Most Hated Teacher

[Jim Raynor]

Just about everyone of my professors and TAs at the Rutgers School of Engineering. It's really shocking that there are so many crappy teachers at what is considered to be a pretty good school.

All my Intro to Fortran teacher has taught us in the 2 months of class are binary numbers, damned if I know what the hell that actually has to do with actual programming. The week before the exam he told us the topics that would be on the test, assuring us that it would be all that we would have to know. When the test finally came, it was nothing like he said it would be, and included stuff about 10 chapters ahead of where we actually were, Not surprisingly most people failed. Our TA was pretty cool and tried to stick up for us, and after a little talk with the professor he got him to admit that he basically screwed us.

There are 2 TAs for my Calculus recitation, which is a complete waste of an hour and a half of everyone's time. One of the TAs doesn't speak a word of English, and all he does is write out the solutions to homework problems without being able to explain any of them. This usually takes about a half hour, after which he hands out worksheets and tells the students to work and teach themselves. At least he tries to do something. The other TA CAN speak English, but just sits at the side of the room the whole time without talking or doing anything useful.

My Chemistry professor just drones on and on during his boring lectures about the most insignificant details that won't even be on the exam, without covering anything that's actually important. The class average for the mid-term was 38. We got a 30 point curve boost, and although I'm glad for any boost in my crappy grade I think it's complete bullshit that they're passing off hundreds of students who were never even taught the material. For example a 55 was a B and 70 was an A+.

I also have the chemistry lab instructor from hell. He speaks with an extremely thick Indian accent which makes him sound unintelligible most of the time. Despite that, he LOVES to talk all the time, and actually thinks everyone understands him while he takes about 20 minutes to explain the instructions.

[haas mark]

I also forgot to mention my Math123 professor....he overcompliates everything, cannot abbreviate anything, and openl;y admits that he does not know what he's doing. How would YOU like him for a professor...?

[Evil Sadistic Bastard]

You sure hate a lot of your teachers, verilon.

[haas mark]

You sure hate a lot of your teachers, verilon.

No, just those three. I actually like most of the rest of them, THen there are those that I'm indifferent to.

[Wicked Pilot]

Tied for first place is Mrs Ashe and Mrs Williams. I had them both during 10th grade for Geometry and Biology. Both of them were evil indifferent bitches. Needless to say, I failed both their classes by wide margins. The negative impact on my GPA from those two classes destroyed any hope for a nomination to the Air Force Academy. I later the next year retook those classes with new teachers at a new school, and aced them effortlessly.

[Kuja]

Mrs. Leone, who taught math my senior year. She had a monotone voice, a warm classroom, and boring lessons. I couldn't stay awake in her class, and I didn't get the math. I got a 40% in that class, but since I'd aready been accepted at KSU, I didn't really give a flying fuck.

[haas mark]

Mrs. Leone, who taught math my senior year. She had a monotone voice, a warm classroom, and boring lessons. I couldn't stay awake in her class, and I didn't get the math. I got a 40% in that class, but since I'd aready been accepted at KSU, I didn't really give a flying fuck.

Monotone teachers suck (another reason to hat my math prof). My JAVA prof is the same way...except oin one of the two most comfortable classrooms on campus. Perfect environment for sleeping. Results: I don't get all the JAVA that I should...But at least she *tries* to spice things up with colored slide shows...

No, I don't hate her....I'm indifferent...

[Dalton]

Oddly enough I've never really had teachers that were *that* bad. And the majority of the teachers in my major are positively amazing. I feel I got lucky.

[Evil Sadistic Bastard]

Most teachers are nice. Like my Chemistry teacher in middle school. She was like another mom.

[haas mark]

Most chemistry teachers are liek that, I find.

[TrailerParkJawa]

I dont remember his name, but I took a Pascal class from him my first year out of high school. It was at a community college in Hayward.

This guy looked like a rat. Im serious, pointy nose, beady eyes. If you were stuck on something, his only response ever was "use the debugger"


I dont remember really disliking anyone at SJSU. My chem lab teacher caught his hand on fire in class, that was funny. We got to go home early that day.

[weemadando]

A maths teacher that was a fundamentalist christian and a moron to boot (yes, he would have been st00pid even IF he wasn't a fundie). Repeatedly prayed in class for the salvation of these children who had no morals or values. Would yell at the class, sentence everyone to detentions (which would be overturned) and generally be a moron. My grades fell STEEPLY in maths following that class.

This guy also taught computer science. Allegedly. First class he couldn't even work out how to turn the computer on. And this was a goddamn PC with a big RED button labelled "power" at the front. He was a tech supports nightmare and he was supposed to be teaching US about computers?

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

Today, my English teacher took 5 points of one of my papers because I turned it in a day late, because I was on vacation an couldn't turn it in on the date it was due! Should I let my grade drop 2 letters for tihs assignment, or should I stand up to this ?

[Ted]

I had a shop teacher in Gr8 that would clip his toenails on his desk while telling stories about his kids. Needless to say, we never had lunch on those days.

[oberon]

Once I had a CC welding teacher who was a total prick. He was really macho, but I think he was a repressed closet fag. <Seinfeld>Not that there's anything wrong with that!</S> But he used it like a weird weapon. I think much of his behavior was sexual harassment. Like, instead of saying "excuse me", one time he came up behind me and just put his hands on my hips and squeezed in between me and a workbench. It was always with that kind of thing. Once my dad called the shop to tell me he was giving me a ride, and this teacher yells, "HEY, YOUR BOYFRIEND'S ON THE PHONE" across the shop. He was like, fixated on the gay thing.

So this one time I got in a fight and spent the night in jail, which caused me to miss his welding class the following day. The day after that, I told him why I wasn't there and he just went crazy, calling me a fag pussy and all this shit. This was before anyone else had shown up, so we were alone in a classroom. So I said something like "What the fuck is wrong with you, you wanna fight? Let's go" and he snorted something about "Yeah, bec you have a pistol" That had come from previous conversations, you know when you first meet someone and start talking to them in the hope that they turn out sort of human--no dice. I told him a hobby and he held it against me. So anyway, I said "I don't have one on me now". His response was just to shrug and walk into the workshop and start acting busy. The best part was his name: Roger Squirrel. Whenever he walked into class, I wanted to bust out with a Mickey Mouse voice, "HI BOYS AND GIRLS! I'M ROGER SQUIRREL!"

OK, ha ha hee hee hoe, one more. At MTU we had a guy, Robert Mount, who taught physics. He held no doctorate--he had been on Lecturer status since he started there, and had never advanced. He retired this way. He was a sad little dork. He was short and bald and had a kind of eunuch smoker's voice--high pitched, raspy, and mono. He sounded like nails scraping a blackboard. Anyway, he taught first year physics, and I got a zero on a quiz bec I forgot to put my units in. My answer was numerically correct, but I had forgotten units, and he didn't even give partial credit. Now, I can see being tougher on more advanced students, who should know better and are actually working on problems in research, but this was nowhere near that level. We got the quiz back, I saw the 0, and asked "you don't give partial credit?" and he started prattling on abt "what if you were on a team building a bridge and you made a mistake and the bridge fell down? Would you ask for partial credit?" I was like "this is first term physics, and this isn't a bridge design" as I walked out on his class.

So, he retired. For some reason the U gave him the honor of a retirement banquet, alongside one of the better physics profs, so he got to ride the coattails of someone who really was deserving of respect. The lecture hall where the banquet was to take place was in use by a math student defending his PhD, and the room had been reserved for that before the banquet. Mount walks in 5 minutes early, sees the graduate defense, and sits in. Close to the time, Mount sees that the defense is going to run a few minutes over, and even though no-one has showed up for his retirement--and even if they had, they would naturally play it cool for the defense, maybe watch it quietly to see what the new PhD was investigating--Mount goes ballistic and actually gets in a yelling match with the guy's advisor. It ruined the guy's speech, so he had to wind it up quickly, so this asshole could have his stupid cake or whatever.

Uh. Exciting, huh?[/code]

[haas mark]

Ouch. What an asshole...