Worst professor

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2003-02-07 08:13pm

Who is the worst professor that you have had? Mine was a trig prof; she needed her students help her solve problems, and her rebuttals to most comments conflicting with her solutions was "na-ah!".

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-02-07 08:22pm

My worst proffesor was an art teacher (I refuse to ackknowledge him as a proper proffessor) I had last year for Basic Design Two. He was, in short a flaky nutso art person. He was the stereotypical flaky artist. Fucking nut case.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-07 08:36pm

Well, last semester I had a professor that was doing some anti-war rally crap. She was incredibly liberal...

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-07 08:43pm

NF_Utvol wrote:Well, last semester I had a professor that was doing some anti-war rally crap. She was incredibly liberal...

Being liberal dfoes not a bad teacher make.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-07 10:08pm

i´m sure he´s a good architect but last week we had a pre presentation in which the professor is supposed to tell the students what´s good and what´s bad about their project. he looked at every single piece of work and called every single piece of work ugly, scandalous and a whole bunch of other negative things.
i was told that he does that every year.
so what´s the point of this pre presentation. his statement doesnt mean shit if he calls everything crap.
fucking dumbass!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-07 10:18pm

I had a political science professor two years ago who was a hardcore leftist. This in itself is annoying, if forgivable. The problem came from the fact the ONLY right answer to any subjective question was the answer the leftist would give. Worse, there was a group of College Democratic-Socialists (I shit you not) in the class who every 15 minutes or so would spit out Noam Chomsky's dick and brown nose to him, and he obviously preened every time they did. And to top it all off, he was an idiot. He was a Ph.D. spouting patently false information.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-07 10:24pm

weemadando wrote:
NF_Utvol wrote:Well, last semester I had a professor that was doing some anti-war rally crap. She was incredibly liberal...
Being liberal dfoes not a bad teacher make.

No, it doesn't. I had an outstanding legal studies teacher last semester who was clearly of a liberal political persuasion, but she never really brought it into her teaching. She taught law, and she taught it damn well.

The problem is when they start shoving their bullshit down your throat and it compromises their teaching. It's not unique to liberals, I admit (although conservative professors are more than a rarity, at least in America).

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-07 10:30pm

Durran Korr wrote:
weemadando wrote:
NF_Utvol wrote:Well, last semester I had a professor that was doing some anti-war rally crap. She was incredibly liberal...
Being liberal dfoes not a bad teacher make.
(although conservative professors are more than a rarity, at least in America).

yes, because professors are usually intelligent people.

*ducks*

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-07 10:32pm

With the noted exception of business professors. They tend to be on average, more conservative than the average liberal arts fucktard (oops!).

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-07 10:50pm

weemadando wrote:
NF_Utvol wrote:Well, last semester I had a professor that was doing some anti-war rally crap. She was incredibly liberal...
Being liberal dfoes not a bad teacher make.

No, it doesn't, but when that teacher tries to foist off her views on you, then that is bad.

This said professor not only tried to foist off her views on us, she tried to teach it as the material. Everything she said she stated it as though it was the final fact on it. The professor should tell the base, unbiased facts and let the students come to their own decisions, not tell her views as though they were fact and expect us to follow right along.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-07 10:55pm

NF_Utvol wrote:
No, it doesn't, but when that teacher tries to foist off her views on you, then that is bad.

This said professor not only tried to foist off her views on us, she tried to teach it as the material. Everything she said she stated it as though it was the final fact on it. The professor should tell the base, unbiased facts and let the students come to their own decisions, not tell her views as though they were fact and expect us to follow right along.

You gotta learn how to play the game.

One of my polsci teachers was a hardcore feminist. So every essay I made sure to include a significant section regarding feminism and its effect on the issue.

Watch your marks climb skyward.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-07 11:07pm

weemadando wrote:
NF_Utvol wrote:
No, it doesn't, but when that teacher tries to foist off her views on you, then that is bad.

This said professor not only tried to foist off her views on us, she tried to teach it as the material. Everything she said she stated it as though it was the final fact on it. The professor should tell the base, unbiased facts and let the students come to their own decisions, not tell her views as though they were fact and expect us to follow right along.
You gotta learn how to play the game.

One of my polsci teachers was a hardcore feminist. So every essay I made sure to include a significant section regarding feminism and its effect on the issue.

Watch your marks climb skyward.

That acutally works pretty well, LOL. I remember I had to seriously whore myself out (ideologically) to do well on my AP US History and AP Government Exam.

Frank_Scenario · Post by **Frank_Scenario** » 2003-02-07 11:36pm

I had a professor for calculus and linear algebra who was not a "bad" professor, but just desperate for the approval of the students. What he forgot is that no student will give you approval when they are a bunch of freshmen at their first class at 9:00 in the morning.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-07 11:45pm

Well, I'm going to ignore the topic and post about a damn good proffessor....

The one I had for CAD (Computer Architecture & Design), CO (Computer Organisation) LLP (Low Level Programming) and a few other comp things was damn good...I actually passed the work on his course without answering correctly on the questions....at least not from a traditional standpoint....since I write fast, for the multiple choice exams and work I picked the one "joke" answer in each and added a note that explained why it was right....since he's got a nice twisted sense of humor I got credit for the answers.....

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-02-07 11:52pm

Keevan_Colton wrote:Well, I'm going to ignore the topic and post about a damn good proffessor...

Yay! I was tempted to start a thread on this, but would have broken down into a sobbing mess of a woman if no one had any stories to share.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-07 11:56pm

Zaia wrote:
Keevan_Colton wrote:Well, I'm going to ignore the topic and post about a damn good proffessor...
Yay! I was tempted to start a thread on this, but would have broken down into a sobbing mess of a woman if no one had any stories to share.

I dont have any stories of bad professors....the only people who were bad were too dumb to be actual professors and I simply didnt turn up to what they taught....problem solved

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-02-08 12:10am

Had a Music History professor that would grade your papers on weight... LITTERALLY. Got suspended for a year for that.

And the assistant dean of the School of Music... you had to kiss his ass, ie. do anything he asked, in order to get anywhere in the school. Prick.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-08 12:13am

Kelly Antilles wrote:Had a Music History professor that would grade your papers on weight... LITTERALLY. Got suspended for a year for that.

And the assistant dean of the School of Music... you had to kiss his ass, ie. do anything he asked, in order to get anywhere in the school. Prick.

LOL, Kelly. That's music school for you.

Here at UGA we had to get rid of the Director of Bands for 1) fucking the G.A. 2) engaging in favoritism to rival the Kennedy family (you had to SERIOUSLY kiss this guy's ass) and 3) diverting University funds to buy booze.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-02-08 12:21am

My Intro to Philosophy teacher often used the argument that Newtonian physics had supposedly been canceled out/overridden by the weird freaky unpridictability of Einstein's realativity, in order to make Science looks as incompetent as philosophy. Too bad he also used the term 'electromegneticism' once.

Sure, I respected the guy, but dammit, he sure did enjoy fighting wihtout arms.

My sister had a (iirc) African History professor in her senior year that insisted she write her final paper on (get this) How European Imperialism (18th-19th centuries) Caused the downfall of the great African kingdoms (12th-13th centuries). He didn't seem to happy about it, though I don't think it was because he asked her to do a whole damn paper on a 500-year contradiction of history. I'm pretty sure she ended up getting an A- on it, which wouldn't have been too bad if it hadn't knocked her GPA from 4.0 to 3.9, If I remember correctly.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-08 12:24am

Darth Utsanomiko wrote:My Intro to Philosophy teacher often used the argument that Newtonian physics had supposedly been canceled out/overridden by the weird freaky unpridictability of Einstein's realativity, in order to make Science looks as incompetent as philosophy. Too bad he also used the term 'electromegneticism' once. Sure, I respected the guy, but dammit, he sure did enjoy fighting wihtout arms.

My sister had a (iirc) African History professor in her senior year that insisted she write her final paper on (get this) How European Imperialism (18th-19th centuries) Caused the downfall of the great African kingdoms (12th-13th centuries). He didn't seem to happy about it, though I don't think it was because he asked her to do a whole damn paper on a 500-year contradiction of history. I'm pretty sure she ended up getting an A- on it, which wouldn't have been too bad if it hadn't knocked her GPA from 4.0 to 3.9, If I remember correctly.

Ah, Afrocentrism. What creationism is to science, afrocentrism is to history.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-02-08 12:28am

I'm pretty sure this guy was far past that. (Again, IIRC) He would deny that anything bad ever happened in Africa due to Africans, including wars that happened before anyone else showed up.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-08 01:38am

I've definitely had more good professors than bad on the college level (maybe that's why I'm paying so goddamn much to go here). One of my favorites was actually a hardcore liberation theology leftist who also happened to be my advisor...she liked me because she could count on me to hold up the discussion in class (when you're the only conservative in a class full of hippies who sleep on the quad to protest homelessness, you end up talking a lot, sometimes at considerable volume).

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-02-08 01:41am

This isn't a 'professor' but last year I had a history teacher who would jump up on a desk and act out every battle we learned about. Damned annoying.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-08 01:42am

HemlockGrey wrote:This isn't a 'professor' but last year I had a history teacher who would jump up on a desk and act out every battle we learned about. Damned annoying.

One person Civil War reenactments? Hehe, I can only imagine.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-02-08 01:46am

Imagine the Battle of Zama being reanacted by a middle-aged, fat, balding man.