30 Posts From People Dealing With The Most Unhinged College Professors

well, what did it say?

Who looks at emails from that long ago?

Let me defend my fellow teachers, we had to make an incredibly quick transition to virtual learning, and the Learning Management system here is not the best for building tests. A good teacher will be checking over this and giving back credit and fixing it for next time.

I took a course last year where instructor had a lot of guest lecturers. The instructor really needs to sit through these lectures, had multiple wrong answers on the final exam but at was at least receptive to hearing the correct answers and updating the results.

How come no one has investigated this AH? Just asking as another instructor in a different field.

This is why using Google Forms for tests is horse manure.

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I understand this is a high school exam, right?

That’s a weird way to say “I have alienated everyone in my life and no longer have to worry about their well being” 🤔

wouldn't it be a bit suspicious if I told him 'my grandfather will die on Thursday Nov 4th at 6 p.m.

Dates with celebrities?? What caused that one to get added? I feel there's a story here!!

No exceptions, even Acts of God.

Professors have found that an exceptional amount of grandparent deaths occur during testing periods. Some of the same grandparents have died a number of times. It's an interesting phenomenon that he/she is trying to address and prepare for.

This is even worse given that the student is asking to take the test early for a funeral. No compassion.

What a d!ckhead.

I had and English Lot prof who wanted us to dress "well" for his class. i.e. no loungewear, no tshirts, no tank tops, no jeans...he wanted slacks and dress shirts...and it 95°F and 100% humidity, with a minimum 5 minute walk to that classroom. Needless to say, no one complied. He just so desperately wanted to be English, in tweed, and pretentious attitude...it was sad. My actual English relatives would've laughed themselves silly. Anyway, I read every piece of literature assigned and was still making horrible grades on his quizzes, until one of the other students said to stop doing that and read spark notes...amazing the improvement I made...Then I took American Lit...the difference was night and day, LOVED that prof.

Probably has to do with profs record-keeping/filing system. Quite possibly he did not even read the whole message before responding.

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He is teaching her how to write an e-mail in a professional way. It seems totally correct to me.

HS: you are to call me MR. Jones you NEVER call your teacher by first name! COLLEGE: hello my names Jim and im your professor

🎵 Never gonna give you up 🎵

I'm assuming this requires getting them in the correct order? LOL

I hope he was reported

That’s very shady

Has an english professor who had all romantic Gothic novels on his syllabus, except one random poetry pack that cost $50 for a loose leaf set of cards with poems that his "friend" wrote. It was part of the grade to buy the pack... sleazy scammer... he also graded by how he "felt" and not any rhuberick, nor would provide feedback on the actual writings beyond his personal arbitrary grade percent (so no red pen marks or anything to prove he even read it).

My lecturers on the other hand, told us not to bother buying some of our books as most readings came from online journals. One even put together a free handbook that we could annotate so we didn't have to search online

This is like when I saw an "Irish pub" in Nicaragua that said "Write a positive TripAdvisor review and get a free beer." Ha ha, place was always packed in a country where a bottle of water is more expensive than beer.

A55HOLE

What the 🦆?? It’s Covid, not chickenpox, LOL. Did he get his qualifications from a cereal box?! 🤦‍♀️😂

Why do you have 163 messages??

That’s brave of you to have your teacher as a contact on Messages I would be terrified

I totally agree with this grading philosophy. In our society, you are legally an adult once you turn 18. So college students should stop acting like children. (Full disclosure: I am a retired professor.)

People *want* to be graded on a curve? My university did this back in the 2000s and it sucked. We all got penalized if we all worked hard, and the competition led students to do underhanded things like removing journal articles from library shelves and hiding them so other students couldn't access them. Then when we graduated, we had to compete for jobs and postgraduate opportunities with students from other universities that didn't grade on a curve. The only time I can see the advantage is for students who had their education interrupted by events like the pandemic and are struggling far more than students going through the course at regular times.