30 Posts From People Dealing With The Most Unhinged College Professors

This is lousy multiple choice test writing. And it seems to me that students who are marked wrong for choosing answers that are identical to them correct answers would be justified in making a complaint about this professor to the academic council, the dean's office, etc.

Maybe this idiot thinks that all illnesses and deaths can be scheduled in advance

I had an English professor who 100% would have done this. Every now and then when I write work emails (12 years after graduation), I still wonder what she would think of them.

lmao u got rickrolled by ur professor

If this is not illegal, it should be. At the least this is unethical.

I hope you shook his hand when you next came to class.

I totally agree, no curves, stand on your own grade.

This is fair, I have had a few bad experiences of being stuck next to someone who smelled really bad during a test. Made it a lot harder to concentrate.

It actually sounds kind of cool. The professor is setting an example by not being discouraged and is showing that it's common for authors to receive rejection letters. This actually seems like a great lesson.

Calculous at one minute per?! Delusional, period.

wtf

I’m guessing the professor also doesn’t have free printing but the burden shouldn’t fall to the students. I blame the university.

??? Now it's better for the class to be doing poorly???

“mY bAd!” bruh

All those browser shortcuts could simply be placed into the Favorites folder

Tbf, professors do not choose the rooms for exams. Usually these are assigned by the registrar's office. It is very probably the case that the professor had never been in this room/auditorium before, and just walked over to check it out the afternoon before the test. He was likely surprised to find out that there were no flip out desk tops attached to the seats. Hopefully he had his TA's scrambling to round up clipboards to hand out.

Gee, I bet that got a huge response..*crickets*.

I had this happen consistently for about 2 months for an English class which was mandatory by curriculum, and it was a double 8am class... The next class was at 10. So I did what any sane person would do and called the office every single day-before to check if they've finally found a substitute for the class the next morning. I also updated my group about it regularly because fk coming in for an 8am class that isn't even held. Edit to add - that office had saved me more times than I can count, I bought them all cake for the day I graduated

"Ethics"

Then hand in your assignments on time 🤷‍♀️

Was English a second language to your Professor of English? This looks like a poor translation into the English language from some other language.

Sorry how is this a negative thing?

Ooh we had this happen too one freezing winter back in 2012, all classes were cancelled except for one - and it was the vice-deans class. Only when the government made it official that no one was to travel unless it was an emergency did he drop the class for the week...

"Yeah I just came into school today and this was here. I don't know how it got here!"

I don't think this is a "please love me" thing. I do, however, believe that there are serious problems with the current student evaluation system in higher education: 1. Firstly, the people doing the evaluating are not experts in the field of education. Nor are they experts in the specialized field of study that the course is in. Yet somehow the system places them in the role of evaluating their professor's expertise in both of these areas. 2. Secondly, the majority of the student evaluators will be generally aware, at the time of performing the evaluation, that they are likely receiving a grade that is less than a "B". Unfortunately there is a tendency for resentment to be expressed as criticism of the teacher. 3. Students are not aware that these evaluations are weighed quite heavily by other faculty when making hiring/firing decisions.

...why?

I had a teacher like this. Apparently if you got full marks then "you wouldn't try anymore because you already succeeded once" so the most you could get in that class was 90%. Anyway, everyone decided that since you couldn't get full marks no matter how hard you worked, no one put in any effort (the average grade became 60%). The teacher was replaced soon after.

Call, don't text if you want an answer right away.

Seems like pettiness is a common denominator amongst professors.

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So you should email her in order to get in writing whether it is 2 or 3 unexcused absences. Right?

Legit question by the professor, no accusations given and a maximum score. Instead of being offended, the writer should be proud of the achievement.

Assholery, just why?!

Good idea to have practice exams, but this scumbag should have just said that in advance

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What if you have a disability?

How distracting.

If you want people to follow directions, make the direction clear. Make the directions non-contradictory.

I would be good with that personally.

I hardly had any professor write anything down, you just had to listen and take notes

I don't see the problem, it's done here all the time

☝️🤓 um actually that’s my staple give me that mark back

This could/should be an ADA issue if there are students with dyslexia.

Needs tech support?

Nope, I agree with the prof. College is different.

Students will use a slightly larger font or spacing to get around the page length requirements.

You're saying that they should be using more than one color of marker, right?

Looks like the rules for excusable absences and rules about video lectures are coming from the higher ups and the prof is hella salty about them too. Like really really wishes the op would go and complain about the decision so the prof can tell their bosses "told you so"

This is definitely a d1ck move. But honestly, I have received unstapled papers that were also unnumbered. More than one of these fell on the the floor in my office and I spent a good 15 minutes trying to put it back in order. When you have 120 papers to read, this is pretty annoying. So, yeah, you're going to get points taken off.

That is probably sorted on "date changed" or something and the application doesn't easily show how you can sort alphabetically. I don't quite blame this on the professor. Also, is this the students view? In the car they might be able themselves to sort their view.

This is good I like it :)

Should there be an apostrophe in "week's"?

Unless you know the size of the seeds, which vary, you can't know the answer here.

Looks normal to me. Have professor's offices gotten tidier over the last 40 years?

Use discord and i agree it could work with how its set up. Video/voice channels, ability to have hidden staff only channel(s) question channels, post assignments n useful links. I can see it work

There is nothing wrong with this. Different fields of study have different citation protocols, and it is crucial that students learn the proper forms for each field. The Chicago Manual of Style is an excellent resource guide for learning about this. You can access it for free online at chicagomanualofstyle.org

I do this too. On pre-lecture quizzes, you could do things BEFORE they are due you know?

I have the feeling that if everybody reacting to it will ady their age, it will explain the answer. I don't see anything strange in the above (55).

You'll survive.