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We might idolize our university and college professors as authority figures who put the pursuit of knowledge and education above everything else. However, they’re as human as you or I. From time to time, these Ravenclaws take a break from unearthing the secrets of the Universe and show their gossip-loving Muggle sides in public. Or rather—online. Because the way that some students act makes it hard not to share.

Redditor Redmambo_no6 asked the professors of Reddit to share their stories about the students they encountered that made them shake their heads and wonder how they ever graduated. And, wow, some of these have made our eyebrows shoot into our hairlines. We’d say they’re unbelievable, but we’ve met students like this ourselves. Heck, we’ve been in some of these situations.

We’d love to hear which of these posts you liked the most. Be sure to slap the ‘upvote’ button and leave us a comment so we know! Now, let’s charge head forth into the weird land of (un)education.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I worked with students in a class that was supposed to prepare them for real life. Things like making resumes, finance, etc. Part of the class was job interviews. One of the stress questions often asked in interviews is, "What's your biggest weakness?" I always told the students to have something prepared for that because the only wrong answer is, "I don't have any weaknesses."

So I'm doing mock interviews and I get to this guy and throw out that question. Without missing a beat, he says, "I steal sometimes."

I now tell my students that there are two wrong answers.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd go with three wrong answers . . . nobody, and I mean *nobody* is going to believe "I just work too hard" as your greatest weakness.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors Student handed in a 1-page essay of complete gibberish. Like, utter stream-of-consciousness of a gerbil on LSD kind of garbage.

After receiving an F on this assignment, this muffin had the audacity to come to my office hour and demand that I explain this grade to them. After I walked them through their river of word-garbage, they tried to tell me that I just didn't understand their writing because I am not an English native speaker.

First time I almost kicked somebody out of my office.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"You do not understand because it is too complex for you". It takes a lot of courage to say that straight into your teacher's face... And also some stupidity.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I taught English as a Second Language at a community college for a decade. My colleagues and I were pretty tough on the academics, but it paid off when our students started regular classes. Often I ran into my former students around campus & asked them how things were going. I lost count of the number of times they expressed disbelief at how badly their native-speaking American classmates were at writing sentences, doing math, and giving presentations in front of a group.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why it's so important to properly learn and correctly use both math and grammar, folks.

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The redditor’s thread got 6.5k upvotes and over 3k comments. This goes to show just how many university and college professors there really are browsing Reddit and other similar sights. This might just change how you view your own professors in the future: after all, you might be fans of the same online communities!

The anonymity that Reddit provides means that the professors can share their stories pretty much without any chance of others finding out who they are. It also lets these educators vent about their students without exposing their identities either. It’s a win-win for everyone, including online users who get to grab some popcorn and absorb all of these entertaining tales.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I once got an exam essay that mentioned how much Mandela hated the Jews. After scratching my head for a bit and wondering if I’d missed some obvious signs of his anti-Semitism I realized she meant Mengele. As in Josef Mengele, the Nazi “Angel of Death.” Hard to think of a worse person she could’ve confused him for.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors My wife has had multiple students who are fundamentally technologically illiterate. Numerous students have had no idea how to use Word or Excel--including one who used their email as a word processor (the University provides students with Office). There have also been students who struggle with installing programs on computers. What's disconcerting is it's becoming an increasingly common issue--as an older millennial, the idea that kids are becoming less technologically proficient is so bizarre.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors Once had identical twin sisters who turned in identical essays. Both were directly plagiarized from a Google search and received identical zeroes.

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I’ve been a student and I’ve seen my fair share of coursemates and professors. Some educators were (and still are) so magnificent that I miss their lectures like Harry Potter misses Quidditch. They’re the people who still make me consider doing my PhD sometime in the future. Meanwhile, others were petty, bureaucratic, and concerned only about following the curriculum instead of being beacons of knowledge.

However, just like there’s a range of professors, from great to gruesome, there’s a spectrum for students, too. On one side we have young adults who are diligent, ambitious, and see education as a gateway to bettering themselves into veritable giants of intelligence. On the other side, we’ll find the slobs, the endless party-goes, and the cheaters who want the diploma without the hard work. It’s the eternal debate between doing things the right way vs. doing them the easy way.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I had a girl come in with a research paper bibliography that listed "my mom" as a source several times.
When I pressed, she told me her mom looked up everything and sent it to her and she just...put it in the paper. She told me she had always done it that way.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s sweet, but I also hope her mom knows how to Google credible sources.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors A friend who taught in the politics department received a paper about ‘gorilla’ warfare in South America. It was so poorly written she couldn’t tell if it was a typo, or if they genuinely thought Colombia had been overrun by a Planet of the Apes style revolution.

This was in the UK and English was the student’s first language.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors One student wrote in a discussion board about Lord of the Flies, 'I like how they saved all the flies. That was my favorite part.' If you've read the book, you can guess the look on my face.

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Being a bad student is as easy as gobbling down a greasy kebab or slice of pizza after a fun night out. Stepping up, taking charge, and being a good student is much, much harder, however. It’s less about getting good grades and more about who you are as a person and your attitude towards hardship.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I had a student include numerous emojis in a term paper.

A different student came to my office a week after the final, and asked me why she had failed the course. She hadn’t turned in a single assignment, or written the final.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the comments so far are about the second student not doing jack sh1t. I'm still tickled over the emoji student!! :p

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I had a student put in their presentation, 'Women's suffrage has destroyed the American family structure,' and 'feminism has turned women away from their naturally obedient nature.'

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors My dad taught junior college biology and A&P, and at times zoology and botany, for 25 years. He has soooooo many stories, from multiple people showing up with roadkill for him to identify, asking advice on growing weed and shrooms, and thinking he was a medical doctor. The one that sticks out to me was a poor girl who lingered after class to ask "if pregnancy tests can ever be wrong, because I took a bunch this morning". He explained about human growth hormone and told her false negatives are possible, but not false positives. He said her face just kept falling as it slowly dawned on her. She told him, "three were negative". He asked if any were positive and she said yeah... he asked how many and she said, "Twelve... so... you're saying... it's not possible that I'm NOT pregnant?" He was like, "Sorry honey, unfortunately yes, that's what I'm saying. You need to go see a doctor". She came back a couple semesters later and let my dad meet her very adorable baby.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

False positives do exist, but they can indicate certain medical conditions.

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You’ve got a paper due in a month. What do you do? Do you put it off until literally the last moment, working through the night and pounding energy drink after energy drink, only to turn the paper in ten minutes before the deadline? Or do you get started right away, getting to grips with the issues, tackling the problems, and handing it in early so it doesn’t weigh on your mind? It’s everyday choices that draw the line between a good and bad student.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I had a football player in class, and he could barely write on the sentence-level. I think he had just never been expected to learn how to write since he was an athlete. When he failed his first paper, he came to me and asked how to improve. We agreed that he’d come to my office hours, and we would work through the process of writing a research paper together. Y’all, this kid worked so hard. Every week he’d show up, and we’d talk about how to write an intro paragraph or how to build evidence in the body of a paper, etc. He wasn’t going to get an A in my class or anything, but he was definitely on track for a C- (with a little extra recognition for how hard he worked all semester).

When he turned in his final paper, he had SIGNIFICANTLY improved over his previous paper. I pulled him aside and asked him about his process this time around. With absolutely no guile, he told me that he told his brother what he wanted to say, and his brother wrote it down for him.

I was bound by the Honors Council and a sense of duty to my other students to do what I saw as the ethical thing, which was to fail him, but I do think about him sometimes and that was 20 years ago. He tripped at the very last step.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a shame and maybe down to a lack of self confidence on the student's part.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors One student wrote a paper about the causes of the Salem Witch Trials. She sided with the accusers because she'd 'seen some stuff,' clearly not understanding the assignment.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I was a graduate instructor for a scientific writing class, where students were trained in how to consume and report on research in the form of a literature review. One student kept quiet the whole semester and declined help when I reached out to him periodically throughout.

His term paper came in with the rest, but it was…uh…markedly different. He had written 20 pages on why science was a tool of the devil, complete with quotes from the Bible, and didn’t even format the paper the way I had been teaching students all semester. Included in the paper was a snippet of an interview he conducted with his pastor.

I gave a failing grade on the paper and recommended to him that he change majors to religious studies or something.

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Excelling in your studies requires discipline and having structure in your life. If you wake up whenever you want and only study sporadically, in between parties and meeting up with your friends, you’ll be relying on luck rather than skill.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors My old History of Modern Art prof loves to tell the story about an exam essay featuring the topic of "the male gays" instead of "the male gaze".

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I have taught numerous students who are unable to read for meaning. They can read the words on a page out loud to you, but ask them to explain what they just read, they will repeat the words on the page. Our country's education system is very broken.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors Teaching an English subject on academic writing, including the structure and importance of paragraphs, and a student then handed in a first essay that looked more like poetry - one sentence per line.

When queried, she insisted "they don't have paragraphs where I come from".

Turns out she was British...

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The more orderly and less chaotic your schedule, the easier it will be to focus on your studies. Naturally, that means avoiding distractions like having Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter open while you’re supposed to be doing research. Multitasking isn’t as efficient as focusing on one thing at a time because you’ll have your flow broken. (Pssst, this works for everything, not just devouring books and articles for your studies.)

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors Two girls were swapping thoughts on the exam and a asks b who she wrote about. B says ‘I wrote about Lenin’. A says ‘really? I don’t remember him mentioned in the lectures a lot’. B says ‘oh I know but I know a lot about him. My mum is a huge fan of his music.’

She had written about John Lennon. Not Vladimir Lenin, who’s name was clearly printed on the exam paper.

This is the same girl who, while we’re being taught about the Holocaust and shown pictures of dead inmates, said ‘what diet do you think he was on? I want my ribs to show like that’.

We were in a teaching degree, btw.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is called the "genocide diet". But most doctors actually don't approve, and neither do basically decent human beings.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, the genocide diet means you can only eat the following things: water with a potato skin that they tell u is soup. also u get 1 spoonful

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OK, that second part is worrying on the level of that girl probably has an eating disorder.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a student I worked as an English language tour guide at the Concentration Camp Memorial Site in Dachau, Germany for a summer. You won't believe how many times I was asked what Hitler was doing now. This was in 1999. If he hadn't committed suicide, he would have been executed. And even if he had gotten away, he would have been 110 years old at the time. I kept saying, next time I get that question, I'll say he had been in prison for 20 years and was now running a vegetarian restaurant in Nuremberg and offer to give them address - but I never did.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And now you have a clue as to why our public schools produce graduates who cannot read, do not have a clue about history, math is a total mystery and grammar is someone you visit at Christmas or Thanksgiving.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My heart goes out to that poor young woman. She will never think she's beautiful unless she is literally starving. People put you down when you're too heavy but I've been anorexic and I'll take overweight every day and twice on Sunday.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My brother teaches History. He already had a student yawning and doing her nails while watching Nacht und Nebel in class. And that was years ago. It's concerning to see the horror of these things fade into oblivion, and young people confronted to the very pictures of it deeming them not only unreal, but not impressive at all.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was at the Holocaust museum in DC and there was a teenaged girl who was arguing with her father near pictures showing survivors in a recently liberated camp. She insisted the captioning was wrong because these people couldn't have been rescued - they still looked terrible! As though the moment liberators came into the camp people would be plump and healthy and happy again. The mind doth boggle.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh yeah, this diet consist of a lot of nothing and air sandwiches.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ok second part worries me girl please see a therapist or somethin

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perhaps you recommend a change of career path? Maybe volunteering at an animal shelter. That might teach her some compassion, but I despair of her intelligence.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never quite figured out how garbage forms itself into human shape and passes for human on the street.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have to say, the people in my Masters of Education program weren't the sharpest.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is horrible. As a Jew who has (many) relatives who have been brutally tortured and murdered by the nazis. I really hope that kid was not joking. There is nothing to joke about.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Meet a few people who have eating disorders. The mentality is not believable, but it's real.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I used to cover for some of my profs in their intro classes. I thought it was ridiculous, but one of the profs decided she wanted to test her students on the states.

Yes, a map of the states that they just have to fill in the name of the state. The students knew a month in advance and she said they did a lesson on it.

I had to proctor and grade the test 3 times. The international students passed with flying colors just as consistently as the American students epically failed. She kept making them retake it until they, at the very least, made something more than an F.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder about the backstory for college level assignments like this considering this was a test I took in fourth grade.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I used to TA for undergrad organic chem lab courses. Had a... challenging student once who was not great at reading directions or thinking critically. We were setting up an experiment that required GENTLE heating of a volatile solvent. I explicitly told the class, multiple times, “only turn your hot plates up to 2 when heating, these things get very hot.” Maybe 30 minutes later I’m making my rounds through the lab and I pass said guy’s fume hood and notice his reaction is smoking. I look closer and see that all of the liquid in his flask is gone and its just a charred, black smoking mess (which is still heating). I ask, “Student! What’s going on with your reaction??? What’s the temperature set at?!” The guy goes, “oh, I wasn’t sure how hot to heat it, so I just turned the plate all the way up to 10. Is my reaction going to be ok?” No, no man, it’s not going to be ok... he literally boiled the thing dry

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Meanwhile, being a good professor has more to do with how you communicate with people rather than how disciplined and orderly your life is. Even the most brilliant specialist, a true Einstein in their chosen field, will be derided by their students if they’re full of themselves, dismissive of others’ views, and poke fun at their ‘colleagues-in-learning.’

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors There have been disturbingly high numbers of students on a performance based music degree who can't read music. Not musicologists or conceptual composers who could in theory get away with it. No, these were people turning up expecting to study western classical performance.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always felt the same way about guitar tablatures, but to be honest, I haven’t memorized by notes either. Fun fact, my phone doesn’t recognize tablatures as a real word, so is tablature a singular noun? Please lemme know

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors In undergrad I was taking an American history course. Our professor was from Maryland and was probably in her early forties. This kid asked her if she was one of the pearl harbor survivors. He couldn't grasp the fact that she was very much not alive at that time and that Pearl Harbor was not a harbor in Maryland.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My kids keep asking me how stuff was in the Olden Days. I still don't know when these were --- I suppose they keep sliding? It used to be the 19th C, then the Interbellum (1920s--1930s), so now it's when...?

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I was teaching a class about college campuses in the 1960s and 70s centering on protests and activism during that time. The final paper asked the students to take an example from that time period and compare it to a more recent instance of activism on campus.

One student chose to write about instances of Martin Luther King, Jr. visiting college campuses to speak on issues of equality. That's when the student said that he had won the Nobel Prize in Sports and I just had to stop. I reread that paragraph about 10 times before I confirmed with myself that this student did indeed write what I thought they did. The rest of the paper was equally well researched and, needless to say, they did not get a good grade.

On the plus side, Martin Luther King, Jr., sports superstar, has become a running joke among my friends who were around at the time.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But there isn't even a Nobel Prize in Sports, so where did that mistake come from?

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‘Inside Higher Ed’ suggests that educators should look at students as real people and complex individuals instead of a grey and problematic mass that’s full of the new generation’s issues. There’s a lot to be said in favor of treating people as, well, people in all areas of life. Crafting genuine connections with others will always, always trump a purely mechanical approach where every student is seen as interchangeable and a ‘temporary nuisance.’

When a professor sees their students as partners in learning (however cheesy that might sound!), learning becomes a collaboration, an unending brainstorm of ideas, a feedback loop where everyone’s a learner and a teacher at the same time.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I worked at my university writing center and saw a lot of really terrible writing. SO MANY poorly written essays. I really don’t know how you can graduate from high school without at least being able to perform simple tasks like “Point to your thesis statement.”

The whole point of a writing center was to teach students to correct their own work, but there was a direct correlation between how awful a paper was and how likely the student was to throw it at you and say “I’m going to go have lunch. Will you have it fixed in an hour?” then try to leave.

The tutors all got really good at an authoritative, “Stop right there! Sit down. Now let’s talk about how YOU are going to improve YOUR paper.”

The most frustrating papers were the science majors. I could never tell if the paper was terrible or I just wasn’t following the details of their experiment on chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons or whatever.

The absolute worst was the ENGLISH MASTERS DEGREE STUDENT who came in several times with absolute gibberish. To be fair, English was his second language but... are you absolutely sure you do not want to consider a career change, my good sir?

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors One time we had an indigenous guest speaker give a lecture about misrepresentation of First Nations culture in media at my art university. During the Q&A a student MEANT to ask the question “how do you feel about cultural appropriation of imagery from your culture by corporations?” Instead she asked “how do you feel when like H&M sells like... underwear and stuff that has like feathers on it” I have never cringed so hard in my life. The guest speaker had no idea what she was even asking him.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gross overuse of the word "like" when it serves no purpose in a sentence is a crime in itself

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors Professor at a middle of nowhere medium sized state school with a 80-ish% acceptance rate. Had a graduate student who couldn't code for the life of him but was a software engineer at an undisclosed incredibly large aviation company. He couldn't accept that other students who didn't have jobs were better than him and that the people grading him "didn't have jobs". Sent death threats because we failed him on an assignment where his code didn't run.

He complained to the higher ups and got a C.

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However friendly a professor might be, they still have to have authority in the classroom. So if their students are taking advantage of their good nature or trying to pretend they’ve read a text when they clearly haven’t, the educator has to risk being blunt and call them out on this. Politely but firmly. Bluntly but with a knowing smile.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I taught a new remedial algebra class for students who had a non-traditional pre-college experience or who hadn’t taken enough math in high school to take even basic college level math.
An early section on exponents really tripped up one student. When a professor saw his grade, he instructed me to meet with the student to try to help get him on course. Upon reviewing his exam, I realized he had problems with negative numbers. I quickly sketched up a lesson about how exponents worked with negative numbers, but I was floored when his first question was “What are negative numbers?”
I spent an hour and a half working with him to no effect. I’m not even sure he even believed there was such a thing as a negative number.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well... it's a weird idea, if you think about it. Less than nothing. If you have a glass of water, and you empty it, you have zero water...you can't have negative water. If you have temperatures, and you go below 'zero' 'zero' was an arbritary point. In personal banking, it is a change in relationship, from saving to borrowing. If you have five apples, and you give away five apples, you have zero apples. You can't give away more than you had to start with, there are no negative apples. You can promise someone more apples, and have apples you owe someone else, but these are imaginary future apples, and they still aren't negative. I was very confused by negative numbers at about age 8, and the teacher finally explained it as 'numbers moving in the other direction' and we did imaginary steps backwards from the zero line.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors As a college freshman I took Advanced English with a student who didn’t know how to write a research paper or even possibly read (I don’t know). When I realized she didn’t know how to research, I gave her my sources and showed her how to navigate them. The next class when we were supposed to edit each other’s rough drafts. I handed her my paper to edit, she gave it back to me after 10 seconds without reading it and said it was good. She then handed me her “paper” and it was just a list of random dates.

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30 Times College Students Were So Dumb, They Surprised Their Professors I had a student who told me, being 100% serious, that he wouldn’t be presenting on his assigned day because he 'didn’t do the assignment and he’d go the next day.'

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If he'd notified the teacher in advance and politely asked for an extension maybe that would be ok, but to me this seems pretty low-effort and lowkey rude tbh.

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Which of these stories did you enjoy the most, dear Pandas? Are any of you professors? If so, we’d love to hear any similar stories if you’ve got any. Meanwhile, if any of you are students, let us know about the strangest and most ridiculous things your coursemates and your professors have done.