Worst professor I've ever had/seen/heard of

[gorcorps]

I'm a metallurgical engineering student, so the concepts and math are the most important thing. Our spelling/grammar takes a back seat to everything else. BUT this transport teacher decides a good lab assignment would be to correct HIS spelling mistakes and numbers for a paper he gave us a while back. Thing is, we've been using this sheet for weeks assuming it was right. NOPE! He made it wrong "on purpose" with the lab assignment in mind, but didn't tell us it was wrong so we went along our merry way getting points taken off for using his faulty information and not understanding why.

First quiz grades got back... and I got points taken off for defining 'gradient' as:
-quatity per unit distance
instead of:
-quanity "per unit distance"
That's right, I forgot the quotes. Oh my! I'm SOOO SORRY I didn't memorize ver batim what your definition sheet said. I thought knowing the information was enough but apparently the quotes make all the difference. :roll:

For the quiz today he emailed us yesterday saying it'd be 2 questions long, and specified the topics we'd be quizzed on. We took the quiz, and low and behold it was 3 questions long, of which 2 questions weren't the topics told. He claims it was an experiment to see what and how students study. What? This is my class pal, I paid for it. I want to be taught, not be a guinea pig for your social science BS. Oh, you're surprised that the students didn't study the topics you told them they didn't need to?

Fuck you, you 78 year old Argentinian bastard. Die in a fire, choke on a bottlecap, or just stop teaching. Frankly I don't care what happens to you as long as it ends with never seeing you again.

/rant

 

[StevenYoo]

is there no committee you can report him to?

 

[Crono]

Protest to department head. A professor shouldn't be allowed to put stuff on a test that isn't covered in the course lectures or material. And its even worse that he changed/lied about the content of test. Get everyone to come with you to department head if necessary.

 

[Anubis]

:thumbsup:

 

[Vehemence]

Now, print that out and leave it on his desk

 

[DomS]

protest to the department head. You're paying THEM, you're the customer.

 

[shortylickens]

Hate to crap on college but there are so many rotten professors out there its kinda scary.

They can do whatever the hell they want (including "nothing") and never have to worry about losing their jobs.

 

[Tiamat]

wow, sucks. Go as a class to the department head and have a meeting.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
Hate to crap on college but there are so many rotten professors out there its kinda scary.

They can do whatever the hell they want (including "nothing") and never have to worry about losing their jobs.

thats only if they have tenure
not all of them have it

 

[gorcorps]

We've been to the department head, many times. And he has spoken to this guy but since this prof is 78 years old and does research, he has no intention of changing his ways. I hear the class is curved to all hell in the end but we have no idea how much. And the other classes says he doesn't do a constant curve, but a case by case basis. So if you didn't please him you won't get the curve that somebody he knows does.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

We have an Ombudsman that will usually take care of this for students. Search your schools website and shoot an email off. Ours is very helpful.

Our Ombudsman deals with issues students have with the university, whether it's professors, departments what ever, they'll let you know what they can do.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
We've been to the department head, many times. And he has spoken to this guy but since this prof is 78 years old and does research, he has no intention of changing his ways. I hear the class is curved to all hell in the end but we have no idea how much. And the other classes says he doesn't do a constant curve, but a case by case basis. So if you didn't please him you won't get the curve that somebody he knows does.

So don't be a dickhead and play the game.

 

[wheresmybacon]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
is there no committee you can report him to?

if he's tenured he pretty much as to rape the OP in broad daylight in the student union building to even get in trouble

 

[bobross419]

Use his university email to sign up for a ton of mail services, post it up on every message board you can, and just make his life hell all around. Its petty, but it sounds like all your other options might be out.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: bobross419
Use his university email to sign up for a ton of mail services, post it up on every message board you can, and just make his life hell all around. Its petty, but it sounds like all your other options might be out.

A professor like that probably doesn't even bother to log into his email.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
We've been to the department head, many times. And he has spoken to this guy but since this prof is 78 years old and does research, he has no intention of changing his ways. I hear the class is curved to all hell in the end but we have no idea how much. And the other classes says he doesn't do a constant curve, but a case by case basis. So if you didn't please him you won't get the curve that somebody he knows does.

Make a bigger ruckus, then. Get people from all his classes to complain. If the situation is that unfair (and it is), the school will cave in to that much pressure from its students. Otherwise, you have no other choice except to just accept the situation and over prepare for his quizzes.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

-quatity per unit distance
instead of:
-quanity "per unit distance"

Boy, spelling really does take a back seat for you.

 

[Baked]

If he's tenure, the department head, dean, committee, will just tell you to fuck off. At 78, he probably is. OP, you need to just suck it up or drop the class.

 

[imported_DocHolliday]

Originally posted by: dNor
Now, print that out and leave it on his desk

Solution FTW!

 

[nerp]

I had a teacher who on the first day of class handed out a test with a bunch of questions on it. He said as he passed it out "be sure to read every question before answering ANY question."

The last question read: write your name on the top of the test and hand it in without answering ANY questions.

Thought it was pretty dumb.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: DomS
protest to the department head. You're paying THEM, you're the customer.

BS. This is a delusion that most students seem to have. In a university setting, the board of regents are the owners, corporate donors are the customers and students are the product. The department head is a mid level floor manager. When you protest, it's little different from the chickens protesting to Tyson. You're locked in. Way too much of a PITA to move across the state to a different school, you might as well be in a cage.
/Jaded.

 

[acheron]

Originally posted by: nerp
I had a teacher who on the first day of class handed out a test with a bunch of questions on it. He said as he passed it out "be sure to read every question before answering ANY question."

The last question read: write your name on the top of the test and hand it in without answering ANY questions.

Thought it was pretty dumb.

A teacher did this to me too. In second grade. I found it kind of amusing then. If you were much older than that though, then yeah I would agree that it was pretty dumb.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
We've been to the department head, many times. And he has spoken to this guy but since this prof is 78 years old and does research, he has no intention of changing his ways. I hear the class is curved to all hell in the end but we have no idea how much. And the other classes says he doesn't do a constant curve, but a case by case basis. So if you didn't please him you won't get the curve that somebody he knows does.

I had a prof who presented us with a similar clusterfuck. A bunch of folks went to the dept. head complaining that ~ 80% of the class was about to fail because of this retard. Didn't work. So I went to the Dean of Students and asked them why I was being harassed like this after three years of slogging through college. In less than two weeks, our section and our TAs were absorbed into another section under another professor, our homework grades were exempted and our test grades were curved.

 

[manowar821]

That IS a load of crap! D:

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: gorcorps
We've been to the department head, many times. And he has spoken to this guy but since this prof is 78 years old and does research, he has no intention of changing his ways. I hear the class is curved to all hell in the end but we have no idea how much. And the other classes says he doesn't do a constant curve, but a case by case basis. So if you didn't please him you won't get the curve that somebody he knows does.

I had a prof who presented us with a similar clusterfuck. A bunch of folks went to the dept. head complaining that ~ 80% of the class was about to fail because of this retard. Didn't work. So I went to the Dean of Students and asked them why I was being harassed like this after three years of slogging through college. In less than two weeks, our section and our TAs were absorbed into another section under another professor, our homework grades were exempted and our test grades were curved.

^this.

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