Your Worst Professors

[lifesaver]

First Dr. Almarez. Bastard. Tenured, and knew it, so one, he never came to class, always had his TA do it. When he was there (lecture history class; 400+ people) he'd insult the students and call us out if he saw us looking at our watch or drinking a soda. So high school. One time he stops his lecture and calls out a student and the conversation went like this:

"Boy, turn your ball cap around."
"what?"
"I said turn your ball cap around."
"Why?"
"because I dont like it that way"
"Why do you care?"
"Because I have to look at you."
"Not anymore"

kid gets up walks outta class and drops.

Silently, we all cheered for him.

Secondly, I had a prof who tested us on stuff that wasnt on the syllabus. When I challenged her on it in her office, she pulled up her sylabis on her computer and typed. "I reserve the right to test you on anything, and the syllabus is ONLY a guide." Turns back around to me and grins. I shouldda taken her ass to the provost, but I was a dumb ass freshman back then. Didnt know profs had to be accountable (usually).

[skip101]

a prof on my campus started a fight with a student a couple of years ago.. It happend right in a class full of studnets.

[SigmaChiCard]

this regards one of my favorite teachers in high school.

the year after i graduated, my spanish (but is american straight-up) went on a weekend trip to mexico and never came back, got married, had her shit shipped to her, and well...didn't quite get back for mondays lesson.

[tickledpink]

Where to begin, where to begin?

We had one, that was actually a Dept. Head that used to brag that she used to work on the set of a popular 80's show. #1. The show got cancelled ~ that should tell you something. #2. She didn't go on to another show. As the saying goes, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach". Anyway, she was horrible. Her excuse for giving a "B" was "I never give "A's". Pitiful.

Then I had another one, in the same dept. I was sick during my junior year and missed the last part of it. Anyway, when I came back, she gave me my assignments to complete. Now I'm thinking "Hmmm, she sure didn't assign much work during that month, but fine. Whatever". I completed the work, turned it in by the deadline, and she gave me an "F", stating, I didn't complete all of the work. WHen I approached her and the Dept. Head and informed them that I completed the work that was given to me, I was informed "You should have known that couldn't have been all of the work that she had for you and should have taken the initiative to let her know". I took the initiative to take them both to the Vice President of Academic Affairs, who made them give me this supposed work and a new completion date. Needless to say, neither one of them are there any longer.

[juniorgrrl]

Oh, where to start. LSU is "free" for those of us on TOPS and needless to say, I've gotten what I've paid for - NOTHING.

My Visual Basic teacher this semester was nice half the time and rude the other half, depending upon her mood. She stressed "professionalism" but never acted upon it herself. She assigned us a MASSIVE project 2 weeks before the end of the semester. The project was due Dec 3, and I didn't get the grade on it until Wednesday. We all busted our asses to get it done with no time and no help (she didn't know what she was teaching) and she couldn't be bothered to get it graded in time for us to know our grade going into the final (a direct violation of the faculty code of conduct).

Then there was my finance teacher that I mentioned in a previous thread. What an asshole.

At least I made As in both of those classes.

[carnation]

I just thought of a real winner of a philosophy professor I had. He was majorly against the Vietnam War and one day we were sitting in class and armed men in fatigues ran into the classroom screaming, "Get down! Hands over your heads!" Everyone was on the floor and people were screaming and suddenly the men just walked out of the room and the professor intoned, "This is what life is like in Vietnam every day."

[KillarneyRose]

I don't have a "professor" story to share so I will just tell you about an "a$$hole administrator" story instead!

My last semester of college, my roommate was a smoker and she decided to disable the smoke detector in our room. Not the smartest move but I didn't mind that she did it. Well, we forgot to put it together again before we moved out so we were charged $54.75 for the University to have their highly trained staff of smoke detector installers take care of it.

I wrote a check for $27.37 and turned it into the Office of Residence Life thinking that was that, but oh how wrong I was! I moved to New York to start my new job thinking everything was squared with my school account. A few weeks after graduation, my mom started getting phone calls from Pitt for me demanding their one cent that they said I owed them. After the THIRD phone call, I started to get angry and called them and got into it with some lady who worked in the office there who told me my diploma would be withheld if I didn't pay this one cent. I was so mad that I told them what they could do with my diploma but that didn't stop the phone calls and then the letters threatening to block release of my transcript until I paid the one cent! Finally, I got a registered letter from the school telling me that I was about to be reported to a collection agency if I didn't pay up!!!! At that point, I was so upset but I didn't want to risk my credit rating so I wrote out a check for one cent and FedEx'd it to my dear old alma mater.

And THAT, boys and girls, is the last cent the University of Pittsburgh will EVER receive from me. When I make a donation, it goes straight to Delta Zeta.

[Eirene_DGP]

Ok, this past semester, I had the professor from hell for my English Technical communication class (kind of like the BS you did in elem. school of how to make a PB&J sandwhich, but on a much larger scale) She was like a hyperactive child. The upper-level classes only have like 8-12 people and she would come in and demand that everyone look DIRECTLY at her. If your eyes wondered, she would throw a horrible fit. If you missed 1 day she would take it off your final grade. (Never mind the fact that our university allows you 4 days off from each class per semester. UGH!!!! She had some type of mental problem because she would get so excited in class over our assignment that she would jump up and down waving her arms. We all just sat there looking at her like she was from Mars!

[DGPhoney]

Dr. Bagwell, grrr chemostry professor. He SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!! So badly like he didn't teach at all, how can u not teach a chemistry class!!!!!!! He would repeat one thing like 500 times(no not literally) so that we wouldn;t get to any other topic in class
so we were always behind, and then for our final he said it wasn't cummalitive, and then the day of the exam is said oh "by the way kids, I changed my mind and it is now cummalitive" so no one was prepared!!!! GRRRR! What an A$$
DGPhoney~

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by 33girl
My "fave" was the econ prof who talked like Elmer Fudd. I will never forget hearing him talk about "equiwibbwium."

CTFU. CTFU. CTFU.
Did he wook wike Elmer Fudd, too?

[AchtungBaby80]

Ahh, this discussion reminds me of this dimwit I had for Accounting this past semester. The man could have been forty or eighty, I couldn't tell, but he looked like that cartoon dog called Droopy, you know what I'm talking about? Well, old Droopy had a sort of half Southern/half lisp way of speaking, and my dog has better penmanship than he did. At the beginning of the semester, he decided that he didn't want to give us quizzes and homework (which would help boost our grades a little) because it was too much trouble, so our final grade was determined by our test scores. Which might have been OK if 1) the other sections weren't given homework and quizzes, and if 2) he knew how to teach the material so that we didn't flunk the tests. He didn't, and I flunked the first two tests. I managed to study like all hell and end up with a C in the class, but it was a constant struggle. He was also extremely rude and liked to single students out when everyone came in to take our common-hour exams. I guess he thought he was just too funny, but I wanted to bop him on the head.

[KappaStargirl]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose


Finally, I got a registered letter from the school telling me that I was about to be reported to a collection agency if I didn't pay up!!!! At that point, I was so upset but I didn't want to risk my credit rating so I wrote out a check for one cent and FedEx'd it to my dear old alma mater.

And THAT, boys and girls, is the last cent the University of Pittsburgh will EVER receive from me. When I make a donation, it goes straight to Delta Zeta.

Ah, the constant joy of Pitt. If it makes you feel any better, it cost them a LOT more to process the check than the check is worth, so you sort of came out on top.

[CutiePie2000]

www.teacherreview.com

You can actually check to see if your professors on are here!

[AlphaChiS2K]

Also, www.gradeyourprof.com has a lot of good resources, not just on professors but on overall aspects of student life, like "Administration Support of Greek Life." You can also post advice for incoming freshmen and read comments from current and past students.

[AggieDZ]

You can also check out a site that was developed by two Aggie graduates..... www.pickaprof.com