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Bad professor
My Magnetic Fields professor spends nearly half our classtime taking roll, telling us a story about how we need to study and how we absolutely must spend 5 hours minimum, sometimes less, but most likely more, on each class every week. He then proceeded to lecture us on how people actually bought acres on the moon because they thought some advertisement about being able to buy land on the moon was real. He then proceeded to compare our feeble minds with this article. Like a third year engineering student would actually consider purchasing property on the moon, yikes. Anyway he spends at least half the class time telling us how we should be studying hard and learning. He then spends about 20 minutes scribbling seemingly random blather on the board about vector algebra and vector calculus, and about the last 5 minutes of class he'll start an example problem. Everyone with blank faces watches then and a few realize how he completely blew the problem from the beginning, and just as the class bell ends he tells us to finish the problem for homework. Is this normal?
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Comments (18)
Anonymous
complain to the dept
Fortunately I have always had good instructors throughtout my many MANY years of college. This guy sounds like a bit of a nut-case. If it continues, gather up your classmates and schedule a meeting with the head of the department that he is in; if that doesn't bring results then schedule a meeting with one of the deans of the college. If the prof is tenured he might not give a sh*t and just be putting in his time which would be a shame.
he is tenured.
Anonymous
Crazy Prof
You should be studying hydraulic assisted machinery...and get 60 MPG from a typical pickup w/ a V8....
Anonymous
Crazy Prof
You should be studying hydraulic assisted machinery...and get 60 MPG from a typical pickup w/ a V8....
I'd drop him.
If a class started with an instructor calling me feeble-minded, dropping him would be a no-brainer.
I'd stay in.
Get an 'A," then if you see him public after the term, tell him he's a dumb shit.
This is perfectly normal. Hence the saying "people who can't do, teach." There are few exceptions.
skip classes, study at ur room! save time! i had one like that, did well by ignoring his class! nonsense gets you to sad places.
Best thing is to finish the class, earn credit and when arranging your scedule next time, work around this professor, hoping never to see him again. In the future, if he is the only one who teaches a class in your program, consider taking the class off campus for credit, perhaps during the recess at another school if possible. I always scheduled around the worst professors and ask around who is "good" and who is "bad". Know your teachers, the bad ones know they are bad, and they do not care what others think for the most part. Just my experience.
If its a class where attendance counts, set an alarm for the last five minutes of class, then sleep through the first part of the class and wake up in time to get your homework assignment.
By the way the five hours of studying per class is crap.
try offering him sex for good grades
O Hell yeah this is normal got a teacher that does the exact same thing, so yeah it is normal, should of dropped her class a long time ago, but sadly she is the only one that teaches it and i need it to graduate, fucking lame
Send a letter to the principal, make it sound pretty much the same as your post.

Attack the problem where it is.
there are good prof n there are bad..just concentrate on studying urself
If this class is an easy "A" I say stick with it and if he doesn't take atten. blow his class off and study on your on time....If he is known for failing students "DROP HIM QUICK"
First of all, physics is the greatest subject in the world, so suck it up and learn.
Second of all at least you're getting taught something, unlike four forty-minute periods a week where our teacher is twenty minutes late, like I have.
The only difference between high school and Uni is that you choose how much effort to put in. They are not there to teach. You are there to learn. He is obviously a professional student who knows nothing but Uni. There are many of them. Impossible to avoid. The system encourages them. Leonardo Da Vinci needed no Uni, just a mentor. Be your best. Rely on no-one but yourself. At first I loved Uni until I saw these things which we know should not be, but they are. WE have to accept it and deal with it.
PS. I still haven't finished my degree after 14 years
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