greyscales wrote:Mega rant time
I have two really awful instructors this semester. And they both start and end my Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
One is probably mid-60s, demanding, and a completely power-crazed geography professor. Assigned seating, nobody allowed to sit in the last row even if you're late, no cell phones (or he confiscates them until the next class two days later), no laptops, no food or drink (9 am class), and clearly thinks he owns the place because he was one of the authors of the textbook. Plus the TA in the class is a complete airhead. She sounds stoned/slurred, doesn't seem to know where she is, and has no idea how to lead a class.
The other instructor is a second year PhD student with no clue what he's doing teaching a 300 level polisci course. He clearly doesn't know where he's going with the class, asks vague questions without knowing if there is even an answer, and doesn't know how to answer a question a student asks. He also forgot to put in a book request at any of the 4 bookstores on campus (yet still assigned reading from the text). He posts articles on his personal weebly blog. Then we get some BS articles to read. It's an undergraduate class and we are reading things he doesn't even understand. He also swears more than all ILFers combined, looks like a frat boy, and is ignorant of how to pronounce just about any name/country that is slightly out of the ordinary.
The other courses I'm taking seem pretty promising, but then again in comparison to those two what wouldn't?
damn that sounds awful. every class i've ever had w/ a professor who (co)/wrote the textbook...AWFUL. maybe all that textbook money turns u into a dickhead?
on the other hand, i would totally be that stoned unprepared TA/grad student teacher. but that is part of the reason why i never went to grad school.
and if you're on the other side of the class (students) that just blows, esp if you are actually wanting to learn stuff from the class.
i always felt that the teacher/professor was waay more important than the class itself.