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Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:44 am to BilJ
I only had that problem in one of Charles Roussel's ECON 2030 class
his TA taught the Lab and could not speak good english thank god he wasn't the real teacher
his TA taught the Lab and could not speak good english thank god he wasn't the real teacher
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:48 am to StickyFingaz
Ah there it is. The engineering is harder than your major guy.
Congrats!
Congrats!
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:48 am to snake23
I had a Pakistani grad student for physics lab. couldn't understand anything! 
Posted on 2/25/15 at 11:50 am to southernelite
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:05 pm to GFunk
quote:
Harry Mbella Mokeba
Awesome professor. Crazy little hat perched on his head, occasionally drifting into German, calling himself the crazy African. Learned a lot in his classes.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:29 pm to deathvalleyjunkie
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I only had that problem in one of Charles Roussel's ECON 2030 class his TA taught the Lab and could not speak good english thank god he wasn't the real teacher
When I took that, our TA was Chinese. She had a heavy accent but was really trying, poor girl. Her first lab was her last and Charles did the rest of the semester, which was actually kinda cool.
Besides that, I had a thermo professor named Francisco Hung. Looked Chinese (or at least half) but rolled his R's. He was actually pretty good considering he had a hybrid accent!
Also had an Argentinian professor who taught Process Controls and a Russian professor who taught Industrial Organic Chemistry. Definitely made already challenging classes even more so, but it was still interesting. (Russian guy made a comment, while discussing the molecular structure of antidepressants, that back in Russia "we'd just drink some vodka and deal with it".
)Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:36 pm to boxcarbarney
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This is the reason why I dropped out of engineering
instead of dropping out of engineering i made the decision to open the text books and basically read them and not pay attention to the professor
it worked, shocking
however, that is not to say that i don't I really dislike the situation with having people who can barely speak engrish up in front of all these students paying $$$$ for an education
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:37 pm to GFunk
quote:
Harry Mbella Mokeba
Smart guy, speaks better english than a lot of Americans. He's from Cameroon, right?
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:45 pm to boxcarbarney
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This is the reason why I dropped out of engineering
I still remember taking the second dynamics class and our professor was Asian. He kept saying torque, but it was all Asian like "towque" (I can't even spell it, but it was nearly unrecognizable). Finally a kid asked what he meant and he just stared at him like "you are a senior engineering student and you don't know what torque is????". I'm pretty sure he thought that kid was retarded
Otherwise, that guy was actually a very good teacher.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:52 pm to Monticello
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They don't care if you learn anything or if the class is interesting. They care about her research and scholarly articles.
100% accurate.
Homeschooling while I was young taught me how to teach myself out of the textbooks a good bit, and man did that come in handy once I got to LSU's engineering department.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:53 pm to hillcountrywanderer
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He's from Cameroon, right?
Yup, and went to school in Germany and South Carolina. Very well rounded and an excellent communicator.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:53 pm to snake23
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Asian finance professor
Unless it's some kind of elective finance on how to cost-effectively pee-pee in someone's coke, I'm not sure what an asian can teach you about finance.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 12:55 pm to Monticello
quote:This. [/thread]
They don't care if you learn anything or if the class is interesting. They care about her research and scholarly articles.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 1:04 pm to snake23
I graduated in the 80's and this was a problem back then. I had a Dr. Grenier (French) for Physics II. I would sit on the edge of my chair focused on what he was saying and only understand a word or two. He would drone on and on. I dropped the class hoping I would get someone else next semester. Nope, same dude teaching same class. I finally just stopped going to classes and showed up for his open book tests. Passed it with a C and never looked back.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 1:14 pm to snake23
I had a Spanish English teacher, when I was at LSU. She taught a writing class, but similes and metaphors confused her. So, if you used a simile or metaphor in a writing assignment, you had to notate it and attach a separate page to explain them. In other words, if you wrote 'I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse', you'd have to explain that it was just a figure of speech and that you were not going to literally eat a horse. She would often write English word on the board and ask for pronunciation. She was pretty, so we didn't drop the class...
Correction, she was Chilean. Ximena
Correction, she was Chilean. Ximena
This post was edited on 2/25/15 at 1:17 pm
Posted on 2/25/15 at 1:37 pm to TexasTiger89
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I had a Dr. Grenier (French) for Physics II.
I had Dubravka Rupnik (Serbian/Croatian?) for physics I and Robert O'Connell (Irish) for physics II. Fun times.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 1:42 pm to snake23
Who gave this sonofabitch his greencard?
Posted on 2/25/15 at 1:44 pm to snake23
That was only a problem at UNO in the '80s if you took a Physics lab. All of the Physics graduate assistants were Middle Eastern. I don't know what use they had for degrees in Physics. Hmmmmm.....
Posted on 2/25/15 at 1:53 pm to Jet12
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Dubravka Rupnik
Her being foreign had nothing to do with me not being able to understand her. That bish was CRAZY. She was entertaining to watch, but I never knew what the hell she was talking about and it wasn't because I couldn't understand her English. She just couldn't put together a coherent thought
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