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Strange professors in college
Posted on 10/2/18 at 8:53 am
Posted on 10/2/18 at 8:53 am
Or a professor that just did things different?
Had one lady professor who definitely marched to a different beat. She was a skinny young woman from South Africa. Thick accent and not very attractive. We might have been her first college class ever and maybe her last. Said she did not believe in giving tests or grades because students become more obsessed with their letter grade rather than the content. She made it clear not to worry about any tests. Just relax and learn. She would bring bubble gum to class. She would ask questions and fire a piece of gum at whoever answered it correctly. Other professors caught wind that she was not giving written tests. So for the final she was forced to give one but told the class not to worry about it. I remember studying some the night before just in case so I wouldn't bomb it but I had not studied all semester. On final day she told everyone not to worry about how difficult this final is. It was a legit final. She said this score means nothing and she was proud of how much this class learned. Then she said at the top right corner of the front page write what grade you feel like you deserve for the semester and circle it. Of course I gave myself an A. Pretty sure they ran her off after that semester.
Had one lady professor who definitely marched to a different beat. She was a skinny young woman from South Africa. Thick accent and not very attractive. We might have been her first college class ever and maybe her last. Said she did not believe in giving tests or grades because students become more obsessed with their letter grade rather than the content. She made it clear not to worry about any tests. Just relax and learn. She would bring bubble gum to class. She would ask questions and fire a piece of gum at whoever answered it correctly. Other professors caught wind that she was not giving written tests. So for the final she was forced to give one but told the class not to worry about it. I remember studying some the night before just in case so I wouldn't bomb it but I had not studied all semester. On final day she told everyone not to worry about how difficult this final is. It was a legit final. She said this score means nothing and she was proud of how much this class learned. Then she said at the top right corner of the front page write what grade you feel like you deserve for the semester and circle it. Of course I gave myself an A. Pretty sure they ran her off after that semester.
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Posted on 10/2/18 at 8:55 am to ctiger69
Your professors should have taught you the importance of paragraphs.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 8:57 am to ctiger69
It's a WONDERFUL day for Anthropology!
Posted on 10/2/18 at 8:57 am to ctiger69
They are almost all strange
Posted on 10/2/18 at 8:58 am to ctiger69
We had a persistently-stoned full professor who thought it was a good idea to teach classes like Federal Indian Law to 19-20 year olds using high level law school texts. People would get like a 9/100 on his exams which probably equated to an A-. Out of a class of 25 maybe 6 would show up on average, but it didn't phase this dude.
Guy stole the wife of another full prof in the same department, so there was always an undercurrent of tension. I made sure to take the classes of the guy who got cucked as well, good times.
Guy stole the wife of another full prof in the same department, so there was always an undercurrent of tension. I made sure to take the classes of the guy who got cucked as well, good times.
This post was edited on 10/2/18 at 9:12 am
Posted on 10/2/18 at 8:59 am to RCA
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That's one dumb bitch.
I remember one or two quirky profs like that, I had one guy, on day one, for homework told us all to write up a contract detailing what we would do for whatever grade we wanted, thought it was a trap, so I put a decent, but easy, workload in mine, he signed it, I did it, got my A
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:01 am to facher08
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It's a WONDERFUL day for Anthropology!
Hah I remember this.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:01 am to ctiger69
I had some old dude for a required computer programming type class. This dude would have a bottle Dr. Pepper ever day and drink from it the whole entire class but the level of liquid in the DP would never go down. I couldn't decided if he was spitting it back in there or if he was taking the smallest sips known to mankind.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:02 am to ctiger69
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Said she did not believe in giving tests or grades because students become more obsessed with their letter grade rather than the content.
Insert the :she's right, you know: meme.
Blowing through a lot of lesson plan with heavy testing only trains your brain for short-term memorization. Memorize & regurgitate, then forget. It takes away from critical thinking and long-term memory development of the information. Lesson plans that are immersive, move at a more deliberate pace and are presented in multiple different styles and formats, results in the best memory retention and reaches the widest number of students. A lot of Montessori and Waldorf schools have this philosophy and with great success compared to common teaching methods.
Very few teachers in America teach in this fashion and very few schools are supportive of it. I suspect that the reason is because it's a difficult metric to measure success by. We're obsessed with testing in America because we're a numbers-driven culture but learning and intelligence are difficult to measure with numbers so we often miss the mark with education.
This post was edited on 10/2/18 at 9:08 am
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:08 am to ctiger69
LSU standouts:
Gage in English. Goldplated weirdo.
Weird in a good way: Whitaker in Religious Studies and Clark(e?) in Latin (Clarkus).
Gage in English. Goldplated weirdo.
Weird in a good way: Whitaker in Religious Studies and Clark(e?) in Latin (Clarkus).
This post was edited on 10/2/18 at 9:09 am
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:10 am to facher08
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It's a WONDERFUL day for Anthropology!
Anthropology is NOT the study of dinosaurs.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:13 am to ctiger69
Had an English professor that performed a full-on make out scene with a stuffed animal. Can’t remember the text we were studying but she felt the need to act out the love story for us to understand it.
Going in for a kiss would have been weird enough but this was groping and open mouth kissing for about 5 seconds. That’s an eternity when you’re stuck watching that shite.
This was also the woman that sent me a 5 paragraph essay about how unethical I was when I asked if there was anything I could do to raise my final grade from an 89.4 to an 89.5. She threatened to report me to the dean too.
Psycho.
Going in for a kiss would have been weird enough but this was groping and open mouth kissing for about 5 seconds. That’s an eternity when you’re stuck watching that shite.
This was also the woman that sent me a 5 paragraph essay about how unethical I was when I asked if there was anything I could do to raise my final grade from an 89.4 to an 89.5. She threatened to report me to the dean too.
Psycho.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:14 am to ctiger69
I had a professor at LSU who was so loaded during our final exam he started rearranging furniture in the classroom. 
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:15 am to ctiger69
too bad she didn't teach calculus. I could've used a teacher like that.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:20 am to StringedInstruments
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This was also the woman that sent me a 5 paragraph essay about how unethical I was when I asked if there was anything I could do to raise my final grade from an 89.4 to an 89.5. She threatened to report me to the dean too.
I had an English professor raise my 87% B to a 90% A just because I asked and she liked me
Funny how much the luck of the professor draw matters.
This post was edited on 10/2/18 at 9:21 am
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:26 am to ctiger69
Back in the mid-‘80s, both of the Physics labs that I took were taught by TAs who were from the middle east. I just couldn’t figure out why middle eastern countries would be sending their students here to learn physics. Hmmmmm......
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:26 am to Tigereye10005
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I had an English professor raise my 87% B to a 90% A just because I asked and she liked me
Funny how much the luck of the professor draw matters.
When I was in college I learned how easy it was to manipulate professors. They're actually pretty easy to influence if your tongue is just a little bit silver. Studies have actually shown that the more intelligent a person is the easier they are to manipulate, which would seem counterintuitive.
I once spent an entire semester pretending to be a liberal and writing these long-winded diatribes on social injustice and other skyscreaming inanity because I recognized, after the first day of class, that my English professor was proggier than a Young Socialists of America meeting in Portland Oregon on Martin Luther King Day.
She was actually pretty cool and we had a great rapport, probably didn't hurt that I was easy on the eyes back then and she looked like a disheveled wench in need of a good dicking
I got an A in that class
This post was edited on 10/2/18 at 9:32 am
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:30 am to McLemore
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Gage in English. Goldplated weirdo.
I saw him about 6 months ago.
He's still weird.
Timmons was about the only normal one I can remember.
A very interesting guy was Malcolm Schuman in Anthropology. He's written a few books; a couple of which are pretty good reads.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:31 am to nola000
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Blowing through a lot of lesson plan with heavy testing only trains your brain for short-term memorization. Memorize & regurgitate, then forget.
This is so true. Especially for courses like history where they would ask you to memorize dates of events. It always drove me crazy. The exact date isn’t important, I can look that shite up later. Ask me about the importance of the event in history and where it fits chronologically with other events. But truth be told, it also has a lot to do with lazy teachers. It is a hell of a lot easier to design a “what was the date of event X” exam than it is to design an exam that tests real knowledge. Let’s not forget that most college professors got into the job because it is easy.
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