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Everyone has had at least one Prof who...

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scott91575 said:
In Engineering we had a prof who loved to make tests that had us prove crazy theories that hardly anybody oudside of Stephen Hawking could figure out. One midterm had an average of 27 (yes, out of 100). I got a 35 and all I could think when I got it was "I need to drop this class." Then he put up the average on the board. I was damn relieved. Of course when I finished the exam the week before I was about ready to get up and punch him in the face! I think the high was 50 and the low was 7.
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As a professor, may I just say that you guys didn't fail this exam, the professor did. Period.
 
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I had a teacher who would give out C's if you did the assignment exactly as he specified. He'd give you a B if you showed him a new prespective on something he had previous knowledge of, and he'd give out A's if, and only if you taught him something new.
 
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Another engineer here. I remember many tests where the top score was below 50 and an average was 40 or below. We used to give the golden screw award to the worst teacher. The guy that taught thermodynamics used to get it every year. I think I toughed it through one class and we ended up with eight students out of between thirty and forty that started. That should have sent a message to the university.

I was never sure if he was trying to prove how dumb we were or how smart he was.

Fortunately I have had my fair share of good profs.
 
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There is a good side to my story. Even though I was frustrated right after the test, it was beautiful listening to the total GPA whores complain. I always did well in my classes, but after about 30 minutes after an exam I'd calm down (I owe my education and sanity to beer). I simply told them to calm down, have a beer and get laid. Both are great at easing the pain. Alas, they never took my advice, and for some reason didn't like me too much.
 
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My music appreciation professor sophmore year kept commenting that my listening write-ups were too analytical and not emotional enough. "Tell me how it makes you feeeeeeeeel!"

The next assignment was a church performance. I wrote it to be deliberately awful in order to amuse a few friends who were also in the class... "The rhythmic thudding of that tremendous organ set my pulse racing and my heart a-twitter!!!" My friends laughed like crazy until I told them I was handing it in that way.

A++ and the prof wanted to copy it as an example for other classes to use. Ummmm... no.
 
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While getting my BSCS at Hawaii Pacific, I had a tibor-wannabe that taught Calculus...thickest Indian accent I'd ever heard. Literally half the class could not understand what the fuck he was saying. The only thing that saved me was my years of experience in various foreign countries where I learned to pick out the true English through the "accent fog".
 
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