I would like to tear my professor's face off.

[ZombieNixon]

In a major that requires from its students the utmost in creative thinking (computer game development), this professor does not appreciate creativity in the least. He might know the material inside and out, but can't teach worth crap, and can't evoke interest in the subject...and then wonders why his students struggle and don't give their best efforts. In an effort to alleviate this, he sets unreasonable assignments and gives us two days to do them (we have other classes, you know), and expects the first conceptual drafts of projects to be of final presentation quality. :wtf: Sorry, I'm sitting here in class fuming at what an incredible ass he is (to everyone, not just me) and I had to vent. :banghead: I want to tear his face off. x(

[Little Wing]

1. make THAT your videogame

:-)

[ZombieNixon]

2. Actually, I've designed a game in which he is the final boss.

I would like to develop that someday. :P

[skygazer]

3. I had a creative writing teacher like that once

Our first assignment was to write a descriptive paragraph. I wrote one about a horse, put a lot into it. He kept me after class and grilled me about it, basically asking me from where I copied it.

After that, I only wrote things that were pretty much identical to the examples in the book he had us read and got good grades on all of them. And didn't learn a fucking thing.

People like that should find another profession.

[ZombieNixon]

4. I can barely bring myself to suck it up and just do the shit assignments.

He's up for tenure. I really hope he doesn't get it. x(

[Elidor]

25. Reminds me of the art teacher who

Made all incoming freshman art majors draw the SAME picture of Abraham Lincoln. And then coldly taught a clinical class on drawing, being sure to kill any impending sign of creativity at the earliest bloom. He died several years ago, and if there is a hell, he's sitting through his own art class now.

[graywarrior]

5. Geeze, I had a professor like that in art school

He'd give 3 ideas to choose from for an illustration due the next day. Then he'd put your stuff up in front of the class and say "who told you your could draw, your mommy? Well, your mommy doesn't know crap about art!" Every single time, the same fucking statement. I did a lot of drugs to block him out.

[ZombieNixon]

6. Heh...I surf DU during class to block this guy out.

:P

[graywarrior]

7. Serves him right. And he probably hates you all.

They lose touch with reality after awhile and become pitiful human beings. He probably drinks lots of scotch or vodka.

[ZombieNixon]

8. He does seem out of touch with reality.

Personally, he's a nice enough guy, but he still seems to think he's a good teacher, when course evals repeatedly say the opposite. :shrug:

[graywarrior]

9. Teachers are the last people who should be teaching, I swear to god.

My last professor was here in Florida. She was a walking disaster. Our class actually taught ourselves by emailing one another. I got an A and I have no idea how.

[ZombieNixon]

10. I had him for a different class last year,

and I got an A only because we got another prof to yell at him and tell him that he was destroying the efforts of many very good students and having a detrimental effect on the major as a whole. Sadly, that professor who sided with us is not on vacation for the rest of the year, and this professor is back telling us that our work is "good" but everything's wrong. :wtf:

[graywarrior]

11. Makes me wonder what they think. What thoughts actually go through their brains.

[GalleryGod]

14. And some of us keep getting better and better each Fall Semester.

[billyskank]

12. AFTER you graduate

Remember that. No degree yet, no face tearing. To do otherwise is foolishness. ;)

[ZombieNixon]

13. *sighs*

I just hope he doesn't get tenure. And gets fired. I feel bad saying these things, because he's a nice fellow personally, but he really shouldn't be teaching.

[Maddy McCall]

17. Student evaluations are your friend.

Though you'll have to deal with it the rest of the semester, you should have the opportunity to evaluate his teaching abilities at the end of the semester. Student evaluations ARE considered in tenure decisions.

[ZombieNixon]

20. Yeah, I slammed him before last year.

I'll do it again in March. x( I really hope they look closely at his student evals.

[mainegreen]

15. He's preparing you for the business world. That's what they expect of programmers in the real world.

It's rather annoying.

[ZombieNixon]

19. Oh, this isn't even a programming class.

It's level design. God forbid he teaches programming. x(

[deadparrot]

16. I hear ya.

I'm in a history class that requires 200+ pages of reading per class (which is twice a week). I wish some professors would realize that we have 3-5 other (and in my case, upper-level) classes to juggle.

:banghead:

[ZombieNixon]

21. Oh, every prof thinks their class is the only one.

Even if it's a totally useless bullshit requirement. x(

[hickman]

18. Those who can, do, those who can't, teach.

That's the saying anyway.

[ZombieNixon]

22. And those who can't teach, teach anyway.

:banghead:

[hickman]

24. Find some gum.

Chew for about a minute. Just so it starts to come together but the sugar is still only half masticated. Stick the gum an a wall. Thats the target. Get ice trays out of the fridge. Take a cube in your hand, wind up and fire. Remember, you'll get better with practice. You'll also learn how to fill the trays so the cubes really shatter on impact.

[otherlander]

23. Gahh...

for the first half of this year, our history teacher was out on maternity leave, and we had a sub who really didn't know how to teach. I mean, she was nice and all... she just couldn't teach. We were supposed to be having a class debate, but I swear to you, people knew so little, they started backing up their arguments with points from the OPPOSITE SIDE. :banghead:

Also, there was a report we had to do. We worked on it for months and she made it worth ONE test grade. Unbe-fucking-livable. I didn't spend hour after hour researching the worst story in the world for one test grade. :grr:

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. Since you're posting on DU while in his class

I'd imagine he has a similar sentiment.

:P

[ZombieNixon]

27. Oh, he's totally oblvious to student sentiment.

He probably thinks I'm hanging on to his every word. :eyes:

[salin]

28. that sorta struck me as well

nearly a decade ago I had a serious had injury that preventing me from holding a pen in my 'writing hand'. So with profs permission (it was rare at the time) I brought a laptop to type notes from the lecture. It was the only laptop in the room.

While 'wireless' wasn't yet an option, I can not quite fathom going on-line during a class. Not because it would be rude (which it sorta would be) but because who knows what I would miss whle I was attending to what was onscreen, and how much that might screw me as a student per the next assignment/project/exam.

I would sympathize a heck of a lot more were you not typing online (eg paying attention to something having nothing to do with the class, during class). And while legitimately it may be reaction to a "boring" class (as in the prof should perfect his act) - but the reality at college/grad school is that we have to pass their work - we have to understand what they want and learn to deliver (as one oft has to do in the work world if one is in a field with clients.)

Its late, perhaps my lack of empathy has more to do with fatigue and thus less patience than anything else. If that is the case, forgive me - I'll be nicer in tne morning. :D