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20's me is in this picture and can bearly stand it.

Robear wrote:

20's me is in this picture and can bearly stand it.

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Tpyo?

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Seriously though, can we talk about how there was an entire generation of educators who said sh*t like this (the high school teachers claiming college profs were tyrants)? Were they just using that to scare students into compliance, or were they actually traumatized by college professors who did strict sh*t like break out rulers to measure margins & spacing?

I can't be alone in having college professors who were the most academically laid-back and understanding people I've encountered in my entire educational career.

I had some professors that were wound real tight in college.

I was not allowed to wear a hat in class by my freshman English professor. And of course that was at 9am when I would roll out of bed in desperate need of a hat.

But that's one of the few I remember. My CIS professors in the business school invited the whole class out for drinks at the end of semesters.

I had a fair number of laid back profs, but just as many that were what I'd call tyrants.

I had one prof yell at the class, and I hated the guy, but his anger was actually kinda justified. He gave us a small packet of poetry to read before the next class session. It was our senior seminar course, and I don't think anyone there liked him. There were only like 13 of us in the class, so the next session, it didn't take him long to go through the whole room and realize that none of us had read it. He was angry and he should've been.

I had a few awkward profs who were probably better off not teaching, but none of them were ever complete tyrants about small details. I even turned in one paper under the requested 15 page minimum and closed with a disclaimer that was basically, "I got nothing else. I couldn't squeeze 15 pages out of this." I still got a B on the paper.

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The first day of college for me was at a community college. On the drive up my friend (who was driving) turned in front of a truck and we got into an accident. His parents came and got us and we took their truck back to the college (it was about a 25 mile drive). I got there about 10 minutes after my first class started. I came in and told the professor what happened. He looked at me straight dead in the eye and said, "Well then you're not in my class. Get the f*ck out of here." Of course I started walking out and he told me it was just a joke and he didn't think I'd take him seriously. One of my favorite professors I ever had.

I did have a Macro Econ professor who was pretty boring and very strict on taking attendance every day in class (and being a required class there were about 100 people in it). I had another professor who absolutely required papers to be no more than two pages. To my knowledge no one ever tested him on it but he said your paper would be tossed if it was more than two pages. He did say that the type size could be whatever you wanted and the margins however wide you wanted so in reality he wasn't very strict on the length.

Overall I don't remember any of them being tyrants. Usually the opposite. That said I never had a HS teacher say college would be harder or stricter but movies certainly gave me that impression.

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"Free speech" and the First Amendment literally only applies to personal protections against government retribution. The First ain't going to protect you from Bob's fist hitting your face when you insult him, or from Starbucks permanently banning you when you verbally abuse their baristas.

Maybe to clarify my above statement, I attended both a couple of community colleges and later a university. The few tyrants I encountered were at the university. But I think the incentives for those two types of institutions are quite different.

I went to a college prep school, which was quite demanding, and then in college, my workload increased significantly, to the point where it was easily more than a full time job - six days always, sometimes 7 in my last year (only maybe 4-6 hours on weekend days, until I started my thesis). The challenge was fantastic and the professors supportive, but it really became a punishing load over time. I was well prepared for grad school, though I did not go, as it turned out, and I've never really had a job that was quite as demanding as college was.

I had two professors who were just assholes, and one who told me I should not taking her Japanese language course since I was not a business major. I was struggling and she told me she'd fail me if I stayed, and pass me if I left. So... I left. (That was at UMass, not at my college as such.)

Wow. I wish you had gone to the Dean on that one. That's some bullsh*t.

You would not believe how naive I was at the time.

Robear wrote:

You would not believe how naive I was at the time. :-)

I feel that is the name of many a sextape

You would not believe how naive I was at the time.

We all were.
I had a juco English teacher that ridiculed all the men in the class because none of us knew that Hills like White Elephants was about a man trying to get a woman he had sex with to have an abortion. (for the record, only one person understood the story)

It is one of the few times older me would have let younger me say something. I am a patient person and naive to a tee back then. But that crossed the line to a point where I narrowly bit my tongue.

I had a math prof who was AWFUL to everyone. He called my TA for that class by the wrong name the entire semester. There had been a staffing change and all the TAs were too scared to correct him that one person had been replaced by another. We were just told that if we saw one particular name to understand it really meant our TA, and under no circumstances were we to talk to the professor about it.
I also saw a couple different grad students bring him paperwork during lectures, and practically bow to him before handing him something and fleeing.
I found out years later from my grandmother-in-law that he was known to the whole university as an asshole. She knew him from her work in a library on campus, and knew who I was talking about by name when I related the story.

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My sister had a professor of biology that put a 25 word/definition matching section in his final. None of the words matched the definitions so he took points off for wrong answers but took nothing off if you didn't answer. Everyone attempted to answer and everyone lost 25 points from their final. He explained that if you don't know an answer to a question then you should leave it blank. Which of course flies in the face of how everyone has been taught their whole lives. The kicker was that he never explained this to his students before the test, he just did it and let them know afterwards when they all went to his office.

Cute, but that isn't the kind of sh*t you pull on a final.

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Vargen wrote:

Cute, but that isn't the kind of sh*t you pull on a final.

Yeah, not unless you curve everyone 25 points to make up for your self righteous shenanigans.

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I would make them decide on one controller scheme no matter what device it's on.

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