[geeks] I never thought

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

I had a math prof like this, except he was clearly a tired and angry old man
who didn't feel like teaching anymore. Now math is my weak subject, so I
started at .100. This guy galloped through stuff so fast that even the
cluefull were scratching their heads. He would get angry and yell if we
didn't "get it" and expected us to seek after-class time with him to achieve
clarity. The few students who had the time for this said he was different
"in person" and made everything clear. It was as if he was trying to fill
his social schedule using this method. I, however, was working 40 hours a
week on a full class load. In the end 3/4 of the students got F's, myself
included. We went as a group to the dean, but he supported the prof. I took
the class over and drew the same teacher (questioning friendly profs
revealed he made sure his F students ended up with him again). I got a D
after much struggle. I quit the next year when I got him as a physics
teacher. Phuck I just can't win.

btw.. I aced my core studies. One of the aces I achieved by attending only
the labs (prof challenged me by saying I couldn't pass labs without
instruction, but if I did he'd pass me). Go figure.

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Tom Borton [mailto:tborton at usa.net]
~ Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 7:15 PM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: RE: [geeks] I never thought
~ 
~ 
~ I had one of those - wrote the book, did TV commentary on politics for
~ the local news, a real prince.  The school had just created a 
~ .100-level
~ class for this guy, and he expected us to know as much as the 
~ .300-level
~ students who had had to take the .100- and .200-level 
~ classes.  Umm, no,
~ that's why we were taking the .100-level class.
~ 
~ A friend of mine got a C on one of his exams (one essay question, and
~ you wrote the *entire* class period to answer it), but during 
~ his review
~ of the exam, she found that she had covered every single point he
~ brought up.  When she went to his office to ask about the 
~ grade, he told
~ her she had addressed the points in the wrong order.
~ 
~ It was a beautiful thing to see the entire class marching to 
~ the Dean's
~ office when the prof. didn't show for the final because the 
~ exam started
~ an hour before our normal class time.  Not to mention being 
~ the last to
~ leave the Dean's office just in time to see the prof. marching across
~ campus to his office...  I still have his "absent-minded" professor
~ apology on file.
~ 
~ Tom
~ 
~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org 
~ [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
~ Of Rob
~ Sent: 25 February 2002 18:24
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [geeks] I never thought
~ 
~ 
~ That's nothing. I remember having to buy required books for class. The
~ author - the professor. The book sucked BTW.
~ 
~ - Rob
~ 
~ On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, David Passmore wrote:
~ 
~ > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:05:04AM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
~ >
~ > > Excuse me? This doesn't seem right. He's compelling 
~ (forcing) you to
~ pay
~ > > for something? Isn't this against some rule somewhere?
~ >
~ > Yeah! Pesky professors always making you pay for things like books,
~ > tuition... why, there aughta be a law!
~ >
~ > David
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