If you’ve ever taken a humanities class in college, you know That Guy. That Guy could be any person of any gender, but one thing is very clear: they are incredibly annoying. They always think that their opinion is of the utmost importance, chiming in whenever they can about anything that comes to mind. It …
Seguir leyendo ‘Nikolas, if you’d like to teach the class, let me know. Otherwise, I’m going to need you to stop interrupting every 5 minutes’: 22-year-old student constantly interrupts his professor’s lectures, complains to the department when she finally calls him out
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‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out
Professors sometimes need to be taken down a peg. Some of them walk around wielding unbridled power just because they have PhDs and a group of eager students trying to impress them. Some of them get a little high on their own intellectual supply and aren’t the nicest kinds of people to be around. But …
Seguir leyendo ‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out
Professor tells 20-year-old college student not to wear makeup in class, forbids her from reapplying lip balm during the lecture: ‘She told me I’m distracting everyone’
One of the best things about going from high school to college is that your instructors really mind their own business. In high school, there is a nonzero chance that your nefarious male theatre teacher will make you change into pants from the costume closet because you committed the major transgression of wearing leggings to …
Seguir leyendo Professor tells 20-year-old college student not to wear makeup in class, forbids her from reapplying lip balm during the lecture: ‘She told me I’m distracting everyone’
Demanding professor insists student presentations stick to schedule then allows frequent overrunning, faces schooling from student determined to make the grade : ‘We’re sure we have this down to 30 minutes’
While the professors of your college years may not always be as life-defining as the teachers who came before that, they still have a significant impact on your educational experience. Most college graduates can look back and pinpoint that one class they really wish they hadn’t taken, purely because of the teaching experience. For one …
Seguir leyendo Demanding professor insists student presentations stick to schedule then allows frequent overrunning, faces schooling from student determined to make the grade : ‘We’re sure we have this down to 30 minutes’
‘Not even 12 hours notice’: Professor uncancels 8 AM class at 10 PM the night before
In college, there’s nothing worse than getting up early, traversing the freezing cold campus, and arriving at class to find a note taped to the door saying that class was canceled. I could have been sleeping for two more hours, but instead, I had to haul myself to the library because I didn’t want to …
Seguir leyendo ‘Not even 12 hours notice’: Professor uncancels 8 AM class at 10 PM the night before
Professor Gives Student a Zero on Their Essay, Claims There’s a 27% Chance Their Summary Paragraph Was Written With AI
I do not envy college students in a post-ChatGPT world. I was lucky to graduate from undergrad a few months before that went worldwide. I’m grateful I never had to sit through a professor begging the class not to use Artificial Intelligence to write an English paper. Even though I empathize with professors and teachers …
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College Goers Share Sassy Comebacks Exchanged Between Professors and Students
Our college years can be some of our messiest ones. That earliest stage of adulthood is never plain sailing whatever you choose do with it, and the stresses and freedoms of formal education only make it more difficult. This is a fancy way of saying that most college students have skipped a class from time …
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‘The instructor walked away, shaking his head’: Student’s terrible handwriting trumps forensic expert
Some of us undoubtedly have terrible handwriting, but do any of us have handwriting so terrible that it can fool a leading forensic expert? It’s important to remember that while being an expert on something means that you have a wealth of experience in the subject and have seen many things, it doesn’t mean that …
Seguir leyendo ‘The instructor walked away, shaking his head’: Student’s terrible handwriting trumps forensic expert
Lazy Professor Fails His Entire Class Because Chat GPT Said All of Their Essays Were Written With Chat GPT
Chat GPT has caused a lot of new problems in the classroom. If plagiarism was a problem before, it’s definitely a problem now. Luckily for teachers, Chat GPT isn’t the greatest at writing essays, so they can usually tell when it’s being used. If an essay says «As an AI tool, I cannot tell you …
Seguir leyendo Lazy Professor Fails His Entire Class Because Chat GPT Said All of Their Essays Were Written With Chat GPT
Professor Deducts ‘Lateness’ Points From Paper Submitted On Time
Let’s be real: College sucks for a lot of reasons. The «Freshman Fifteen,» midterms and finals, essays that take you a million years to write and rewrite, only to rewrite again. I hated it all. But dealing with haughty, self-important professors may have been the absolute worst. I remember at University of Toronto, I had …
Seguir leyendo Professor Deducts ‘Lateness’ Points From Paper Submitted On Time