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My professor made us memorize things
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Had a professor last semester who cursed in every other sentence. Referred to students as mother****ers, and was ecstatic when someone cursed back at him. Apparently he took it as students being comfortable around him and seeing him as a friend. The things you see at a community college...
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My neurobio professor's brother was a producer or co-director for Bourne series.
Also my ochem professor accused the entire class (~190 students) of conspiring to bomb the midterm when we had a 40% average. Yeah that wasn't cool doc.
My second neuro professor told us that in the event he was made president of the school if the president & provost 'disappeared' (he was #3 in line) that it wasn't his fault. And also he told us he hated kids so every time we watched a video on seizures/crazy neuro stuff, it was always a kid. And we usually watched it more than once thanks to rewind.
Also my ochem professor accused the entire class (~190 students) of conspiring to bomb the midterm when we had a 40% average. Yeah that wasn't cool doc.
My second neuro professor told us that in the event he was made president of the school if the president & provost 'disappeared' (he was #3 in line) that it wasn't his fault. And also he told us he hated kids so every time we watched a video on seizures/crazy neuro stuff, it was always a kid. And we usually watched it more than once thanks to rewind.
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I have to ask. Did this turn out funny or creepy? I can really see it going either way...
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My orgo professor made the students that made 100's on the exams come to the front and get their test. It wasn't crazy, but everyone was a bit jealous about it.
My genetics lab all told us we're performing "great contributions to genetics and medicine" by counting fruit flies and splicing fly genes. The thing was, she tried convincing us that we WERE doing great things. She at one point equated it to solving Type II Diabetes.
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Well…creepy if you were a girl. He had that creeper persona about it. Genius professor, just awkward.
Sometimes his jokes were funny, but it got out of hand at times.
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Both of these instances are serious breaches of students' right to privacy. While I'm not sure FERPA would cover the former case, it definitely covers the latter. Wholly inappropriate, unprofessional, and unethical of the professors.
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First day of AP bio. Teacher presents herself: "hello, I'm mrs. ***** and you should always beware of people hiding under your car trying to cut your Achilles' tendon. So today we'll be studying Experimental Methods..."
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Lol.
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Form and Analysis (for you non-music folk, it was grad level music theory course) and Counterpoint prof. When I took Form and Analysis we went to his office to go over what pieces we were assigned to analyze. When I came to his office he was in the middle of a piano lesson but still had me come in. I stood in the back of his studio, awkwardly looking around, and started to wonder, "Why the hell does this guy have so many picture of Valdmir Lenin in his office?!" Eventually I realize it's concert promos for him in his early days. But still, WTF!? My prof is Lenin's doppelgänger.
When I took Counterpoint from him, I remember him putting a vocal student's composition on the projector, start making an initial sentence to begin it's analysis, stopping half way through and brushing the paper off, onto the floor, with one hand. He then looked straight at the student and stated, "you realize it's going to take a 5th of scotch for me to get through that fu(king atrocity" as he slapped the next piece on the projector and began it's analysis without taking a breath.
When I took Counterpoint from him, I remember him putting a vocal student's composition on the projector, start making an initial sentence to begin it's analysis, stopping half way through and brushing the paper off, onto the floor, with one hand. He then looked straight at the student and stated, "you realize it's going to take a 5th of scotch for me to get through that fu(king atrocity" as he slapped the next piece on the projector and began it's analysis without taking a breath.
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I had an anthropology professor who somehow managed to mention sex in almost every lecture. It was the funniest, most shocking, and most awkward quarter that I've had so far.
I also had a chemistry professor who reminded me of Leonard from The Big Bang Theory, both in how he looked and how he talked. I thought it was pretty awesome, but I'm not sure he, as a chemist, would appreciate my relating him to a physicist. Haha.
I also had a chemistry professor who reminded me of Leonard from The Big Bang Theory, both in how he looked and how he talked. I thought it was pretty awesome, but I'm not sure he, as a chemist, would appreciate my relating him to a physicist. Haha.
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Had a physics prof make students come up individually to get our graded tests. He called us out from highest to lowest score. Everyone caught on to this after the second (of many) tests. So nerve-wracking… and pretty effed up really. He was also nuts in general and enjoyed making us squirm whenever he could
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I had a teacher in high school who did this. He thought the kids wouldn't catch on to it. Oh how wrong he was about the inference power of fourteen year olds.
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PR'ed 250 lbs in bench. My 50+ yr old, <200 lbs prof comes up to me, congratulates me, and asks me to spot him to see if he "still had the magic". He claims to have not benched in years, loads 3 45's on each side (315 lbs), and proceeds to bench 315 lbs for 3 reps. Could not believe my eyes!!
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One of the orgo professors at my undergrad had a fake hand from a lab accident. He used to play with it while talking without realizing it. The first time he took it off someone in class freaked out. We never quite got used to it but it was pretty hilarious when people didn't notice and it freaked them out.
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History of Film professor, awesome French dude that loved cursing at students. Also hated electronics. He wanted us to write with "a f****** quill and f****** paper", not our "bull**** laptops". Saw a girl sleeping once and stopped his lecture. He asked the student next to her "Is your pencil sharp? Grab it and stab her in the f****** neck." Ahhhh good times. I guess you get away with lots when your a semi-famous director!
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My Composition I professor cancelled class 14 times during a single semester. She never told us; she just left a note on the door each time. She was also very hateful to pretty much everyone. The best way to get an A in her class was to write something laced with profanity and erotica, because that's apparently what makes good writing. We never knew what our grades were, but we couldn't do crap about it because she was tenured, which is supposed to "protect our teachers and education", but just seems to allow professors to do whatever they want.
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I also had a teacher who made everything about sex. Mostly it was funny, but some of the other students were offended but too afraid to say anything. It eventually got kind of old. Yeah if you throw in a joke here and there it keeps things interesting, but she would go on tangents, taking up valuable class time to ramble about sex on motorcycles.
I had another teacher who use to be a drill Sargent. She was also getting chemo at the time, so not a very happy camper. Constantly went on rants about ethics, bullying, Jesus, dead babies, and how we were all incompetent idiots who were going to go to jail for killing all our patients (this was nursing school).
All my teachers but one had a specific story or two that they liked to tell over and over again and expected us to react to it each time like we just heard it for the first time.
One of my teachers sang Baby Got Back for our class. We had mannequins with detachable parts that we used to practice skills on before doing them on real people. This same teacher, at the beginning of the year told a student "Go to the pink room and ask Mr. X for a penis off the night stand." Later in the same lecture he was talking about something and pointed to a student using the penis.
I had another teacher who use to be a drill Sargent. She was also getting chemo at the time, so not a very happy camper. Constantly went on rants about ethics, bullying, Jesus, dead babies, and how we were all incompetent idiots who were going to go to jail for killing all our patients (this was nursing school).
All my teachers but one had a specific story or two that they liked to tell over and over again and expected us to react to it each time like we just heard it for the first time.
One of my teachers sang Baby Got Back for our class. We had mannequins with detachable parts that we used to practice skills on before doing them on real people. This same teacher, at the beginning of the year told a student "Go to the pink room and ask Mr. X for a penis off the night stand." Later in the same lecture he was talking about something and pointed to a student using the penis.
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Had arguably the worst Microeconomics professor of all time.
Notoriously late to class, berated students that pointed out the (rampant) typos and mistakes in his lectures, ranted about living with his demanding mother on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and insisted that we were all idiots for attending our school that just wanted to steal our parent's money. He later shared that he dropped out of college after a semester of all F's and worked construction before bottoming out (in his words "having a conversation with the head of the local narcotics department").
No clue how he got a Phd, but dropping out of college to work construction seemed much more in line with his abilities as an instructor.
Notoriously late to class, berated students that pointed out the (rampant) typos and mistakes in his lectures, ranted about living with his demanding mother on a farm in the middle of nowhere, and insisted that we were all idiots for attending our school that just wanted to steal our parent's money. He later shared that he dropped out of college after a semester of all F's and worked construction before bottoming out (in his words "having a conversation with the head of the local narcotics department").
No clue how he got a Phd, but dropping out of college to work construction seemed much more in line with his abilities as an instructor.
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That's an invitation for a lawsuit and a serious violation of FERPA. I'm surprised no one sued.
I was quite upset when one of my professors actually uploaded a PDF file to the course website (only classmates could access it) that showed everyone's grade along with identifying information. I received an A so I didn't say anything, but if I had been one of the students who received an F, I would have complained.
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My least favorite professors:
1. My microeconomics professor would come in with torn/soiled jeans after working in his garden, and would come in to class with his thick Brooklyn accent and ask "where was we?" He had no respect for us, and we had no text books. He was incredibly rude to all of the students, and clearly had no interest in being there at all. I think everyone hated him.
2. There was a chemistry professor at my school that I believe had the early signs of Alzheimer's Disease. On most days he was lucid. On others, he would literally relay everything in the reverse order or opposite of the correct answer. He couldn't seem to understand why the class averages were so low. Since it was an accelerated course, some of the materials were obscure and weren't available in other intro or advanced intro text books (including our own).
3. My organic chemistry laboratory professor (for the first semester) literally told everyone not to bother coming to pre-lab lecture because he didn't want to be there. This was explicitly stated - there was no inference necessary.
4. We had a tenured professor in an upper level biology course that made the remark that she hated that our generation was told that we could do anything and that it led to false aspirations. While likely true, I find it inappropriate to say when a student is already visibly upset.
There are a few more interesting stories, but I don't want to identify myself and set myself up for retaliation on my medical school applications. Despite the crappy (in my opinion) undergraduate program, my alma mater actually has a good medical school and the professors seem to be of a much higher caliber.
1. My microeconomics professor would come in with torn/soiled jeans after working in his garden, and would come in to class with his thick Brooklyn accent and ask "where was we?" He had no respect for us, and we had no text books. He was incredibly rude to all of the students, and clearly had no interest in being there at all. I think everyone hated him.
2. There was a chemistry professor at my school that I believe had the early signs of Alzheimer's Disease. On most days he was lucid. On others, he would literally relay everything in the reverse order or opposite of the correct answer. He couldn't seem to understand why the class averages were so low. Since it was an accelerated course, some of the materials were obscure and weren't available in other intro or advanced intro text books (including our own).
3. My organic chemistry laboratory professor (for the first semester) literally told everyone not to bother coming to pre-lab lecture because he didn't want to be there. This was explicitly stated - there was no inference necessary.
4. We had a tenured professor in an upper level biology course that made the remark that she hated that our generation was told that we could do anything and that it led to false aspirations. While likely true, I find it inappropriate to say when a student is already visibly upset.
There are a few more interesting stories, but I don't want to identify myself and set myself up for retaliation on my medical school applications. Despite the crappy (in my opinion) undergraduate program, my alma mater actually has a good medical school and the professors seem to be of a much higher caliber.
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One time I was in Brazil with a group and two professors. We were out late and it was Brazil (I'll leave it at that). When we got back to the hotel, there was porn playing in the lobby. And we just stood there and watched and were all like, "What's going on? Hahahaha." It was just funny and shocking, of course. I was standing in between the two professors, and I look over to the one on my left (I have a long, 10-year friendship with the one on the right, so the comment I'm about to make wouldn't have been so effective for her) and I said, "Dr. ----, we're watching porn together." Immediately, her eyes widened like, "Oh, shiz... watching porn with a student... my job..." and she suddenly was like, "OKAY! BEDTIME FOR ME!" Hahahaha.
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Chemistry professor could 'not' do math. He would do examples on the board and often make mistakes like divide numbers like 20 divided by 5 and somehow get 3 as his answer. When someone would correct them, he would stop and take him a while to figure out his mistake, and he like 'OH!' I see the problem. Then he would change the 20 to a 15 to make his wrong math correct, instead of just correcting his math by changing the 3 to a 4. The thing though is, the '20' came from working the problem, so now that he abruptly changed it to a 15, everything is wrong from there on forward.
He did it that all semester wrong, making the problem fit his error instead of fixing his error.
He did it that all semester wrong, making the problem fit his error instead of fixing his error.
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I think chem prof was high all the time. One day, I got a call to go lecture for him because he is not in the "right mind".
He also talked about how to synthesize different drugs (legal and illegal) all the time
He also talked about how to synthesize different drugs (legal and illegal) all the time
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My calc teacher randomly started singing and dancing to the theme song for "Blues Clues" last semester because he lost a bet. I recorded it 
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Micro prof had a mandatory attendance policy. In between each unit, he'd include a mini-rant about something (liberalism, abortion, allergies, anti-vax movement). These would typically get out of hand and last upwards of 40 minutes. Then he'd tell us to "just look at the power points" to prepare for the test and not cover the material.
A&P prof had a really awkward illustration about melanocytes and melanin. He'd talk about white supremacists/eugenicists. Then say "Ok, well what if the opposite is true, and melanin really makes you smart?" and have anyone with /random eye or hair color/ stand up, tell the class that these people are the worst students, etc etc etc. He'd eventually have all the minority students standing, then would ramble about how they're "whiter than me, they just have more melanin near the surface, below the surface they're white!" An actual test question was "Which of the following US Presidents had more melanocytes? Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Howard Taft" (Taft, because he was fat and had more body surface...).
A&P prof had a really awkward illustration about melanocytes and melanin. He'd talk about white supremacists/eugenicists. Then say "Ok, well what if the opposite is true, and melanin really makes you smart?" and have anyone with /random eye or hair color/ stand up, tell the class that these people are the worst students, etc etc etc. He'd eventually have all the minority students standing, then would ramble about how they're "whiter than me, they just have more melanin near the surface, below the surface they're white!" An actual test question was "Which of the following US Presidents had more melanocytes? Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Howard Taft" (Taft, because he was fat and had more body surface...).
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What happened? Did he choke on it?
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Not quite. He swallowed it whole and it caused him severe stomach pains. It was so bad he had to go to the ER.
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That must have been one giant monitor.
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Took an art gen ed course at a community college. Instructor was a burnt out hippy who never lectured. We watched movies every day except for 2 days: a field trip to his art exhibits, which I skipped, and our class final. The final was a written essay type thing where we answered questions on the movies we watched. He literally went over the final with us as we took it and gave us all the answers. None of this is an exaggeration.
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My macroeconomics professor from 3 years ago was ridiculous.
The final was 100 multiple choice scantron in 60 minutes, and then an essay about how China will take over the US. Every class, she quizzed us on facts from the New York Times and berated students that gave incorrect answers. This is the same professor with whom my friend took geography, and one of those tests was computer based and required students to match a numbered list of every country in Africa with a numbered template of the continent with the countries outlined by clicking on the numbered outline that corresponded to the number assigned to that country on the numbered list. I have no idea how she set that system up, but it only gave 60 seconds or something crazy.
My gen chem lab professor would always brag about his IQ.
The final was 100 multiple choice scantron in 60 minutes, and then an essay about how China will take over the US. Every class, she quizzed us on facts from the New York Times and berated students that gave incorrect answers. This is the same professor with whom my friend took geography, and one of those tests was computer based and required students to match a numbered list of every country in Africa with a numbered template of the continent with the countries outlined by clicking on the numbered outline that corresponded to the number assigned to that country on the numbered list. I have no idea how she set that system up, but it only gave 60 seconds or something crazy.
My gen chem lab professor would always brag about his IQ.
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My Chem 2 professor was a conspiracy theorist who believed that Japan invented cars that can go without gas but US oil companies are not letting them sell those on the market.
My psychology professor really disliked pre-med students saying that once they become doctors they think they are the "biggest thing in the world". He similarly disliked psychologists working for hospitals.
Oh I almost forgot! The same psychology professor brought a plate of fried cockroaches and ate them throughout the lecture to everyone's disgust.
My psychology professor really disliked pre-med students saying that once they become doctors they think they are the "biggest thing in the world". He similarly disliked psychologists working for hospitals.
Oh I almost forgot! The same psychology professor brought a plate of fried cockroaches and ate them throughout the lecture to everyone's disgust.
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Had a professor for a public policy class. We had a small class of about 25 or so. We didn't do a single thing all semester except talk about random things while eating pizza and ice cream, every class, which he paid for. Oh, by the way, he gave everyone A's. Needless to say, the semester ended too quickly.
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1) Not so crazy, but had a psychology prof who brought a beer to class to use in a discussion of something or other, and then gave it to one of the students in the front row to drink.
2) It's not really a professor story, but it is also includes beer. I was taking a class taught by Robert Sapolsky (who is a pretty interesting dude all on his own, and an incredible lecturer), and during the (pretty difficult) final in this class, which probably had about 500 kids in it and was held in a giant auditorium, three completely naked guys ran into the room and called out the name of one of the students. When they found him, they made him funnel a beer, and then he went back to taking his exam and they ran out of the room. A minute later, Prof Sapolsky comes into the room and looks around with a sort befuddled/perplexed look on his face. No one said anything, and everyone kept working on their exams, so he eventually left. I assume the naked dudes were fraternity pledges, but it was still a weird experience. I wonder what Sapolsky thought about the three naked guys with the beer can and the funnel who must have passed him in the hallway as they ran out of the room.
2) It's not really a professor story, but it is also includes beer. I was taking a class taught by Robert Sapolsky (who is a pretty interesting dude all on his own, and an incredible lecturer), and during the (pretty difficult) final in this class, which probably had about 500 kids in it and was held in a giant auditorium, three completely naked guys ran into the room and called out the name of one of the students. When they found him, they made him funnel a beer, and then he went back to taking his exam and they ran out of the room. A minute later, Prof Sapolsky comes into the room and looks around with a sort befuddled/perplexed look on his face. No one said anything, and everyone kept working on their exams, so he eventually left. I assume the naked dudes were fraternity pledges, but it was still a weird experience. I wonder what Sapolsky thought about the three naked guys with the beer can and the funnel who must have passed him in the hallway as they ran out of the room.
