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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 5:07 PM Some lady posted this on the ratemyprofessor.com forum "I realize that everyone is entitled to their own opinion on this site, however, I am irked by the nature of some ratings of various Professors I've previously studied under. I would welcome the ability to offer rebuttals to the absurdly inaccurate diatribes offered by my alleged peers. Furthermore, I could say with the utmost of certainty that the students that rant on about too many notes, long and boring class, difficult tests etc. should probably reflect upon their own abilities as a student and objectively rate themselves in order to reveal their own shortcomings first, before pointing a subjective boney digit at the supposed deficiencies of the professor in question". I wonder why she's so fired up over some stupid ratings that students left for a professor.
By the way, ratemyprofessor.com never works for me. The professors who got negative ratings always end up my as my favorite, and the "hot", easy and nice ones get on nerves.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 5:10 PM angry lesbian, maybe? —plurry |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Edited Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 5:12 PM She should stick to what she does best: tonguing female assholes. That goes for all of you, too! —ItHadToBeJew |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 5:16 PM lol buttbreath —plurry |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 5:46 PM I sort of hate the rate my professor sites. People are more motivated to talk if they have an axe to grind. —bguirk |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 5:48 PM right. it's like a comment box at a store. 9 out of 10 are when peeps are pissed enough to grab a pen. —plurry |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 5:53 PM If you look at the reviews with that in mind, they're still very useful. Just looking at physics profs at ASU who I know a tad about, the ones with the crappiest ratings really do seem to be the worst instructors (which surprisingly seems to correlate very strongly with specializing in physics education). The best ones may get a crappy review or two here and there, but overall they seem to get a lot of good reviews. —anobody |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 5:56 PM I've come to realize that most professors that I've had are not the nicest people. Many are extremely judgemental, and they're always ready to get on your case about being a slacker. Which is not true, cause I don't consider myself or my peers to be spolied, lazy and have everything handed down to us. —adams_babymomma |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:05 PM my uncle's students have rated him on that site, and it's pretty accurate. he is pompous and absent-minded. —TortillaFactory |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:07 PM
Edited Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:14 PM Which is not true, cause I don't consider myself or my peers to be spolied, lazy and have everything handed down to us. Think about drake and reconsider your thoughts. edit: let me amend that. Now that I'm a 3 semesters into things I've noticed that the younger people in my cohort aren't lazy, but fuck do they complain a bunch. They seem to want the inspiring teacher from stand and deliver to be up there --well inspiring them. Professors have other things to do than teach--they have to research, publish, and some have to go after money. They also have to develop curriculum and defend their programs. We're not going to the movies to be entertained--it's supposed to be pushing you and you should be taking responsibility for your own learning. —bguirk |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:09 PM just seems like one would be more likely to take the time to say something negative than positive. i think it'd be a better measure if each student were required to leave a comment upon completion. —plurry |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:14 PM Teacher Arrested After Offering Good Grades For Oral Sex Thursday, December 20, 2007 BARTOW, Fla. -- Police say a Bartow High School student hoping to improve her math grades through extra credit instead got a lewd request from her teacher. Isaac Nathan Tillis was arrested after repeatedly telling student she could earn an "A" if she gave him oral sex. He lured the girl into a teacher's lounge bathroom on Wednesday, but once inside police and the girl sprung a trap. The 16-year-old was wearing a hidden listening device, which recorded Tillis' proposition after he dropped his pants, police say. The 29-year-old teacher had also scribbled his request on a hall pass, an arrest report states. Officers arrested Tillis and charged him with soliciting a lewd sex act from a minor. ADMIN: [ Delete Message : Warn User : Warn Super Admin ]
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:16 PM ratemyprof and other sites like it don't exactly follow the "comment card" rule. many students, like me, make a habit out of leaving comments for every teacher we've had. others comment only for great or awful teachers. the end result is a fairly accurate idea of how your teacher's going to be; i've never run into any glaring inaccuracies. my only complaint is that most commentators left me vastly unprepared for exactly how annoying my guitar teacher at the JC was going to be. (he did have bad ratings, though.) —TortillaFactory |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:41 PM most of my professors have been very good, but i mean, i go to a good school. i have to say, my screenwriting professor was incredibly unprofessional and i wrote that in his teacher evaluation. —mandeemoo22 |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:48 PM ^ my screenwriting prof did a distance course, and he fucking misspelled everything in his online "handouts" and could barely express himself. what kind of writer could he possibly be? the plus side was, he was a very easy grader because he failed 3rd grade grammar. p.s. he was an extra in the broken chain —TortillaFactory |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:53 PM i don't understand why this guy was hired. he hasn't even written anything, except for like one late night movie on the sci-fi channel awhile ago. he taught us directly out of a book, but when someone would say that something in the book didn't make since, he'd say well, that's because the author is an idiot. so why would he be teaching it to us? most of the people in the class weren't creative writing majors, except for me and one other girl. he took us aside after class and told us that he could tell that we weren't very invested in the class and he was sorry that he lost us and he felt like he failed us, and it was so awkward and we had no idea what to say. he was just so desperate for people to like him and he let the class turn to complete anarchy. we barely did any writing either. —mandeemoo22 |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 6:59 PM The guy who taught my research paper class was like that, too. He was so desperate for people to like/love/understand him, that he spent the entire quarter on ONE NOVEL (Fahrenheit 451) trying to get everyone to participate. The class was a prereq for graduation, so there were a bunch of stupid jocks in there complaining about how they weren't going to get their degrees because they kept forgetting to apply for graduation. —TortillaFactory |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 7:23 PM Speaking of graduation, my school requires us to apply 5 semesters before. Weird.. at JC you applied in the begining of the semester that you were planning on graduating. You know sometimes i do miss JC and all of it's uncomplicating rules.
Think about drake and reconsider your thoughts.
I thought he had a disabilty and cancer?
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 8:01 PM I thought he had a disabilty and cancer? His cancer is in remission and his only disabilities that I'm aware of are self-imposed. I've come to realize that most professors that I've had are not the nicest people. Many are extremely judgemental, and they're always ready to get on your case about being a slacker. Which is not true, cause I don't consider myself or my peers to be spolied, lazy and have everything handed down to us. Coming *almost* from the other end of that, I think you don't realize that most professors are forced to teach huge classes with so many students that it's not even remotely feasible for them to take a lot of time and care with individual students. If they want to help you, they've got to do it in the most expedient way possible (which is not often the nicest). Also, once you've gone through something yourself, it's hard to have much sympathy for people who try to nag and whine their way into better grades especially when it looks like they're not really trying (and keep in mind that if someone is a professor, they probably did pretty well in school, and it can be difficult to understand that some people struggle even when they try their best). fuck do they complain a bunch This is a horrible thing. Not much worse than a student who wants to spend ten times the time and effort trying to talk you into "giving" them a better grade than they earned. When I've taught, my response to that has always been to go over whatever they want me to recheck with a fine toothed comb. Even if they lost a point they shouldn't have, it's usually trivial to find several others that weren't marked off but should have been. Somehow you don't get many repeat complainers once they figure that out. you should be taking responsibility for your own learning Repeated for emphasis. i've never run into any glaring inaccuracies Nor have I. The worst I've seen is that occasionally there's one glaringly biased report by a student who obviously wasn't happy with their grade or had some other grudge against the prof. In my experience, those seem to be by far the exception, and it doesn't take any effort to spot and ignore them.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 10:23 PM If they want to help you, they've got to do it in the most expedient way possible (which is not often the nicest). I have found if you show you care a little it goes a long way. Most profs have office hours and they usually spend them eating lunch and counting tumbleweeds at a lot of schools. Just saying hi even gets you somewhere sadly. —bguirk |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 10:37 PM the professors at my school are all required to have office hours. i only go to the professors' that i want to sleep with, hoping that i'll just go in for a quick question and then before i know it, our pants are off. i hate that all male english professors are gay or married. it really hurts my plans. —mandeemoo22 |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 10:38 PM
Edited Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 10:39 PM I think the requirement for office hours is pretty standard. I have found if you show you care a little it goes a long way. Most profs have office hours and they usually spend them eating lunch and counting tumbleweeds at a lot of schools. Just saying hi even gets you somewhere sadly. I'm not trying to defend a-holes like that - all I'm saying is that even if you have the best intentions, time is seriously constrained for most profs, and there are plenty of students who don't seem at all motivated and whose strategy for passing seems to be limited to begging their instructors for mercy. —anobody |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 10:39 PM I fucking hate going to office hours. Mostly because if I were a teacher, I would want everyone to leave me the fuck alone. Mom would always pressure me to go, and sometimes I would pretend to have gone just to appease her. I HATE YOU MOM. —TortillaFactory |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 10:42 PM The thing I used to hate most about office hours was that I'd have to hold them but most of the time nobody would bother showing. —anobody |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 10:48 PM my american presidency prof used to complain that no one would come to his office hours, so i came to one of his, to ask him to go over the midterm and then as we all know, i was hoping that one thing would lead to another etc. i was so nervous though that i just sat there and nodded as he talked. when i walked into his office, he was looking at pictures of eddie murphy online. i email my professors all the time and they are usually pretty good about getting back to me quickly, except for my adviser who never writes back. i would switch advisers, but i can't because he's so cute. there's something wrong with me. —mandeemoo22 |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 12:03 PM I'm too scared to go to office hours. I don't being alone with an older person.
anyways God was watching over my econ prof. when he was calculating my grade. I got a C-, and i didn't even study for a 300 point final. C- is really bad, but hey at least I passed.
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 12:21 PM I'm too scared to go to office hours. I don't being alone with an older person. —adams_babymomma I'm picturing him saying "TITS or GTFO" and laughing. —ZT Spice |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Edited Friday, December 21, 2007 at 12:38 PM I'm picturing him saying "TITS or GTFO" and laughing. —ZT Spice No, it's not that. Everytime I walk in thier office, they fold thier arms and cross thier legs and look up at me from under thier glasses. They have this blank stare on their face and the first thing that comes out thier mouths is "well, did you study?" <===================== I HATE THAT QUESTION! So i just figured, that I can calculate my own grade, and that I have no right to complain about a test grade. Actually NO ONE has a right to complain about a test grade, unless the majority of the class fails.
I've noticed that many students get so upset with the prof. because they got a bad grade. They need to realize that they're the ones who don't have enough knowledge about the subject, which caused them a low grade.
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 8:44 PM They have this blank stare on their face and the first thing that comes out thier mouths is "well, did you study?" <===================== I HATE THAT QUESTION! Oh dear god. DO NOT go in to complain about a grade. Go in to lay the groundwork that you are a serious student. Take it for someone who graded papers--you deserve what you get 99.999999% of the time. When you go to meet the prof. go in to clarify what they want from an assignment, clarify a point made in class, say "I'm interested in topic x, what other classes should I look at." If you don't do this you're just another face in the apathetic complaining non-material-reading crowd. Just by stopping in you become someone who cares--I bet if someone studied it it's at least worth half a grade. —bguirk |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 8:48 PM i have gone to complain about a grade, but i got it changed, so i left being all mission accomplished. —mandeemoo22 |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 8:53 PM I hate the people who cave and change grades when students bitch about them. They're like the assholes who buy Enzyte and crap from SPAM - if it wasn't for them, then the rest of us would be spared from the aggravation because it wouldn't be worth it. —anobody |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 8:58 PM on tests, sometimes i give answers that i think are right, but the professor thinks are wrong, so i have to go and tell him why i wrote what i wrote and usually they'll give me some points back. i don't understand what is so bad about that. —mandeemoo22 |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:06 PM They're like the assholes who buy Enzyte and crap from SPAM - if it wasn't for them, then the rest of us would be spared from the aggravation because it wouldn't be worth it. —anobody LOL. You'll be happy to know that I never caved (and I'll never grade again unless I'm getting paid professor money--worst job ever). Profs could help themselves out by spreading things out--essays count 20%, seminar discussion 20%, ect. that way no one paper will sink a student and they have less incentive to bitch. I have never asked for a higher grade other than when the scan-tron f'd up. —bguirk |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:07 PM
Edited Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:09 PM worst job ever I've seen quite a few episodes of Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs and yet I can say with confidence that truer words have never been spoken. i don't understand what is so bad about that. There seem to be two categories of people who do that. The first (which I'm guessing Lena falls into) get a crappy grade and try to talk their way up to a slightly less crappy grade they don't really deserve. The second (which I'm guessing you fall into) get a good grade and try to eek out an extra point or two that's neither here nor there in terms of their final grade. Either way, it's a waste of the instructor's time and more than a little bit annoying (especially when you've got a long line of people doing the same thing). —anobody |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:19 PM It's not like they are doing anything else. That's what office hours are for. I've never gone to anyone's office hours when anyone else has been there. Plus, those extra points matter to me. I would also be willing to sleep with the professors, but no one has offered yet. —mandeemoo22 |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:20 PM I can't emphasize enough that you will get better grades if you take that time that you're grubbing for grades and show you're interested in the subject (which is still grubbing for grades, but in a way your teachers prefer). I learned it very late in my undergrad, but showing you care goes such a long way. I had a prof call me up and say "I think you're really close with this paper--if you change a few things I can give you an A." I never asked her to do it, I never spoke a word about grades to her, but I did come to her and ask her advice about what I was writing about. I completely bombed a test this semester--got what must've been close to the worst grade in the class, and the prof whose office I have been to at least three times in the last year hand delivered the test, said "don't worry about it--you got the important ones right, this won't hurt your grade, and stop by if you have any questions after you've gone over it." Again--I've never initiated a conversation about grades with her. The only time you should even ever mention the word "grade" with your teacher is if you're consistently doing poorly and then you should say "What do I need to do improve my performance." It's a good strategy on the job too--you would never walk up to your boss and say "you didn't give me enough credit for xyz." —bguirk |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:25 PM compassionate teachers will often bump up your grades if you are involved and trying hard. when it came down to a few points that meant the difference between an A and an A-, my psych teacher gave me points I didn't really deserve because she liked me. plus because the project that dragged my grade down was ruined by my fucking insane schizoid partner who refused all my good ideas and came up with her own lame one. which genuinely wasn't my fault, so i'm not exactly sure how it goes when you just screw up on your own. —TortillaFactory |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:27 PM
Edited Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:32 PM There's a fine line between being compassionate and being a wishy-washy little pussy who lets their students push them around because they've got no spine or they just want to be liked. Again - think about it like what BG was saying about working. Even if bitching to your boss about how you should have gotten an epsilon better on your evaluation achieves that, it's likely to leave a bad taste in their mouth and hurt you much more than it helps in the long run. That's what office hours are for No - office hours are so they can help you actually work to be able to do better on your own. It's not an opportunity for you to grovel. [plus what BG said] —anobody |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:32 PM I never said I was groveling. I go to go over my tests/papers to ask why they took off points for something that I thought I should have gotten points for. Then we go over it and I can explain what I meant. It's not like I go in there and cry and whine. —mandeemoo22 |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:33 PM To-may-toe / to-mah-toe. It might not *feel* like groveling to you, but it sure as hell does to them. —anobody |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:38 PM
Edited Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:39 PM well whatever, they'll just have to deal with it. if they don't like it then they shouldn't tell us to come to their office hours to talk about the tests. —mandeemoo22 |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:42 PM That is a truly awesome attitude. Just for arguments sake though - you might find that you do better to just show that you're actually interested in learning the material and if you do go in, limit yourself to asking questions about the stuff you don't quite understand. If you really must have those few points, you could always just ask them to explain what you did wrong because you "really want to understand things" - that way, if you deserved your marks, you actually learn something, and if they made a mistake in grading, they can find it on their own and feel magnanimous by giving you a couple of extra points that you didn't even ask for. Seems like more of a win-win to me. —anobody |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:51 PM
Edited Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:52 PM It might not *feel* like groveling to you, but it sure as hell does to them. —anobody mandee is at least going about it in probably the best way possible, but until you've looked at a stack of 30+ essays or tests and gotten through them with a minor thread of your sanity left and given them the best effort you're humanly capable of... to be asked to go over them again because some overachiever got an A- or an idiot who deserved a D is complaining about their C+ is sort of a slap in the face at best. As much time as you put in writing something it probably takes half as much time to grade but multiplied by the number of students in the class. The minutia of difference between the A- and A is not going to keep you out of some grad program or stop a teacher from writing a recommendation for you, but giving the impression that all you care about is grades will. —bguirk |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:55 PM And just for emphasis, I'd like to add that (in practical terms) the difference between an A and an A- means about zilch. It's not gonna keep you out of a good school, and it's not gonna keep you from getting a good scholarship (unless you're going for something obscenely competitive and you're in the top 0.001%... which you're probably not). Once you realize that, it's pretty clear that protecting your four-point is just vanity. —anobody |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:57 PM
Edited Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:58 PM And to be fair to the graded masses--professors do a horrible job communicating their feelings about all of this and I don't remember anyone ever explaining the subtleties of office hours or how little grades matter the higher you go. Profs hate grading so much that they never talk about it and pay the consequences. —bguirk |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 9:59 PM You do have a point :-) —anobody |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 10:02 PM
Edited Friday, December 21, 2007 at 10:02 PM just to clarify, I never asked my psych teacher for anything, she chose to give me extra points all on her own. I had no idea until I checked my grade on the final against my course grade and it didn't match up, then I asked her and she told me. just being a good student is the best way to get favors like this, I imagine, although sometimes you have to ask for what you want. the only time I asked a teacher to look something over again was a one-proof calc quiz where I was 100% sure I was right, and he gave me a zero. (I was.) —TortillaFactory |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 10:06 PM I was about to say something, but I don't remember what it was. i feel like i'm about to puke. —mandeemoo22 |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 10:07 PM Just to clarify on my end--When I did the A/A- thing I wasn't talking about TF. I was talking about one of the many now faceless 19-20 year olds from last year. The D/C+ thing was a frat guy. —bguirk |
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Friday, December 21, 2007 at 10:07 PM and just to clarify something else - the one exception to the nagging rule is when there's a legitimate and significant discrepancy between earned and actual recorded grades profs and graders aren't perfect and every once in awhile scores get shifted around in the spreadsheet or there's an addition error (or the TA just bought a new calculator that has a great "feature" that prevents accidental entry by ignoring repeated key presses that come too close together - which is great if a parkinsonian with physical turrets is using the thing, but doesn't do so well when said TA is just freaking fast with the typing and actually meant to hit the same key twice that quickly, and so half of the grades in a class of 150 were off by 10 points out of 100 - not that I'm speaking from experience, of course). —anobody |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 8:44 AM
Edited Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 8:45 AM >>Once you realize that, it's pretty clear that protecting your four-point is just vanity. I always enjoyed my 4.0, but I also always just accepted whatever grade I got. If it was something objective, I could tell I had answered incorrectly. If it was something subjective, I didn't feel like I was in a position to change their minds. —chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 9:03 AM chix0r, you just keep getting hotter and hotter. —ZT Spice |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 11:43 AM I've only ever gone to professors' office hours to go over my tests to see why I got answers wrong, because I knew I would need to know the information for the next tests and the final. I just took the grade I got on the test and used it to motivate myself to do better on the next tests. Also it is easier for me to ask profs questions over email or in office hours than after class, when they only have 5 minutes before their next class. Plus I think it lets them know that I care about doing well in their class and I'm interested in what they're teaching. The only bad time I have had with a professor is when I set up a time to go over my tests with my old Behaviorism prof, and then I came to his office and he just shoved the tests at me and said he had some faculty meeting in half an hour and to give them to the secretary when I was done looking at them. He wasn't the best professor, he just taught from the book and wasn't really friendly. I retook his Behaviorism class this year with a new younger professor and she was really great. I got a B in it this time to replace the D I got previously, and I told her how she was a better teacher and I learned a lot more than I had before. Not kissing ass because I told her this stuff after I knew I had the B in the class. I actually used examples from Loveline to help me study for the first test. My parents used to make me go to this study hall after school in middle school but I would just talk to my friends throughout it and once the teacher called my house because she was so upset about me talking. I finished all my work but I had to stay for the whole hour so I would just talk the rest of the time. —John Lennon |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 12:44 PM I can't emphasize enough that you will get better grades if you take that time that you're grubbing for grades and show you're interested in the subject
I agree wholeheartly! Througout the 3 years of CC and one semester at the four year, I've only had ONE prof. who wouldn't tell us our grades during the semester. In fact he didn't even have a grade rubric. Everytime students asked him where they stood in the class, he told them to just focus on the material, and quit worrying about a grade. He said "If you focus on that, your grade will reflect it". I wish more prof. are like that.
A lot of professors make the mistake of discussing grades on the first day of class, and thier strict grade cut-offs. If they would would say "do all your work, and study for the tests, then you can get an A"..more students would be motivated, knowing that they can do good, if they do good work. —adams_babymomma |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 12:56 PM I just checked my grades for this last semester and somehow I got an A- in the american presidency and there is no way i should have gotten that grade. I got a 78 on the midterm and nothing higher than a 90 on any of the papers. I highly doubt my final paper was that great because it was supposed to be 10-13 pages and mine was about a sentence on the 10th page. His office hours were the only ones that i went to because i originally had a 70 on the midterm. Maybe he really does want to sleep with me. He's so cute, guys. —mandeemoo22 |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 1:12 PM he might have curved the term and final. or he wants to sleep with you. I think you should pay him another office visit. —adams_babymomma |
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chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 1:18 PM I got an A in student teaching, so I officially graduate with a 4.0. —chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 1:22 PM
Edited Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 1:23 PM ^are you nervous about going back to H.S and having to deal with high school society? Or is it much different when you're a teacher. That's cool that you're 21 and already starting a professional career. None of my high school teachers were in thier 20's.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 1:24 PM
Edited Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 1:26 PM Nah. It's a little weird trying to discipline the kids, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it. And I only have 80 of them (140 when I student taught), so that's going to be awesome. Not so awesome is the fact that I have to switch rooms every hour. From a student teaching perspective, I didn't have to try to fit in and act cool or anything; certainly not with the kids, but not with the teachers, either. There are a lot of teachers who are kind of stand-offish and don't participate in the group activities, and no one ostracizes them, so I think peer relationships will be fine. —chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 3:03 PM
Edited Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 3:04 PM Everytime students asked him where they stood in the class, he told them to just focus on the material, and quit worrying about a grade That reminds me of one of my least favorite but most often asked questions - "what do I have to get on the final to get an X in the class?"... where occasionally X would be C or even D. —anobody |
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chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 4:22 PM A D is passing. You have to get an F (fail) in order to..fail. —chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 4:26 PM at my school, you get regular credit for a D, but you don't get credit for your major. So, if you got a D for a class that you need to complete your major, you'd have to take it again. But, if you get a D in anything anyway, I'm pretty sure you're put on some kind of academic probation. —mandeemoo22 |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 4:37 PM Well then why are they making me repeat geology? It's not part of my major. Is it because they don't accept D's from CC? —adams_babymomma |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 4:37 PM that's retarted. either you pass or you don't, one would think.
seems black and white to me. —plurry |
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chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 4:49 PM At my school a D in your major doesn't count toward the major, but you don't get put on any sort of probation. If it's just a gen ed class, a D is fine. —chix0r |
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plurry |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 4:56 PM call me crazy, but they might as well call a D (in major) an F and not a D if a D is actually just a glorified F. —plurry |
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adams_babymomma |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 5:11 PM they should not give credit for a D if it's whithin your major. A lot of students get confused because they recieved credit but they still failed.
Fill in the blank
Looking at lena's grades I can conclude that lena ___________
ECON 2510 001 Principles of Micro Economics C- ETHS 4200 001 The Minority Experience C+
MATH 1610 003 Statistics for Decision Making B
MUS 3400 001 American Music B
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chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 5:18 PM Made a good decision by switching to a communications major. >>call me crazy, but they might as well call a D (in major) an F and not a D if a D is actually just a glorified F. Well, technically you do get credit for the class. So, if you happened to switch your major, it would help you in terms of elective credits, which are required. —chix0r |
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plurry |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 5:29 PM oic. it makes more sense now. —plurry |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 6:18 PM We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station.
While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather,
The flies and spiders get along together,
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record. Beyond the suns that guard this roof,
Beyond your flowers of flaming truths,
Beyond your latest ad campaigns,
An old man sits collecting stamps
In a room all filled with Chinese lamps.
He saves what others throw away.
He says that he'll be rich some day. We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station. We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station.
While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather,
The flies and spiders get along together,
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 6:28 PM In that case, the sopranos soundtrack is teh awsum. —catloaf |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 7:34 PM I got an A in student teaching, so I officially graduate with a 4.0. —chix0r I just checked my grades and I got a 7.268 this term so I'm better. Nyah. —bguirk |
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chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Edited Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 7:41 PM 7.2 out of what though? That's why I had to put 4.2 / 4.0 on my resume. —chix0r |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 7:47 PM
Edited Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 7:48 PM well I guess ratemyprofessor forum does not agree with what I posted. I think Bguirk needs to go in there and let the truth be known!
and yes i did steal the last sentence from bguirks' post.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 7:50 PM 7.2 out of what though? Supposedly we're on a 9 point scale, but I have not talked to anyone who has ever received an A+. Maybe undergrads get them. Maybe if I ever published. —bguirk |
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adams_babymomma |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 7:54 PM well I'm just glad I passed my math class, or else I would have been sent back to CC. I would have never been able to walk on the same ground as my crush. —adams_babymomma |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 8:00 PM
and yes i did steal the last sentence from bguirks' post.
—adams_babymomma I'm flattered. After a few dog walks to think this over--it's more about shifting the relationship from the teacher/student dynamic to the junior/senior colleague dynamic. Probably hard to do when you're Freshman/Sophomore but it's at least plausible when you hit your 20's. There's definitely still people who treat me like a student and I'm sure Ano still gets treated that way from time to time (and gets pissed when it happens), but for the most part if you approach things that way the grades sort of fall in line after that. —bguirk |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 8:43 PM have any of you ever cried in front of a teacher? i haven't, but that just seems horribly embarrassing. —mandeemoo22 |
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 8:56 PM I'm a little behind the curve here but I wanted to say that at ASU you need a C to get credit for your major and at the graduate level, you need a B for the class to count. —anobody |
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