#professors

“Don’t use AI to answer homework/lab questions.” -my dementia ridden cankle McTacotits ahh science professor after USING AI ON ALL HER LAB INSTRUCTIONS AND EVERYTHING WITHOUT PROOFREADING SHIT. DISCLAIMER I DONT USE AI.

and then she has the GALL TO MAKE US REDO THE LABS WHEN SHE/AI FUCKS UP THE INSTRUCTIONS. Who do I write to in order to request a ban on ai use from professors when they abuse it?? It’s a tool, not a REPLACEMENT FOR WRITING ASSIGNMENTS.. I can pretty much figure out anything not math related myself, but why is my professor marking ME DOWN when SHE FAILS TO GIVE THE CORRECT DETAILS?! I’ve even taken a lab I missed to a tutor who is knowledgeable about the subject and he couldn’t even figure it out.. and then she says “I don’t remember what that lab was about so I can’t help you.” THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR JOB?? WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE??

Did you see the previous ask? Where it was recommended - it’s on a03 - can you download it from there?

Remote Learning by izwordsoup

Kurt and Blaine are NYU Tisch Drama professors. They’re also married with two kids. They usually don’t tell students that part, for the sake of keeping some of their personal life private. But when there’s a blizzard that snows everyone in at home for a few days and classes temporarily move online, sometimes there’s no choice but to reveal some pieces of their lives.

Also doing the @februaryficletchallenge for the fifth year in a row! (Never mind that it’s February 15 and I’ve only done two stories so far lol.)

My first entry was for the prompt Academia AU, where C.J. and Toby are professors meeting up at a bar after their respective academic conferences and thinking about giving dating another go.

Hope you like it!

The Study of Us

I love my baroque ensemble professor, he really just said, “so many things happened in 1749” in the same tone people talk about 2020

Props to those kids for participating in a conversation that mightve made them uncomfortable for the sake of education. They didnt have to do that but they made a difference that day. We need more professors and teachers like this one.

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This professor dressed up as Gandalf to announce the students that failed.

Professor 1: Memorize this entire taxonomy chart by next week. Spelling counts. Papers due every week plus the overall paper at the end of the semester with 10 sources. 4 tests on top of that.

Professor 2: Here are some numbers. Analyze them however you want. Due at uh… end of the month, I guess.

the lineup of professors i got this semester are GREAT. i’ve got

-a faceblind ginger man who made everyone say “UWU” with him.

-a middle-aged woman trying to be hip by telling everyone to start listening to podcasts.

-a sweet older man that looks and acts like he was pulled out of a stock image for “college professor”.

-a guy in his sixties or so with mad scientist hair and he/they pronouns who obliterated his chalk multiple times by writing in a delirious fervor.

-a woman who’s teaching everyone to teach grammar and ends up running the class like it’s fourth grade because that’s where half of the class will be teaching.

Absolutely stellar lineup, 10/10, no notes from me.

Small win!

Emails can be so hard and so scary. But, unfortunately it’s something we have to do. So good job on that!

Here’s a tip for everyone on that, find an email template and keep it where you can reference it regularly. It will probably help your overthinking.

Also good luck on your test anon!

You’re doing great! Keep it up!

I don’t care much for College/University professors who disrespect student’s interests or proclivities especially when those students are on the autism spectrum. Those are the things that inspired the student and motivates them to keep going.

I’ve had some flat out calling their students crazy for working and hobbying in the same or similar fields of interest.. That’s literally what neurodivergent people do!

So I was in the ER last night in incredible pain (because of spinal fluid building up in my brain), hair a complete mess, no bra, face bright red and in the beginning stages of anaphylaxis because all of the nurses and doctors I encountered had strong perfume on… and a hospital worker comes in to take my insurance information.

She takes a look at my name and I see her eyes widen… and then she turns to me excitedly and is like “Wait… this is gonna sound crazy… is your dad a professor here?!”

And I have no idea about what I was saying (see: extreme pain), but I think she was asking me a bunch of questions about his work and wanting to work in his lab, and I just automatically answered while not having any idea about what was going on.

She was really sweet, but omggggg girl… I was not in a presentable state enough to know what the hell I was saying. I kept trying to smile and nod but it came out really twisted because of the waves of debilitating pain.

This town is way too small.

y'all want to hear the most ridiculous shit I’ve heard in probably a month?

So I give in an essay about our one and only Dante Alighieri to my literature professor. She reads it, explains to me places in text where I should fix mistakes, all that jazz, recommends to redo it, I’m a bit disappointed but like okay, sure.

Than she stares me dead into the eye and goes “DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO CAN WRITE GOOD?” Translation - “do you know someone who can rewrite this normally?”

I literally had no words for like few second. Ma'am, I write books since 11. I already wrote a full, 104 606 words original book. I love writing. I love Dante. I SERIOUSLY DO NOT WRITE THAT BAD.

The saddest part of it is that even though it was just quite a boring essay I did in like, an hour just to get rid of it to GET BACK TO WRITING MY BOOK I really start rethinking my life choices and writing part of life in general.

But I really cannot not to write. Physically.

rate my professor having a 350 character limit on ratings like its old twitter is so mean, they’re trying to stop me from emphasizing how good or bad my damn teachers are, let me be verbose as I describe how this art history teacher graded two finals from a totally different semester as missing and completely fucked my grade for like three weeks and then didn’t even respond to my email questioning it

tell me about your crazy stem professors

shout out my professor who was in uchicago’s physics graduate program and competing for a phd who accidentally set a wok on fire. then he proceeded to freak out and run around his apartment with this flaming wok until he had the genius epiphany to take it to the bath. he throws it in the bath and cranks the water and FWOOOOOOM fire fucking everywhere. why go to burning man festival when you can be in my professors bathroom who is raising hell in there. so obviously the correct and rational response to this disaster is to take the fucking wok and throw it out your high ass window, creating a parabolic flaming trajectory until it hits the ground like the world’s worst comet that nobody asked for. this man has a phd in physics and this was when he was in graduate school and yet somehow never heard the basic chemistry of not putting water on a grease fire. by the way he never checked to make sure the flaming wok didn’t hit anyone. he just closed the window and drew the curtains and took a nap mid-day. he never did go back for that wok either. he makes it a point to tell us every other class that his knowledge of chemistry is terrible but i didn’t need him to tell us after this story became public knowledge

Bio lab today. One group got a long lecture from he prof about how they needed to start learning how to apply the material from their classes when they asked him for help with an identification. My group looked at that sample after theirs. Not a single one of the identifying characteristics we covered in class was visible. We got it, but we had to use an elaborate process of elimination and I basically had to make up a dichotomous key on the spot. Anyway, a lab partner went to ask him if it was ok to do it that way because he specifically asked for two (there were zero) identifying characteristics from class to support our answers. He had put out the wrong sample. He approved my makeshift identification key as supporting evidence in lieu of the original criteria for the lab. Because again, it was impossible to make an identification using the method he asked for because the sample was too ambiguous. This is a biology class for teachers, by the way. We are not biologists. I’m just a nerd.

Anyway, going to have to check in with some classmates and make sure they know they apply their learning just fine and they failed the task because as given, it was impossible.

sometimes you have teachers that are almost the same age as you and they say shit like “lock in guys” or “ate” and you sit there for a minute completely lost

high school teachers: this behavior will not be tolerated in college!

my psych professors: what if i put a fish joke as extra credit on the exam?

Highly suggest having your friend group dress up as different professors plus a cockroach. Cause the other professors think it’s funny that your dressing up as their colleges, the professors you dressed up as will let you use his coffee mug as prop, and then everyone else just questions the random cockroach.

Its great guys :)

“I like the history of math because it shows us we’re not as stupid as we originally thought we were.”

While there are truly awful professors out there, I need people to know that a professor is not always being awful when they tell you “no.”

Professors have very tight deadlines when it comes to grading, so if you wait until *after* the due date of your final project and send an e-mail asking for an extension, I need you to understand what you’re asking for–You are asking your professor to wait to submit all the grades while you finish your work. You are asking them to risk getting in trouble so you can possibly pass the class. This is extra frustrating when your professor barely (if at all) heard from you in an 8-18 week semester. You need to understand that your professors are ALSO people. They have their own families, friends, hobbies, and goals outside of their work and their jobs can take away time from all of those things. Asking them to make a special accommodation for you takes even more time away from them.

So, yes, some professors are evil. But many of your professors have a lot on their plate and NEED to say “no” for their own sanity and peace. I don’t mean to sound judgemental, but please work more on taking responsibility for missing deadlines and learn from your mistakes to be better. It is not fun for us to have to explain why we cannot give you an extension at the last minute.