# College Education & Rating Your Professors: Were you awake in your English class? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-education-rating-your-professors-were-you-awake-in-your-english-class/348776 "2006-03-17T17:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-education-rating-your-professors-were-you-awake-in-your-english-class/348776/41 "2006-03-19T09:50:20Z")
We have an online bulletin board for one of my (3rd year) courses for uni, someone posted about wondering if the lecturer could have a look at drafts. Someone replied: > [@](#): > > My cat’s breath smells like cat food. Not kidding. Other classics include all caps responses; and this classic addressed to the professor (shortened to LB for some reason by this idiot): > [@](#): > > For: n e 1 or LB > So Digoxin inhibits the the sodium potassium atpase pump. How does Digoxin then result in hypokalemia if all its doin is stopping the pumping of potassium back into the cell? If k+ in the extracellular space is considered blood k+ then it should be hyperkalemia? Maybe its because digoxin increases Cardiac output and therefor renal blood flow and some how the potassium is lost via the increased urine production? Can anybody help out. Thanks I want to kill these people. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-education-rating-your-professors-were-you-awake-in-your-english-class/348776/42 "2006-03-19T11:06:34Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > I remember being called an “overachiever” by someone in the back of the class when they saw the work I turned in during midterms. I just directed my best fuck you smile to the back of the class room. Some people seem shocked to find that other students at college are there to put in some effort and learn something. > > I don’t trust those teacher rating websites. I’ve heard to many students complain about instructors who take points off for late papers or require proper citation of sources. It’s ridiculous. > > Marc My uni has own ratings site. My favorite profs have had low ratings on that site because they expect people to work for their grade. Oh, and I have the “fuck you” on my diploma. It’s the gold sticker that says “magna cum laude”. Robin ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-education-rating-your-professors-were-you-awake-in-your-english-class/348776/43 "2006-03-19T14:03:40Z")
I had a quick look to see if the English prof I hated most was still teaching. (Most of my class assumed he was only there for the faculty discount – his son was in our year.) He is, and he’s gotten comments such as this: > [@](#): > > Easy class, but all you do is sit there and listen to the prof talk about the books…gets boring. People skip a lot! > [@](#): > > If you want to be able to participate a lot, then this might not be the one for you… Every freshman had to take a one-semester Frosh English class. My schedule for 2nd semester only allowed me to take his class. A buddy of mine told me a horror story from first semester: The first assignment he gave involved handing everyone in class a print of a famous painting and having them write an in-class essay about it. My buddy got “Starry Night” by Van Gogh. He didn’t really care for it, and wrote so. Buddy got an F because he didn’t like the painting. (The prof actually wrote something to that effect on the paper.) He ended up going to the dean and getting out of that class as fast as he could. When I took the class the next semester, the prof spread all of the prints on the table in front and had us choose one we liked. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-education-rating-your-professors-were-you-awake-in-your-english-class/348776/44 "2006-03-19T14:40:57Z")
This is the rating for one of my old economics professors. > [@](#): > > I like the adams family Yyyyeah. And for one of my old psych professors: > [@](#): > > I felt like Richard Kimble looking for the one-armed man in trying to find him at his office. And another: > [@](#): > > He was very intersting (and _not just_ to look @, although that did help!), very smart, and funny! Great class…all should take it! 🙂 Ahh, pretty much every rating for this professor mentions how “hot” he is. Other comments include: “HOT!” “sexy” “yummmy”… jeez. I was trying to attribute the use of the @ to a low character limit, but then I realised that the asterisks around the “_not just_” completely ruin that theory. Unless the writer is an arsebucket. I liked him because he was a joker. His lectures were in Powerpoint format, and he would put up Powerpoint presentations with lines such as: The course materials are now available in the bookstore. _pause_ Each is worth $300. _entire class gasps_ But only costs $20. And: Today _pause_ The first test of the year _entire class gasps again_ of course is not happening. The people who give low scores just because the professors are old bother me. One of my favourite professors got this comment: > [@](#): > > A complete \*\*\*\*! Totally old school closed minded and unreasonable. So glad to see him leave. Not personable at all, probably more so with bees and insects in his concrete jungle of an office in the dank LSC.Out with the old and in with the new!! Not personable at all? Untrue. Closed minded? Even more untrue. Wow. I wonder what put a bee up this commenter’s arse? This guy was older, yes, but only in years. I learned so much in his course! Here’s another one: > [@](#): > > Boring lectures. Deffinately read the book. Deffinately learn how to spell “definitely”. I really don’t know where everyone is coming up with all these different spellings of the word! [myprofessorsucks.com](http://myprofessorsucks.com) misspells the name of my home province as Novia Scotia. Hah. I will now register [myprofessorsucksdotcomsucks.com](http://myprofessorsucksdotcomsucks.com) as revenge. Also, bwahaha: my ex-boyfriend’s mom is rated as “hot”. She actually is pretty, but it’s still funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-education-rating-your-professors-were-you-awake-in-your-english-class/348776.md?page=2)