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:
Not kidding. Other classics include all caps responses; and this classic addressed to the professor (shortened to LB for some reason by this idiot):
I want to kill these people.
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
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:
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.
This is the rating for one of my old economics professors.
Yyyyeah.
And for one of my old psych professors:
And another:
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:
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:
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 misspells the name of my home province as Novia Scotia. Hah. I will now register myprofessorsucksdotcomsucks.com as revenge.
Also, bwahaha: my ex-boyfriend’s mom is rated as “hot”. She actually is pretty, but it’s still funny.