Mine made me write completely untrue lines using a black quill that carved the words into the back of my hand!
I got back at her, though! I gave her a terrible review on RateMyProfessor!
I had a Chicano literature professor that ranted about modern politics in Spanglish. She also distributed .PDFs of reading assignments that had been photocopied far too many times. Additionally, she had terrible handwriting that mixed upper and lower case as if Bobcat Goldthwait were writing.
Did we ever discuss our assignments?
Not really.
Did I learn any Spanish?
Actually, yes!
I looked up words she used in English that I did not know in Spanish!
I had just bought my first laptop so I could take notes far faster and legibly, but since class was a waste of time, I started writing up our reading assignments. I had her .PDF on one side of my screen and Word on the other.
She stood behind me and watched me work for an entire class.
When I finished, I was going to send her a .PDF of everything so she had something more professional to distribute, but three months in, we had our first test.
I earned 25%.
I have bombed tests and I regularly mess up, but I doubt that I have ever scored that poorly on anything.
I usually earned Bs on my papers, but I think my best score in her class was a D. I kept thinking "I do not know what is wrong, but I will just work harder" and then I earned another D or E.
I calculated that if I earned 100% on everything for the rest of the semester, I would earn a C for the course, but I would undoubtedly work extremely hard for a terrible grade.
Of course, we were well past the drop-add deadline.
In retrospect I should have visited her during office hours to ask about the first assignment and maybe I could have earned a C in that class, but I needed to choose between withdrawing from all of my classes even though I was doing well in the rest or accepting the failure and retaking it my last semester.
It was not offered my last semester.
Compared to Profesora Resentimiento, my current professor is just annoying.
- The Course Outline shows three assignment due the first week and none the rest, but we had two assignments each due the second and third week.
- The professor said "I know this is summer and you want to take vacation, but you are still responsible for all deadlines." However, the fourth and fifth week, when I went to check our assignments, we did not have anything because she is on vacation.
- She graded the first three assignments one week later, but not the five assignments that I submitted up to 17 days ago.
- When I took this class at ASU we had 37.5 hours of lecture, dozens of assignments due, tests, a group project, and a final. Last semester I had about 30 hours of lecture for one class, weekly assignments, five tests, and a final. For this class we have zero lectures, eight assignments, three quizzes, and a final.
The course outline is incomplete. The professor probably should have planned her vacation between the summer and the fall, or at least said "This is summer and you still need to make all deadlines, but I will be out-of-town the week of X, so you may choose to make plans for that time." Except it seems she took more than two weeks off out of an eight-week term. I do not have any idea how I am doing in this class. There are so few assignments that if I did poorly on the next couple I would have dropped the class.
My final complaint is that I honestly do not feel that I am learning anything.
This is my field.
This is my future.
I paid good money for this class and all that I can hope is that I at least earn an A, but I do not have any idea how likely that is.
What horror stories do you guys have?
[By the way, "Resentimiento" means "Umbrage]