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Can't remember her name, but I had issues with going to class in college, because I'm better at self learning than hearing a professor talk/read slides. Was a marketing class and she had a policy that if you missed x number of days you would begin to lose letter grades for every additional day you missed. Based upon tests/work completed I earned a B (maybe an A, can't remember) in that class, but based upon the number of days I missed I got a D. My fault for not going to class enough, but that's a stupid policy.

Calc 151: First year German research professor. He spent the entire first class drawing a picture of a lion in a cage and explaining how that was like an integral.

I attended 3-4 more classes and then skipped his class until the final. Went to Amy Austin's class instead. I could understand her. And she was easy on the eyes.

I cant remember any of my professors

hph6203 said:

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Can't remember her name, but I had issues with going to class in college, because I'm better at self learning than hearing a professor talk/read slides. Was a marketing class and she had a policy that if you missed x number of days you would begin to lose letter grades for every additional day you missed. Based upon tests/work completed I earned a B (maybe an A, can't remember) in that class, but based upon the number of days I missed I got a D. My fault for not going to class enough, but that's a stupid policy.

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Had a similar experience in a statistics class, don't remember the prof's name. I knew the material. I read the book, studied ahead, and went to work several times to make some extra money instead of going to her class. About halfway through the semester my car was broken into and my backpack was stolen. Inside was the syllabus for her class and that's before they were required to post them online. I sent her an email asking for another copy and she replied she would not give me one because I hadn't been going to class. ended up having to actually go to her class because I didn't know when the test dates were. Made an A, easily. But I hated her guts.

Don't remember her name, but it was a biology class of some kind and she could barely communicate in English at all, let alone on a technical level. Every single class she was in tears because people were getting angry with her because she didn't even really try to lecture, just showed slides and made vague gestures. I tried to stick it out, but made a D on the first test and dropped the class. Took it again the next year and made an A.

Anil Botinger (or something), physics 1 prof from India. Barely comprehensible English and stood in front of the the problems as he wrote them so no one could see the steps. Famous line was "I don't understand, if you just read the chapters you will make full marks" after class averaged 38 on the first exam.

Dr. Whatley for some AgEc computer class that covered Microsoft Office. The man was an absolute jerk. Everyone would talk about how much they hated him before each class. He would randomly call on you during class (several hundred in the class) to come to his computer and show the rest of the class how ro enter a formula. If you didn't know how to do it he would belittle and humiliate you in front of the class. I was never called on, but remember him making several girls cry.

I had professor of management or strategic management who was Hispanic. The case study we had included facts about education levels in Mexico and lower wages compared to US factories.

Our team decided to move this hypothetical factory to Mexico. We cited lower education levels and wages but good skill workers. His note on our B minus level paper next to the lower education level was " oh really". This guy sucked in general as a professor.

Easily Beltran who taught building systems in the college of architecture. Worst prof I ever had.

I remember so many things about college but could not pick single professor out of a lineup today.

I was in a student teaching block in the 70's, there were four who were absolute idiots, needlessly to say I didn't go into teaching!!!!

I never crossed my profs so they were all right. However, the most boring was Louise Darcey.

Don't remember his name, but he taught a Sociohorticulture class that counted as both a humanities and a social science class. He would call on students in class and pose theoretical questions on plants and society and he always went out of his way to call on one of my friends who had a major stutter. Poor guy was really smart, but just couldn't really communicate because of the stutter and he would sit there and struggle to speak. Prof called on him more than any other student.

Don't remember his name, but he was some Korean dude for a senior level economics course. Spoke pretty poor English and was an idiot.

I forgot his name but this was before A&M was coed. I had an 88 average and the next highest grade was a 60. We both got B's. I asked the professor wasn't that a difference enough to justify an A. He said he had never given an A in 25 years of being a professor. He said I'd come closer than anyone before though. In those days there wasn't anyone to complain to. I hated that guy but it in many ways served me well in life. Old cliche but true - life isn't fair.

hypeiv said:

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I had a bad geology teacher. He was a researcher who was pissed he was teaching a 100 level class for non geology majors and took it out on us.

Edit: now that I think about it, my sociology teacher was pretty bad. She gave us a final that had a bunch of stuff we never covered in class on it. I still got an A which is why I didn't think of it first but it was a pretty low move.

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There's an A&M geology prof on here who posts as Rockdoc.

Dragnomir Bukur - Chem E 205

Swim for Management (I don't remember the course number), business law. He wasn't a bad professor based on the metric of learning from him or being entertained during class. It was that his lectures had nothing to do with the test content...

Kinda like he was preparing you for the real world?

Dr Ostrovski. The guy was straight from Ukraine and completely unintelligible. He also didn't understand the concept that it's hotter in Texas than it is over there and why deodorant was important, so office hours were a bad idea.

I sat in on Amy Austin's class like pretty much everyone else did.

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Kinda like he was preparing you for the real world?

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Hi Professor Swim!

Don't remember his name but it was Philosophy 240 (somehow it was a math elective for my major). Made a B on the first test, and then he starts telling us that from here on out, his tests got harder and course average would drop a letter grade per exam.

Fast forward a week or so, and we turn in a weekly quiz. The next class, he goes off on the whole group saying no one made above a 75 and we had to be the stupidest class he has ever taught. After about 10 minutes of this, a buddy and I get up and walk out. He starts yelling at us to sit down. Me and my big mouth said "Screw you. I'm q-dropping this class and so should everyone else." As I walked out, several more folks followed me. I heard from Dr. Hesby later that a total of 20 dropped that section and the professsor was under department review for his performance and student treatment. Don't know if anything came of it...

PHIL 240 was probably Introduction to Logic. I took it in Fall '99, but our prof was a peach. Had an exam scheduled for the morning of November 18, but he flat out cancelled it due to Bonfire.

Madich (sp?) for MATH 122, in 1978. Refused to go through the steps of integration problems.

HYC_AG said:

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Swim for Management (I don't remember the course number), business law. He wasn't a bad professor based on the metric of learning from him or being entertained during class. It was that his lectures had nothing to do with the test content...

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Try being in Swim's class when someone stole a test and the final was made from scratch without any previous test questions. I think I memorized every picture caption for that one.

Bassichis

Claude! said:

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PHIL 240 was probably Introduction to Logic. I took it in Fall '99, but our prof was a peach. Had an exam scheduled for the morning of November 18, but he flat out cancelled it due to Bonfire.

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Yep, that was it. All corollaries and proofs. Hated it.

Briaud. Had an A in his class, but missed a lab to run the engineering career fair. Had a university-excused absence signed by the college dean. He had a policy that if you miss a lab, you automatically fail. Said there were no exceptions, and neither the department nor college (or the dean that signed the excuse letter) would overrule a tenured professor. Other sections of the lab weren't available outside career fair hours that semester for me to make it up.

Unrelated, but I also tutored his kid in high school and had some personal connections to him and his family and still didn't get any leniency. I was able to q-drop, but always wondered if a kid with a medical issue would also have been failed for missing a lab. I thought it was a total a-hole move to do that someone that was trying to help improve the college of engineering. I was only out my tuition, but that was a significant unplanned expense for me to retake the class back then. Since he was an a-hole to me, I have no problem letting people know that he struggled to pass the PE test and had to take it multiple times.

Ozden Ochoa, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Had her for a strength of materials class that she OBVIOUSLY thought was below her. Left lectures to TAs - was never available to help - belittled students who weren't "smart enough" to grasp concepts right away.

I did get my revenge, though. Years later, I oversaw an R&D contract for some materials testing that her grad students were performing at A&M. I RAKED HER OVER THE COALS at our first review - it became obvious pretty quickly she had been too busy to get too involved in this effort. I bled all over their preliminary report and made it pretty clear I thought she was giving the entire department a bad name.

Actually, the work wasn't all that bad but DAMN did we get a ton of even better data after that! The old Klingon proverb "revenge is a dish best served cold" is so true!

Can't remember his name, but economics prof who was very old in the mid 2000's. Would point using his whole hand. Loved to divide the class up into republicans and democrats to illustrate his socialism.

Money and Banking. can't remember his name. Was Argentinian and I couldn't understand a word he said because his accent was so strong.

He didn't assign a textbook because he was writing his own. So he placed two copies of chapters at Evans for us to go and check out and make copy. This was a class of 200+. I had to go to Evans right before closing to have any chance to actually check out that damn chapter. Most often I didn't get the copy. I should have complained to the Dean.

Literally a waste of a semester. I passed with a C, but was actually interested in the subject.

Bennett for Cost accounting - Class started with 30 people and after two weeks there were only 8 in the class. He was a ****ty professor and most bailed. Me and another guy made the top grades on every test. He had a 88 avg and I had an 86 average. Bennett gave us both B's. Back then we didn't do the +/- stuff they do today. We both went to him and tried to convince him that it was obvious we were the two best in the class and how does he not give us A's - you know, curve like every other prof in the university. He just said our averages were our averages. Guy was a huge jock sniffer and wanted to spend most of the class regaling us with his football team stories as he was an academic advisor to the team. He sucked.

Bassichus for Physics.

he wrote is his own text book that we had to buy which consisted entirely of the slides he would show in class and never explained any of the theory/reasons why needed to calculate anything that way.... and this was in 1989/1990 so you didn't have any additional resources like the freakin' internet to get that information.

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Bassichus for Physics.

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Hahaha hadn't thought of that dude in decades. I actually love physics but that a-hole almost ruined it all for me.