Stupid eleitest professor

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I never cared too much for my Producing and Directing professor, he was always a bit of a snob about things.

We had this big final project to do which was to produce a television show. The critique was today.

"Your program really shows a lack of creative design, and your set design could have been a lot better. You only got 4 out of 10 points on this"

Well no f$#@^&% s^&% our program could have had more creative design, you only gave us ONE F#$%@&^ WEEK TO PRODUCE THIS. REAL SHOWS SPEND MONTHS IN PREPRODUCTION YOU FREEGIN SNOB!! !

I'm really steamed right now. I want to do great bodily harm to this guy. Do these people not realize how busy full time college students really are?

Depends on whether the instructor made it clear up front that set design would be a major point. I remember how disapointed my senior class of Mass Media was when the instructor explained why the best looking girl in class got the highest grade. (! !)

Many times college- level instructors throw a project at the students without explaining what they'll be grading on. THAT is grossly unfair. On the other hand, if they tell you, and you don't do it that way, you take the grade and move on.

I had something similar happen to me. I just finished an 8-week course, once a week, evening class in Psychology of Learning. Our professor assigned each of us articles to read, summarize, then present to the class via Power Point presentation. Mine and my partner's was due the second class period (so six days to do it); the article was also graduate school level (this was an intro class for Learning) and even my mother who has a Masters in Clinical Psych with a whole background in learning theory was having difficulty understanding this article. Even the friggin' professor said it was a hard article.

So, lo and behold, we get the damn thing done, present it, and she takes off for us not having gotten the larger "gist" of the article. Little did we know she was willing to tell us what it all meant which all presenters after us were able to have personal pow-wow sessions with the professor and she'd tell 'em what the article was about and how to lay out the power point.

And then she grades us all on the same plain. Doesn't take into account this was one b***h of an article, doesn't take into account we only had six days to put it together while everyone else had personal professor help and two weeks or more to design it. And she even has the balls to grade us on our presentation ability and eye contact!

And I get her again for two classes next semester.

"I remember how disapointed my senior class of Mass Media was when the instructor explained why the best looking girl in class got the highest grade. (! !)"

I can completely understand your anger in that situation. I'm sure his "explanation" was full of hot air and flat out BS. The same thing happened in my capstone course for psychology. The professor spent all semester being a smart-ass, cracking jokes, and sexually harassing students, and in the meantime, flirting his little good-looking helper girl's way to acing the class. They had several little personal pow-wow sessions, 1-2 hours after class ended, and she'd come back the next day reiterating his very jargon and excuse-making for inappropriate behavior toward others, and bully people the exact same way (e.g. self-fulfilling prophecies). This professor even had the nerve to send her flaunting pretentious bad grades to us, so that it looked like she was struggling along with the class and not getting any preferential treatment. Later on, he'd change the grade or give her some kind of compensatory opportunity no one else was eligible for.

If you've ever seen that movie, Mean Girls, this girl was exactly like that evil, conniving Queen-Bee Regina character that shamelessly strutted around and threw herself at any and every guy she could for attention. The saddest part about it, is that she's got a wonderful man who built her a pseudo-mansion outside of town, and she can't even muster the decency to realize how lucky she is and be grateful. She would sit and complain incessantly about all the "horrible" things this guy was and did, and we all wanted to gag. This is one of those people who's got it made, if not by her looks alone, and she still sees the need to treat other people like $hIt. Spoiled little brat. You really do hope in real life to get to see that part in the movie play out, where Regina falls in front of a bus, and finally has some karma to deal with.