Anyone have any stories?
As I was moving out of my apartment last week, I found a college project where the professor destroyed me. Multiple comments such as "This is awful," "Clearly unprepared," "How unorganized can you be." It's been 5 years and it reminded me of how nightmarish this professor was. I'm not going to name him, but every time "ISU Foundation" pops up on my phone, he's the first thing that enters my mind and I hit ignore. So let me walk you through why this guy was a complete ass.
In late September of 2013, I had two kidney stones and was on oxycodone but still went to class, but did not talk in class because I didn't want to do anything inappropriate in a drug-induced state. After class, he called me out and reemed me for not participating during that class.
After this, every time I participated in discussion, he disapproved of whatever I said and I noticed my grade started dipping.
Then this project happened, in which I got destroyed.
After this project, I had gone out to lunch with 4 people in the same class. All of them felt my project was fine and were shocked he responded the way he did. Three of these students were close with the professor. The fourth told me the professor, who he felt hated him before, now liked him because he went in during office hours just to shoot the **** with the professor. Now, the part that blows my mind...
All four of them told me he had a "list" of students he wants to "weed out" of his class and he had shown two of them. Yours truly was on the list. His reasoning was because the profession doesn't have enough job openings to suit every one in his class so he wanted to ensure the ones he felt were most qualified would have a job.
So I went in during office hours to talk to him. He told me he felt I didn't care about the class ever since the day I came in with the kidney stones. He mentioned another classmate made it to class and behaved just fine after getting in a car accident that same day. Little did he know this was a good friend of mine, who was in a minor fender bender and used this as an excuse to relax during class.
He then offered to bump my grade up a letter grade if I could answer three history-related questions which I had no idea the answer. He let me hear how unprofessional it was I didn't know these answers for a history major. I left, tail between my legs because I couldn't answer the question, only to ask those four students I had lunch with also didn't know the answers to these questions and were in disbelief he would even ask those questions.
After the meeting with him, I began half-assing all my work because I felt there was no use in trying to get through to this guy. Weirdly enough, my grade started going up. Since then, I've gotten to know a few younger people that have had him. It's amazing, because people either love him or loath him.
Anyone in history probably knows who I'm talking about, I just ask we don't post names in here because I don't want to drag this guys name in the mud.
As I was moving out of my apartment last week, I found a college project where the professor destroyed me. Multiple comments such as "This is awful," "Clearly unprepared," "How unorganized can you be." It's been 5 years and it reminded me of how nightmarish this professor was. I'm not going to name him, but every time "ISU Foundation" pops up on my phone, he's the first thing that enters my mind and I hit ignore. So let me walk you through why this guy was a complete ass.
In late September of 2013, I had two kidney stones and was on oxycodone but still went to class, but did not talk in class because I didn't want to do anything inappropriate in a drug-induced state. After class, he called me out and reemed me for not participating during that class.
After this, every time I participated in discussion, he disapproved of whatever I said and I noticed my grade started dipping.
Then this project happened, in which I got destroyed.
After this project, I had gone out to lunch with 4 people in the same class. All of them felt my project was fine and were shocked he responded the way he did. Three of these students were close with the professor. The fourth told me the professor, who he felt hated him before, now liked him because he went in during office hours just to shoot the **** with the professor. Now, the part that blows my mind...
All four of them told me he had a "list" of students he wants to "weed out" of his class and he had shown two of them. Yours truly was on the list. His reasoning was because the profession doesn't have enough job openings to suit every one in his class so he wanted to ensure the ones he felt were most qualified would have a job.
So I went in during office hours to talk to him. He told me he felt I didn't care about the class ever since the day I came in with the kidney stones. He mentioned another classmate made it to class and behaved just fine after getting in a car accident that same day. Little did he know this was a good friend of mine, who was in a minor fender bender and used this as an excuse to relax during class.
He then offered to bump my grade up a letter grade if I could answer three history-related questions which I had no idea the answer. He let me hear how unprofessional it was I didn't know these answers for a history major. I left, tail between my legs because I couldn't answer the question, only to ask those four students I had lunch with also didn't know the answers to these questions and were in disbelief he would even ask those questions.
After the meeting with him, I began half-assing all my work because I felt there was no use in trying to get through to this guy. Weirdly enough, my grade started going up. Since then, I've gotten to know a few younger people that have had him. It's amazing, because people either love him or loath him.
Anyone in history probably knows who I'm talking about, I just ask we don't post names in here because I don't want to drag this guys name in the mud.
Still mad 
about this, mostly because I didn't tell him to **** himself.
