Least favorite Professor
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Quirmbach was terrible. He took attendance in a 150 person lecture hall. Ridiculous.
If I knew what that was I could tell you
Transportation/Logistics. Probably the most worthless class I took.
This would have been back in the early 70's. Don't remember his first name...but my Finance professor was a Dr. Hoover. Spoke in an absolute monotone.....much like Ben Stein's character in Ferris Bueller.....and that was teaching finance, which is not exactly exciting anyway. Plus, we had to do our assignments in ink. And, at times he would ask us to turn in all of our worksheets....showing how we solved the problems. It was the most frustrating class experience of my life.
I completely forgot about him, OMG was he terrible! I think he gave our evals out about 6 weeks before class ended and coincidently he ripped out out about 2 classes after we filled those out and the big speech started like "apparently some of you don't think I'm doing a good job teaching." Like anyone was going to take that bait and actually come out and tell him what we really thought unless you wanted to see your grade plummet.
I never could get his way of grading either. Writing papers was my thing, I tested out of an English class and cruised by the other plus any time you had to write a case study or paper I had plenty of practice that I much preferred doing papers over taking exams. Well I would write my papers in the same manner, he'd give you an A or B on 1 then a D on another and you followed his direction the same way on both but he could never give you reasons why 1 paper was A quality and the other D. Everyone in the class had this same problem too and to top that off he even forced us to watch some Michael Moore films which I think he has a secret crush on that d-bag the way he talked about him.
I'd have to go with Chandra, Professor bolt stretcher himself. Everybody got a B+ but when half the class knew more than the guy teaching you've got problems.
Also I can't believe nobody has said Ann Jones yet for Anthro 201 the newspaper nazi herself.
Also I can't believe nobody has said Ann Jones yet for Anthro 201 the newspaper nazi herself.
I got a B in that class and did nothing. Not a great teacher, but not my least favorite.
Yeah, I posted about him in the other thread also. I don't remember the procedures for sure but I thought they weren't supposed to do the evaluations until the last class period of the semester. He did the same thing in our class. Gave us the evaluations to fill out either the second or third to last class of the semester, and then spent nearly the entire last class period before the final ranting at us about some of the comments on the evaluations.
Its amazing that some profs like him are still able to keep their jobs.
Patricia Hamm. I had her for two Poli Sci classes, one was Foreign Policy, the other Latin-American Politics. She was disorganized, uninformed on what she was teaching and basically graded you on whether or not you rebutted her inconsistent points, and made her look stupid. I somehow managed to keep my mouth shut in her classes, and I think it helped my grade... Not a single person skipped her eval day, lol.
Ding Ding Ding! Him and his wife SUCKED!!!!!!! They are no longer at ISU.
I hope my name doesn't end up on this board.... :wideeyed:
+1 on Squirmin' Herman Quirmbach.
I'll add two more:
(1) Milton McGriff (of "September 29th Movement" fame). Nothing like having to read compositions about the Black Panthers, the IRA, etc., all the time.
(2) A lady who commuted from LeMars. If it snowed anywhere between LeMars and Ames, you could almost always count on class being cancelled. What a waste of money.
I'll add two more:
(1) Milton McGriff (of "September 29th Movement" fame). Nothing like having to read compositions about the Black Panthers, the IRA, etc., all the time.
(2) A lady who commuted from LeMars. If it snowed anywhere between LeMars and Ames, you could almost always count on class being cancelled. What a waste of money.
I had a professor for History whose lectures made the period seem dead and gone, drier than dust, but since I'm not going to remember his name, I won't nominate him.
On the other hand, I had a friend in EE who complained of one prof (during the late eighties) who would actually stand at the podium and slowly read from the text through his "lecture" period. Apparently he was very good at research, was fully tenured, and didn't care. Don't have a clue what his name was.
On the other hand, I had a friend in EE who complained of one prof (during the late eighties) who would actually stand at the podium and slowly read from the text through his "lecture" period. Apparently he was very good at research, was fully tenured, and didn't care. Don't have a clue what his name was.
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Mr. & Mrs. T. They were a little evil and the easily the first thought that popped into my head when I read the thread title. Any idea where they are now?
I can't remember the guy's name, or even the specific class (it was Engineering Mechanics 3##) it wasn't Sturges or Rogge, but it was an old guy. Anyways, this guy would just make the most arrogant "you're stupid" comments to students who asked questions in class. Fortunately he looked exactly like one of the canned background characters walking the streets in GTA III so after class I could just go home and run him over with a car or dispose of him in some other violent way, over and over again. :smile: