Ever had a professor that expects SO much of you/your time?

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Kirkpatchick		#21	[-]
Posts: 2898 (11/07/2009 12:16 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	One time, in one of my art classes, we had projects to work on over the weekend (make a sculpture out of a block of plaster). That monday, he was not satisfied with our progress. He had each of us write down what we did, minute by minute, from the time we left class on thursday, to right then. He read them all and left little notes throughout our papers saying "instead of this, you should be working on your project". A note my friend had said "spending 'time' with your husband can wait when you have an art project to do" He was nuts. That one class took up more of my time than all three of my other classes combined.
xomadi89		#22	[-]
Posts: 2903 (11/07/2009 12:17 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Kirkpatchick wrote: One time, in one of my art classes, we had projects to work on over the weekend (make a sculpture out of a block of plaster). That monday, he was not satisfied with our progress. He had each of us write down what we did, minute by minute, from the time we left class on thursday, to right then. He read them all and left little notes throughout our papers saying "instead of this, you should be working on your project". A note my friend had said "spending 'time' with your husband can wait when you have an art project to do" He was nuts. That one class took up more of my time than all three of my other classes combined.
tp 09 in the house		#23	[-]
Posts: 1702 (11/07/2009 12:19 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	xomadi89 wrote: One of my professors expects us to read seven 20 page articles each week before class. We also have an assignment due every week for the rest of the semester. Like really, does he think we don't have four other classes to keep up with!?! Skim them. I did about half the reading for my classes and did just fine. Do you discuss anything in class? For some of my classes i'd just jot down what people discussed and specific passages they mentioned, read that, and called it good.
Nneecolee		#24	[-]
Posts: 10463 (11/07/2009 12:24 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Yes, my professor also told the class not to expect "straight As" this semester and to get used to it.
tp 09 in the house		#25	[-]
Posts: 1704 (11/07/2009 12:25 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Kirkpatchick wrote: One time, in one of my art classes, we had projects to work on over the weekend (make a sculpture out of a block of plaster). That monday, he was not satisfied with our progress. He had each of us write down what we did, minute by minute, from the time we left class on thursday, to right then. He read them all and left little notes throughout our papers saying "instead of this, you should be working on your project". A note my friend had said "spending 'time' with your husband can wait when you have an art project to do" He was nuts. That one class took up more of my time than all three of my other classes combined. I swear if I received a paper like that I'd bust up laughing.
MeParley		#26	[-]
Posts: 15745 (11/07/2009 12:31 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	xomadi89 wrote: Hollywood Whore 2005 wrote: 20 pages each week??!?!?! omg SEVEN 20 page articles. That's not much at all. When I was in college I took quite a few literature courses. For each one we had to read at least one novel every week and write a paper on each one. And each novel was way over 140 pages.
P5 Teacher RN		#27	[-]
Posts: 17299 (02/09/1996 3:57 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I hate most of my instructors. Well, I hate their methods, anyway. They expect use to meet deadlines (tons of them, all the time), but they're the most unorganized, unprofessional people I've encountered in higher education. They keep us over all the time (not 5 or 10 minutes, hours) without warning, are incredibly slow about grading our assignments (how hard is it to grade SCANTRON exams, people?), and they volunteer us to participate in community service projects on WEEKENDS without consulting us first. I have to participate in a community health fair next Saturday. They treat us like a bunch of indentured servants or something. It's ridiculous.
pinkberry		#28	[-]
Posts: 6155 (02/09/2000 3:57 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	YES. I had 2 classes in the same semester that almost killed me. My anxiety was off the charts for that entire semester. I was taking 5 classes Mon-Sat and working. For one of them we had to read an entire book (300+ pages) and write a 6-8 page paper on it due every other week. It doesn't sound that bad, but he was an extremely tough grader and it was about sociological theory so you couldn't even try to bs your way through it. These papers were worse than the papers I had to write for my philosophy classes. We also had a quiz every class on the textbook reading (separate from the books we wrote the papers on), tests (all essays...tons of writing), a couple projects and presentations. My other class only met once a week (Saturday mornings) and we had a huge project, presentation and paper due every class. We didn't have tests, but we had quizzes at least every other week that you really needed to have done the reading for to pass them. I remember pulling all-nighters every Friday then coming home after class on Saturdays and sleeping all day. That was a sucky semester.
KellySD		#29	[-]
Posts: 1065 (11/07/2009 12:38 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Yes. Several of them, in fact. You do what you have to do.
P5 Teacher RN		#30	[-]
Posts: 17302 (11/07/2009 12:42 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I'm taking a Saturday class next semester. I'm not looking forward to that at all.
AlfTheGreat		#31	[-]
Posts: 32190 (11/07/2009 1:02 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	All of my art professors expected you to put in the same number of hours working in the studio as you did being in class. Art classes lasted 2.5 hours, twice a week. So for every art class, we had to put in an additional 5 hours of studio time every week. I took 6 classes and interned my last semester...I wanted to shoot myself.
IdDoJC100Ways		#32	[-]
Posts: 27905 (11/07/2009 1:14 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I took a course in undergrad called Soviet Foreign Policy. The professor was one of the smartest and most insightful and interesting professors in the Political Science Dept, however he had us reading 400 pages a week.....400. It's not like a 400 page novel I could whip through either....it was 400 pages of intricate policy decisions of the Soviet Union. I eventually dropped the course with a medical excuse as I was "stressed" and 7 months pregnant.
KellySD		#33	[-]
Posts: 1075 (11/07/2009 1:16 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	If you don't want to be stressed and have worked piled on you, don't become a business major. It's wretched.
AlfTheGreat		#34	[-]
Posts: 32194 (11/07/2009 1:19 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	IdDoJC100Ways wrote: I took a course in undergrad called Soviet Foreign Policy Hell 101.
AngelsTearDrop		#35	[-]
Posts: 22673 (11/07/2009 11:17 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	AlfTheGreat wrote: All of my art professors expected you to put in the same number of hours working in the studio as you did being in class. Art classes lasted 2.5 hours, twice a week. So for every art class, we had to put in an additional 5 hours of studio time every week. I took 6 classes and interned my last semester...I wanted to shoot myself. Bingo! Our studio classes are 2 hours and 45 minutes and you're expected to work twice that amount outside of each class but it's still only worth the same amount of credits as 50 minute 3 day per week classes. Rawr.
Mistress Darcy		#36	[-]
Posts: 12380 (11/07/2009 11:22 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Most of my professors acted that way especially as I reached the higher levels of education. I have become an expert at skimming/reading just enough. Most professors will even admit that THEY didn't read every word of every thing that was assigned to them in their own schooling.
BlackStilettos		#37	[-]
Posts: 28019 (11/07/2009 11:22 AM) JJB Fashionista '09 Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Yes. I had a professor when I was taking Immunology who expected us to get through one of the textbooks for the class (1000+ pages) within the first month of the semester. And he planned on covering every chapter. It was insane, and most of the class earned a D or an F. Almost all of the grades were curved to Bs and Cs.
PosterGirl2006		#38	[-]
Posts: 9337 (11/07/2009 2:45 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	P5 Teacher RN wrote: I hate most of my instructors. Well, I hate their methods, anyway. They expect use to meet deadlines (tons of them, all the time), but they're the most unorganized, unprofessional people I've encountered in higher education. They keep us over all the time (not 5 or 10 minutes, hours) without warning, are incredibly slow about grading our assignments (how hard is it to grade SCANTRON exams, people?), and they volunteer us to participate in community service projects on WEEKENDS without consulting us first. Ikr. I hate it when they don't give you a notice that class is canceled. I know shit happens sometimes, but there are professors who have a habit of doing this. If one of my classes is canceled, and I drag my sleep-deprived butt out of bed just for the other class I have that morning since the prof is tough on absences, only to find out it was canceled too, I'm not going to be a happy camper if I carpooled and now have to wait hours to go home.
FreakyDreamer		#39	[-]
Posts: 4630 (11/07/2009 2:58 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	It's not unusual for me to spend 10-15 hours on my homework assignments for each class. They are usually weekly. My professors are pretty considerate; they listen to our demands and push back assignments if the whole class needs more time. I guess I have it good, but I do spend a lot of time on homework/studying. I'm pretty lucky in the sense that I don't have to read textbooks or novels (waste of time). Most of my classes are engineering problem based and the homeworks are problem sets or programming projects. I'm taking a higher level math class next semester at my new school, so I'm not sure how well that will go. I met with the professor earlier this week because I hadn't met the prereqs but she let me anyways. I hope it's not too hard or different from how the engineering department teaches its courses. I can't wait to get out of this school, honestly.
Samantha James		#40	[-]
Posts: 17970 (11/07/2009 2:58 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	My Shakespeare teacher made the class read 1 play every week. Now, Shakespeare's plays aren't exceptionally long but they aren't short and you have to keep re-reading over so many parts to make sure you're reading it right and there are 158 characters in each play, so you have to slow down and double check that you understand who's doing what and what's happening. It's not easy stuff to read and I think 1 play in 7 days in too much when I have 4 other classes to take, one of which was another Lit. class that required a lot of reading. I feel this way about almost all of my Lit. classes though. No, I cannot read an entire book of short stories by Tuesday and half of a novel by Thursday. I, believe it or not, have other shit to do.

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