h0tcumm0dity's blog post - and now for something completely different.

I'm making a pizza while I write this

this might be boring for some of you, it's a completely non-sexual post. but if you can make a sex joke out of something I've written on here, I'll give you a prize. or share my pizza or something. idk, we'll negotiate that part later

I spend much of my online time browsing two websites.

the first is Texts From Last Night. it makes me giggle. good shit on there. it would make my day to submit a text that makes the cut and is posted there. I have a top 5 all-time favorites list that I've composed for my own amusement. I might need to expand the list to a top 10 at some point.

the second is Rate My Professor. now, I check this site for my own benefit, to see if the professors whose classes I enroll in for upcoming semesters are freaking batshit crazy. very often the things I read on this site make me giggle too.

here are the more colorful remarks of my professors for next semester:

"Imagine if Bobby Hill were your math teacher."

"Reminds me of Adolf Hitler."

"She really knows what she's talking about. The problem is, she's the ONLY one."

"He gives you extra credit if you draw on your exams." (This is for a History class.)

"He mentions the words 'kinky' at least twice per lecture."

"Kind of boring, but she brought food."

"Does not need to be a teacher. Does not understand ethnicity and diversity. Needs additional training in human services or students' needs."

I should have an interesting time this fall, to say the least

one of my professors this spring was rather unusual. I asked a few other people's opinions to make sure I wasn't overreacting about some of the things she's done.

she's instructed the class not to email her about grades and to instead see her during her office hours. some other students in my class said when they went to her office hours she told them they were 'wasting her time'.

I asked my mom what she thought about it and I think her response summed it up accurately: "When you're a teacher and you're annoyed when students inquire about their grades is like being a mother and being annoyed when your baby cries."

I personally didn't have any trouble with this professor. my grades were fine so I didn't have any reason to need to meet with her. she didn't seem to appreciate students emailing her whatsoever, so I read between the lines and didn't email her. (the one time I did was when she emailed our class saying she was sick and that class was cancelled that day. I emailed her back saying get well soon and she emailed me back to say 'thanks so much for the kind words'.) another reason I don't want to make waves is because I may see her again while I work on my undergrad classes. I know for a fact that I'll see her again in the Masters program and I'm going to choose my battles. if I piss her off, it's going to be for a good reason.

she takes her time when it comes to grading things. I like to know my grade asap personally but I wasn't going to stress her about it since it was the end of the semester and everybody was scrambling to turn things in on time. and I knew my grade was going to be decent, it wasn't a case where it was like 'omg am I gonna pass this class?? *nailbiting'

anyway, people emailed her about our final exam grades. the due date for our grades being posted isn't until tomorrow so I figured a few days after that if I didn't see my grade, maybe I'd do something about it. the students in my class were already extremely agitated with her because she didn't post the study guides for our final exam until Tuesday of last week, when the final was the next day. more than a few people told me she was rude to them when she responded to them and she said that it would take longer for the study guides to be posted online if people kept emailing her.

so I received a mass email from her that stated that she was closing access to the course until the final grades were in becaue she had received so many emails after instructing us to be patient and that some of the emails weren't appropriate.

My thoughts on this:

these 'inappropriate' emails were students in my class who emailed her asking about our grade. she responded rudely. and then they responded rudely.
before the final exam the students in my class were really going in on her. it was hysterical. they'd been annoyed with her all semester but after the study guide catastrophe, they'd had it.

some of the comments they were making:

"she doesn't have any children, that's why she's such a bitch."
(personally, I don't think the cause necessarily determines the effect. I know plenty of sweet, charming, pleasant childless people.)

"when I see her on her motorcycle, I'm going to run her off the road."

"you assign so much work that has to be completed online and then you won't let me use my laptop? get real bitch."
(hah. I see the commenter's point. also, to really appreciate that comment, you must say it out loud ostentatiously.)

back on topic, after I read that email from my prof, I thought she was whining like a child who didn't get her way. that's how it sounded to me and that's how it came off to me. "too many emails with people giving me attitude like I've been giving them all semester long so I'm shutting down online access."

*sigh* at least I'm done with that class now. and I got an A.

my GPA dropped a bit soo that's a bummer. I'm trying not to take it too hard. so far I'm at a 3.7 from a 3.9. it's not easy to maintain a 3.9 sooo . . . I'm gonna keep reminding myself that. *pout*

pizza's done

*h0tcumm0dity