Seeing the teachers clothes I thought they will fail all the Kobayashi Maru test.
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Are you good at testing though?
Prof said this in an econ class that like, 25% of students drop after the first exam. Had me sweating balls and was extremely stressed about it.
Turns out my heavily Republican college classmates were just especially stupid when it comes to econ. He was one of the best professors I ever took.
The professors whose classes everyone passes are the ones you learn nothing in.
Or they're bad at teaching, I've had both experiences.
If it's a low level class, a 100 or 200, it's probably student ineptitude. If it's a high level course, I would expect a lot more people to pass. I work in a law school and if we see a lot of students failing one professor, it's generally a sign that professor has a chip on their shoulder.
I hope he just continues like that everyday for the rest of his career, even once he gains confidence to know what he's doing.
Like every class his students have to talk him off a ledge, and then when he nears retirement after 50 years he's just known as "that crazy professor" every campus seems to have.
Sadly, the Simone Veil (the comic author) kind of handled her so-successful-it-failed Kick-starter this way. Pictures for Sad Children
It's a somber lesson that mental health is no laughing matter, but also that anyone who needs a laugh about it could do much worse than enjoying Pictures for Sad Children.
YOU WILL BE GRADED ON A CURVE TO CREATE AN EXCUSE FOR MY FAILURES.
Then you all get to hate that one person who already read a 15 year old textbook they found in the trash instead of me, who can't teach as well as literal garbage!
I rolled the worst possible teacher for most of my classes in IT school. I think 3/4 of the class failed the networking 1 course.
(everyone in networking skip this comment)
Networking is, with the possible exception of cybersecurity, the most narcissistic, self-important, smug bunch of mystic assholes to exist in the IT world. None of the rest of us can stand them, but we play along because we don't have a choice. So you got a perfect education into working with them.
Most teachers I had growing up could have been completely absent and I would have gotten the same education, as all they did was recite from the same book/curriculum we had on paper and could read. I only really remember 2 that actually taught. My high school algebra teacher, and my 6th grade drama/choir teacher.
My high school algebra teacher was so bad that she'd start teaching you one thing, get to the end of a problem, and realize she taught it wrong and start over a different way. I got a D in that class. Got an A in algebra 2 with zero increase in effort on my part.
I had an organic chemistry class in college where the average grade was a C. I was a chemistry major and I passed with a D. A couple of other would-be chemistry majors dropped the class. The professor actually told us that we were the worst group of students he had ever taught (and it was his last class before retirement).
I don't think he was a bad teacher, because I certainly was a bad student.
Also he talked about the need to cut down on burning fossil fuels, but less due to environmental concerns and more due to the lost opportunity to make plastics and other interesting substances out of them.
Yes, often the course is just hard or the students are lazy, but not always. I've had several teachers who were strangely proud of the low succes rates.
love the completely unhinged take of "we need to reduce fossil fuel use so I can use all the crude oil to make weird stuff"
My organic chemistry prof was equally weird about synthesis. But his ego rested on everyone passing, in contrast to the biology prof who failed half the students in her classes. She was the better teacher. I don't remember much from my second semester of o chem because I didn't really need to learn anything to get an A, but I have retained quite a lot from her classes
Maybe it’s just chemistry professors. I had one try to expel me for plagiarism because my lab partner and I had the same measurements on our lab reports (no overlap other than the numbers, which weren’t open to a lot of interpretation). You know, because we had the same experiment.
Luckily, part of the process was sitting down with the professor and the head of the department, and as soon as the professor explained what the problem was, the dean rolled his eyes, asked why my professor didn’t even report both of us, and told me someone else in the department would grade my exam, then let me leave.
I actually failed my molecular biology course, and I'm still a little salty about that. I understood molecular biology. I didn't memorize stuff like the order in which subunits bind to assemble the pre-replication complex.
After ORC1-6 bind the origin of replication, Cdc6 is recruited. Cdc6 recruits the licensing factor Cdt1 and MCM2-7. Cdt1 binding and ATP hydrolysis by the ORC and Cdc6 load MCM2-7 onto DNA.
Note that they're numbered but the numbers aren't related to the order in which they act. I don't need to know that. No one who doesn't do research specifically on the pre-replication complex needs to know that.
(Excuses, excuses...)
Fuck organic chemistry in particular. That is the only class I've ever taken where it felt like I was arguing my grade before a judge who had already decided I was guilty. Like even if you're right, you're still wrong. You know it and the judge knows it, but what are you going to do about it? It's his courtroom.
Competing for grades is so dumb, really glad to have school far behind me
Is that the explanation for how Trump could be elected not just once, but twice?
I don't think your average voter sits a political science class
Yes, but apparently they expect someone to teach them even the most basic things - they seem to be getting this "education" from Truth Social & Co. now because there is apparently no longer a halfway decent education system in the US.
I can't think of any other explanation for why someone would vote twice for a presidential candidate who is so obviously unsuitable.
I heard that blame can be laid on journalists as well. The Guardian is the only left leaning source I can think of that doesn't have paywalls. While the right leaning sources at worse have loads of slop ads.
Yes, it's sad, especially since the Guardian is a UK news outlet.
Yet the Express and Daily Mail is free
Yes, this pattern is also prevalent in Europe. That is precisely why the US should serve as a cautionary example. We still have a reasonably functioning media landscape, but that can change quickly here too.