TheEndOfAllThingsGreenII
12-15-2007, 06:14 AM
Well, I kinda limited the participation for this one but here goes... If your in college, whats the most awful professor you have had? Whats the worst final (content wise, format wise) that you have been given? Has your professor ever tried to deliberately screw over your class?
Well final week for me is done, and I tink I did well on all my finals and decently on my math final. That man is a grade A asshole.
I am in a Calc class that teaches at a slower rate, cause I never had it in High School, so I figured I better not do 111 yet, and opted for 108 and 107 (essentially the same thing as 111 except broken up over two semesters), good move for me cause the majority of the 111 class dropped into 107&108 due to a difficult (not bad) professor.
ANYWAYS,on the math final I had to do a derivitive problem, using all the laws of derivitves, (trig and regular) and the special rules involved with them. I expected this, but with each of the two questions in that section only being worth 5pts each and involving trig, chain, power and all those fun rules all over a quotent rule is NOT WORTH THE 5 god damn points. I did them anyways, and I found on the second question he chose to use the variable Z instead of X. Now, I'm not sure if he did this on purpose, or if he just really wanted to be an asshole, but the reason almost EVERY math professor/teacher stays away from that particlar variable (and all variables like that for that matter) because it looks too much like a NUMBER, not a variable. This is a timed test. There are about 30 Qs on the test, how much you wanna bet some people got a little careless and didn't make their Z look like a Z? Thats a real bull**** way to take points off a test especially if you got the damn problem right. That particular question involved the qutent rule, power+chain rule, product rule, and the diritvitive of a tangent rule. what an ass.
Anywho, post your college horror stories.
Well final week for me is done, and I tink I did well on all my finals and decently on my math final. That man is a grade A asshole.
I am in a Calc class that teaches at a slower rate, cause I never had it in High School, so I figured I better not do 111 yet, and opted for 108 and 107 (essentially the same thing as 111 except broken up over two semesters), good move for me cause the majority of the 111 class dropped into 107&108 due to a difficult (not bad) professor.
ANYWAYS,on the math final I had to do a derivitive problem, using all the laws of derivitves, (trig and regular) and the special rules involved with them. I expected this, but with each of the two questions in that section only being worth 5pts each and involving trig, chain, power and all those fun rules all over a quotent rule is NOT WORTH THE 5 god damn points. I did them anyways, and I found on the second question he chose to use the variable Z instead of X. Now, I'm not sure if he did this on purpose, or if he just really wanted to be an asshole, but the reason almost EVERY math professor/teacher stays away from that particlar variable (and all variables like that for that matter) because it looks too much like a NUMBER, not a variable. This is a timed test. There are about 30 Qs on the test, how much you wanna bet some people got a little careless and didn't make their Z look like a Z? Thats a real bull**** way to take points off a test especially if you got the damn problem right. That particular question involved the qutent rule, power+chain rule, product rule, and the diritvitive of a tangent rule. what an ass.
Anywho, post your college horror stories.