Ahhhhhh so true

As a political science major who graduated my state's flagship public university I seldom had more than 600 pages of reading assigned for any given class. Often times the reading wasn't actually required and the prof. either didn't test on it or covered the reading nearly word for word, making the reading redundant, if you were doing reading to prepare for the exams.

This teacher hardly taught to contextualize the readings, he refused to answer more 3ish questions because they took too long and after each class he would rush out. Usually students are out the door before the teacher.. This asshole would close his laptop and put it away while lecturing during the last 3 minutes of class and when the minute hand struck 3:30 he was walking.

When the prof. was out sick the TA taught. Hands were shooting up like 4th of July fireworks, there were a plethora of questions and through the questions we all, I think the TA included learned more and became more interested. She was a good educator.

His office hours were by appointment only and right after class. I walked with him to his office so I could get to know him and build repertoire but he expressed to me that he didn't really want to have office hours which is why he made them right after class- so students could ask their questions while he walked to his office and were less likely to actually attend any office hours. This was hardly sufficient concerning topics like transnational policy networks and how regulatory policy affects networks of elites and interest groups.

I like reading and learning but still sometimes procrastinate or make excuses so I input the readings into a program that measured readability. Using the Flesch–Kincaid tests... 3 of that week's readings came back nearly unintelligible, even when I compensated for words that're native only to Political Science. By testing select passages rather as well as large swaths of text.

But maybe it's wrong.. I thought.. So I spent hours using half a dozen other programs to measure readability and they all came back saying the papers were so poorly written they're nearly incomprehensible.

So I tried using CTRL F to find certain sections that might have buzzwords he used in class. Whelp someone had converted these papers into PDFs.. So, I copy and pasted the titles into JSTOR and whaddaya know?! The default format wasn't PDF and was searchable with CTRL F.

THAT MOTHERFUCKER had converted dozens of documents into PDFs just to spite students.. I don't get mad easily, even when my heroin addicted sister yelled "I'm going to fucking kill you" because I wouldn't give her money, I didn't become red faced and irate.

But realizing 3 of my friends in that class who I'd known for 2 or more semester were getting clinically depressed and changing before my eyes and that the prof. was actively trying to make the class harder made my face go red, gave me a headache and made vein bulge in head. I was ready to throw things through glass.

Moreover after midterms the TA who I'd become friends with and hung out with during office hours told me and then our discussion section that the prof. didn't even look at the exams much less take responsibility for the fact that he had miswritten 1/4 of the questions which made grading hard for the TA especially since the rubric didn't match the exams.

In totality the teacher was disengaged and aloof. Although often some students are also disengaged it causes serious moral and interest problems if the prof. is as well. Yet I had a quite a few profs who were disengaged. For what I was paying I considered that unacceptable.

I know it might sound like I'm griping but these things matter to us as a society and many of us on a personal level. Prior this class and one other I had planned to go to grad school for years. I had studied for the GRE and looked at grad school requirements and told all my friends and family I wanted to go to grad school...

As I've only experienced one college I'm forced to extrapolate and believe most American colleges are like this to a greater or lessor degree.

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