What do you hate the most about UMass?

Professors that don't wanna teach. Umass is full of professors that only want funding for their research and as a trade-off, they have to teach a course. This effects my ability to perform well in class and instead of the professors being held accountable, it all boils down to "well you just didn't try hard enough".

Example. Chris McDaniel. I'm forced to take Chem 269 and just by my luck, I got the worst TA imaginable. He takes off points left and right even though I spend DAYS on my lab reports. I reach out to him for feedback and I get condescending attitude back. I fix my mistakes for the next lab and he finds 10 more things to take points off for. I follow the rubric to a TA, yet Chris has a disclaimer on the rubric stating "This rubric doesn't include everything, TA's can take off points at their discretion". My friends are flying by with straight As and minimal effort, meanwhile I'm working my ass off to MAYBE get an 80. I brought this up to Chris and he denied that the TA's can take off points for whatever. He just doesn't want to teach and as a result, we suffer

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