Universal Chat Thread

[lp0 on fire]

Hopefully, you'll have decent teachers who understand what you are saying, unlike my C# programming teacher who I just could not communicate to. FFS, so pissed that I got a C in that course; it's bullshit!

well you could have gotten your self a B if you just put a ++ after the C

That was my C++ class the prof was from Iran (Pre revolution from what I can tell, before or shorty after he went to the US for his post grads)
He would go on and on about how we suck because Iran had/s free university education but they also make you work for it (as in you had to pass every class) and that we suck compared to University of Michigan.

He had a class favorite too she was transferring to University of Michigan after that semester

Then holy hell my Python class the lecturer I don't even think had a CS/IT background she seemed so clueless around computers AND despite never using Python before the kids in the class were coming to ME for help instead of the lecturer.

I guess it some what makes sense though, In Academia programming and CS were originally a part of the math department and math professors are just shit at helping students it seems. They almost always assume that Math is universal and that everyone gets it.

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If I get a teacher who is clearly not doing their job properly I'm not hesitating to go to the people who pay their salary if I have to go that far. I speak English, there's zero reason there should be a huge misunderstanding between myself and a teacher in regards to communication.

Yeah you would think that... but foreign profs (who have thick non English accents) are way too common especially in STEM classes.

Hell my ex when she was at a different university then me had an ENGLISH PROF (and it was a class for English majors..) WHO COULD NOT SPEAK ENGLISH.

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I'm sorry both of you had to put up with such BS.

Lousy teachers are a dime-a-dozen, unfortunately (and I have had my fair share).

It doesn't help Education is going to "Oh you don't need a qualified person to teach this class, just any random jack ass can read out of the book and premade power point slides, oh and relay on our bullshit online "labs"".

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I wish a teacher not wanting to help was the worst I experienced. I could probably write a short book on the things I had to endure and what it did to me. It was seven years ago and the experience still affects me.

By the way I'm not going to be bothered if anyone wants to know details, so don't worry about whether to pry or not.

I will start, I have learning disabilities, so at the start of every semester I'd give a letter to my professors about accommodations that were needed / I could get, so it is not like the professors did not know I had issues. This one time a professor when handing out a test, after I took a second too long to pass on the pile to the person next to me said "It is okay he is a bit SLOW"

I would have went to the disability office but the university had so much bullshit of "Oh its not our fault.." at shit that was their fault (e.g. taking phones out of the dorm rooms when crime was going up, lack of parking dispite having a sucessful new student recruitment campain for over a decade and being in the middle of bumfuck no where, not having books in stock that were class requirements in the school book store... Kicking a girl out of her housing mid semester because of superficial skin cuts on her legs from shaving and cutting a bulging vein where she passed out then her housemates posted the pictures of her passed out on facebook, this was right after the universty started a "you no longer can choose your roommate" policy) that I knew if anything I'd be given hell.