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1/8/2011 10:48:49 PM

For me, it's a tossup between A) the physics class where the hag professor chewed me out in front of the entire class because I couldn't find the sheet she sent out for us to write our homework answers onto and I asked her if she'd accept my attempt at a substitution or B) the human physiology course with Anholt where he called me out as I tried to walk out of lecture because I had food poisoning suddenly hit me in the middle of class and I was trying desperately not to shit and barf all over myself in front of ~100 people. He said something along the lines of "what's the matter, is my lecture not interesting enough for you?"

1/8/2011 11:42:12 PM

^ I would have let loose a stream of vomit on his desk and him and said, "You make me sick."

1/8/2011 11:49:50 PM

hahahahahaha

1/8/2011 11:50:52 PM

Philosophy of Science, PHI 341, I think. That class was worse than any 8am class I ever had.

[Edited on January 8, 2011 at 11:54 PM. Reason : great concept but horrible professor/delivery. ]

1/8/2011 11:53:48 PM

^^^then I would have sprayed the front row with the other end.

1/8/2011 11:55:05 PM

All the better my son. You should have dropped your pants and sprayed them with LOOSE PILE RHEE whilst spraying the teacher with vomit.

1/8/2011 11:56:46 PM

^^^I heard a lot of concerns about that class. I took about 16 philosophy courses in undergrad. That was one of few that I ever intentionally avoided.

1/9/2011 12:02:29 AM

MA121 with Peterson



that tenured son of a bitch used to throw fucking full on Calc 242 concepts into his exams without prepping us adequately in his class




it was MA121 for fuck's sake - meant to be just a topical overview of some calculus ideas





no one in the class got higher than a C-... the curve was unbelievable.

1/9/2011 12:04:58 AM

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"Philosophy of Science, PHI 341, I think. "

that class was such a joke. I think I showed up for class like 3 times the whole semester. Fermata was in the class too I think.

1/9/2011 12:17:00 AM

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"Philosophy of Science, PHI 341, I think. That class was worse than any 8am class I ever had. "

Horrible class. I went twice. I changed it to Pass / Fail because the class average that semester on each test was 60 and he swore he didn't curve. I think most passed, but it was the worst class I ever had at State.

100s of 1000s of pages read and open "book" tests with impossibly difficult questions.

1/9/2011 12:24:13 AM

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"That same associate professor also gave a speech at the start of her class about she catches about half of her class on plagiarism every semester and has to turn them in to the administration, and that it was really sad."

Supplanter, we must have had the same professor. I have heard plenty of other people say the same thing for her. She and I had a great relationship though and it was her last semester at State before beginning a position at another university. That probably had something to do with it, or she just really liked me

1/9/2011 10:47:59 AM

JesusHChrist

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"I took a "plants and civilization class." I showed up to the class for the final only to find out that the professor changed the date of the final. I emailed him, and he told me that they played Jeopardy for the final on the last day of class. So, instead of him making me make it up or take an F straight to the face, he gave me a 100. I'm not really sure why I'm posting that in this thread, that was the most awesome surprise I ever got in a class."

i took this same class.
he was ALWAYS canceling class on us.
at the end of the year we tallied up how many days he missed and we didnt have class- it was in the range of 30-40%

1/9/2011 11:15:53 AM

statics, god awful boring and repetitive...
csc 116 also incredibly boring...

1/9/2011 2:39:57 PM

I hate to say it but college was pretty fun and overall I enjoyed being a nerd. I can't think of a class that was absolutely miserable that I also hated.




[Edited on January 9, 2011 at 2:46 PM. Reason : fg]

1/9/2011 2:45:50 PM

SOC 450

The best part about the whole class when he dressed up for Halloween in a witch's hat complete with fake hair that only covered half his head.

Other than that, it was horrible.

1/9/2011 3:10:11 PM

ST 311. I fucking hated that class.

Class average was a 54

1/9/2011 3:38:09 PM

csc401 with dutta

http://dutta.csc.ncsu.edu/csc401_fall03/index.html

note the scale at the bottom which shows a 10 is a D- and a 50 is a B- due to the insane curve the idiot had to give the class

1/9/2011 3:39:59 PM

MA121 - Calculus - with Dr. Ethelbiet (?) Chuckwu.

Man couldn't speak english, and had a mental illness.

[Edited on January 9, 2011 at 3:43 PM. Reason : he also has like 10 kids and a picture with the pope]

1/9/2011 3:42:38 PM

Circa : July 2000

I had just gotten my Jeep back from the shop about a week ago. I had a 3" suspension lift installed, along with 32" tires, rims, etc. This was basically my dream ride and it was finished. All I had to do was drive around with the top down, like I was doing that afternoon.

School had started the day before (Wednesday). I had gone gone to one class, British Literature II, with instructor Matt Morris. I was headed to work on this Thursday, with the top down and the cd player blaring through the speakers I had just installed in the trunk. I drove the 1/4 mile from my house to the highway entrance ramp and proceeded down the ramp. Everyone who drives knows that you have to accelerate up to speed on the entrance ramp to merge with traffic at 65 MPH. You can't merge safely if you're going 25.

I made one critical mistake. I changed the song on the cd player, taking my eyes off of the road for all of 3-4 seconds. When I looked up, the car in front me was stopped at the end of the entrance. The woman had her left turn signal on, and was looking out of her window, waiting for a 25-car gap, so that she could merge onto the highway from a dead standstill.

At this point, it was too late. I had 2 options - 1) Swerve right, crash through a sign, some trees, and severely fuck up my Jeep. 2) Swerve left, merge into the empty highway (I'd guess there was a 12-15 car length gap), and continue on my way.

I chose to swerve left. It was wild, but I made it onto the highway without hitting anyone because nothing was there. Unfortunately, I over-corrected to the right, and the Jeep swung around sideways. I realize this all happened in a matter of seconds, but it felt like I was frantically turning back to the left for 5 minutes, and consciously aware that if traffic caught up to me and didn't stop that I would be T-boned at 65 MPH, and probably flip several times down highway 421.

My terror ended as I hit the grass in the median and there was a sudden lull. I remember thinking, "whew, glad I'm out of the road" as I slid down the grassy bank. I hit the bottom of the median and everything stopped. I thought it was over. About 2 seconds later, I remember the Jeep lifting off the ground and it rolled.

The Jeep came to a rest upside down, with me hanging there by my seatbelt. THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS TO WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT. I WOULD HAVE CERTAINLY BEEN THROWN INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE SEAT BELT.

I was a little freaked out, but all I wanted to do was get the hell out of there. I undid the buckle to the seat belt and came crashing down onto the grass. I crawled out of the window hole, which was vacant since the top was off. The woman who had stopped at the end of the entrance ramp came running over and said, "That was some smooth driving!"

I wanted to call her a cunt, but I just said "thanks."

The state trooper came, and since this was a 1 vehicle accident, and my Jeep was obviously totaled, he decided.. to write me a ticket for failure to stop causing an accident or some retarded shit.

I called in to work and told them that I had been in a wreck and would not be coming in that day. I went to the hospital to get checked out and to get a note for work/school and because I belong to the upper-middle class. First World Problems.

I took the next day off of school/work because I was extremely sore and had no vehicle with which to transport myself. I figured that everything would be ok because this was a very serious wreck, and even though my body wasn't mangled and sprawled across 421, I was still shaken-up and sore.

Back to Forsyth Tech. The British Lit II class met every Mon/Wed/Fri from 10:00-10:50AM. I returned to class on Monday and waited until after class to speak with Matt about my absence on Friday. There was a line of students waiting to talk to him.

The guy in front of me told Matt that he missed all of the previous week because he had gone to the beach and didn't want to come back. Matt told him that was no problem and not to worry about it. I assumed that my situation would certainly be fine and had no qualms or reservations about approaching him with my reason for my absence. This guy and Matt finished up and I stepped forward to relay my story.

I started by apologizing for missing class on Friday and then told him about flipping my Jeep. He immediately responded with, "Ok, but the next time you miss class I'm dropping you." Surely he was joking, right? No one could be that strict with their attendance policy, right?

I told him that this was a very serious wreck and offered to show the documentation that I had from the hospital. He told me that he did not want to see it and that I would be dropped from the class the next time that I missed a day. I really couldn't believe he was saying this to me, but I just walked off. At no point did he ask if I was ok.

The next few weeks were very difficult for me transportation-wise. The Jeep was obviously totaled so I was forced to find a ride to class. This wasn't terribly difficult on Tues/Thurs because my classes were in the afternoon, but that 10:00AM MWF British Lit II class was tricky. I had to rely on my then-girlfriend to give me a ride. In fairness, she was cool about it, and I was making it to class, even though she lived 30 minutes from me, and it was 20 minutes from my house to Forsyth Tech.

Then, in late September, we cut it extremely close. I arrived in front of the building that the class was in 2 minutes before class started. I ran up the stairs as fast as I could, and arrived to class.. 10 seconds late. I'll admit that being tardy is tardy, but it was only 10 seconds, and Matt Morris knew that I was having to bum rides to school.

So, if you haven't already formed an opinion of Matt Morris, let me explain exactly how much of a mother fucker this guy really is. Class immediately stopped when I walked in, and Matt informed me that I had missed the quiz. I asked him what quiz, having no idea what he was talking about, and he told me that he had given it out about 8 minutes ago. A quiz at 9:52AM for a class that starts at 10:00AM? I just said ok, and figured that I would talk to him about it after class.

He spent the next 10 minutes giving a lecture on the importance of arriving to class on time. So being 10 seconds late to class, under extreme conditions, was somehow detrimental to my academic career, but making a class full of students listen to his rant for 10 minutes of their valuable class time wasn't? He had already called me out like I was some freshman high school student. It was blatantly obvious he was talking about me to everyone in the room.

I told him after class that it was unfair to give a quiz before class officially started and he told me that I needed to arrive early. I explained to him that I had no vehicle because I had been in the wreck, and that being 10 seconds late wasn't that big of a deal. He told me that 2 tardies equaled an absence and that he was going to drop me that next time that I was late.

Things were fine for a couple of weeks. I made it to class on time and was glad that there was only about 8 more weeks of class left.

One morning in October, it rained. My ex-girlfriend had to sit in traffic due to a wreck on I-40. We left my house with about 10 minutes to get to Forsyth Tech. She drove wildly, knowing of the consequences of being late (see 2 paragraphs up). I could see Forsyth Tech at the next turn, and as luck would have it.. we hit a red light.. behind another car.. that wasn't turning right. We were stuck and I was fucked.

We pulled up in front of the building at 10:00 on the dot, but I wasn't going to go through being late again. I would have just exploded, called Matt a faggot, told the class that he was a dicksucker, and probably gotten expelled from Forsyth Tech. I just walked into the registrar, filled out a drop form, and let that be that.

About a month later, in between classes, I was standing outside smoking a cigarette. From the door on the side of the building that British Lit II was in emerged Matt Morris. He walked towards me, noticed me, and said, "There he is!" to which I responded, "Go fuck yourself." I'm sure this amused the students who were standing nearby, but what was I supposed to do? Be buddy-buddy with this asshole?

I had never met Matt Morris before taking British Lit II. I have no idea why he hated me. If you read reviews of him on professor ratings sites, it seems like most people liked him, or at least enjoyed his class.

Maybe he'll see this post, register for TWW, and explain why he hated me.

1/9/2011 3:49:19 PM

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"ST 311. I fucking hated that class. Class average was a 54 "

I know that most of this class is made up of biology/psychology and business majors, but I still can't fathom how people do so poorly in this class.


Also, my worst class was ce 420

[Edited on January 9, 2011 at 5:25 PM. Reason : a]

1/9/2011 5:24:57 PM

fortran with rodman was totally worthless. the lab was useful (if you wanted to write fortran code), but the class was totally unrelated and pointless.

E 101 was also a waste of time

1/9/2011 5:45:27 PM

yea, ST311 was easy as hell.

1/9/2011 5:47:13 PM

ctrl+F "Middleton"

...nothing

Really?

1/9/2011 6:05:24 PM

log 201

1/9/2011 6:07:41 PM

MA 341 with the dude who wore latex gloves when he wrote on the chalkboard and had the personal PA system that was constantly screaming with feedback

Dynamics with Chao was pretty awful but everyone knows that

And thermo with Kleindestroyer because he raped my mind

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"MA121 - Calculus - with Dr. Ethelbiet (?) Chuckwu."

I took 341 with him after dropping the dude above. Class was so easy.

And Chukwu is pretty much Rafiki the monkey and the nicest dude ever


[Edited on January 9, 2011 at 6:11 PM. Reason : ]

1/9/2011 6:07:49 PM

miserable: CH221 Organic Chemistry 1 - the professor, Dr. Orji, made it miserable just because of the awful language barrier. I'm pretty sure he got fired after his first or second semester teaching at State.

worthless: FN610 Research Methods - I hated the professor (and she hated me) but I learned absolutely nothing new in that class because I had taken pretty much the exact same thing during undergrad.

1/9/2011 6:22:36 PM

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"ctrl+F "Middleton" ...nothing Really?"

Oh god, I forgot about that horrible class I dropped.


And I hated my last few semesters at state. I hated life. I hated what I was doing there. That's why I'm not doing anything in this feild...

1/9/2011 8:19:31 PM

ENG 101
Philosophy of Science
FORTRAN
PE 101
Beginning Karate
ENG 331
MSE 201
Ethics
ECE 331
Experimental Aerodynamics 1 and 3. Two was actually useful/interesting.

All of them were useless and a waste of my time.

[Edited on January 9, 2011 at 9:02 PM. Reason : fail fail fail ]

1/9/2011 9:01:40 PM

psychology 200 or whatever that big one was that seemed like everyone had to take. had it at 8am. fell asleep one time in class and dreamed that i farted but really farted out loud on those old wooden desk in poe. i woke myself up when i did it and the whole class was laughing including the professor. no one really knew it was me except my roommate that was sitting beside me.


also had dynamics with choa. he had a 34 point curve on one of his tests that semester. he also gave the other section the exam and LET THEM TAKE IT HOME EVEN THOUGH MY SECTION HAD THE FINAL THE NEXT DAY. before the other section took the final he said "do not show this to the other section because it is the same exam." needless to say, nearly everyone in my section aced the final.

1/9/2011 10:05:45 PM

ST101H >>>>>> ST311

no tests, no projects, and counted the same

1/9/2011 10:32:45 PM

Acc 450


Phil of law if you count a class where you're asked to leave and drop the class on the 2nd day

1/9/2011 10:39:41 PM

i loved ethics. and all philosophy courses

of course that was one of my minors and i wish i had just changed my major to it

i also liked ST311 and i don't even like math. but i got an A+ in it!!!! i am seriously retarded at math, this is the only math that i ever liked/made sense to me.

i must be a huge dork because i think almost every class i took i liked. except for ONE english class when i was at college of charleston. the lady was a HUGE bitch. i'm a pretty decent writer (not like, fantastic but if i had to pick an academic area in which i have consistently excelled all my life, it'd be writing) and she was the chair of the writing lab and always talked it up. she gave me C's on ALL my papers (which is like, seriously ridiculous since my english professor after her told me i should be a fucking english major and because i can count the number of Cs i made in college AND grad school on almost one hand...hehe) UNTIL i took one of my papers to the writing lab (you sign in, or whatever, so she could tell which of her students used it). the peer editor/tutor/whatever looked at my paper, said it was great, needed no changes, and sent me on my way. of course i got an A on that one

same professor also made me give a speech/oral presentation when i was deathly (as in almost hospitalized) ill and had notes from like 17 doctors. i had 0 voice. but she made me present anyway and took off points because i wasn't audible enough. there was no winning with her unless you were already a below average student. she seemed to hate above average students that didn't need her precious writing lab/office hours/etc.

i forgot about her until this thread. now i'm all aggro.

but i liked all of my other classes i think. even the ones that all the engineers hate on...like ethics, anthropology, african american history, etc, etc. i thought kuzenski (sp?) was kinda whack...had him for 2 poli sci classes. but i still didn't loathe the courses.

clearly i was a humanities major, but started out in bio for 2 years...so i enjoyed my sciences too. i did not particularly enjoy math, which is why i ultimately changed tracks. so i could probably add calculus to the list of classes i did not enjoy



[Edited on January 9, 2011 at 10:49 PM. Reason : .]

1/9/2011 10:46:14 PM

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"this is the only math that i ever liked/made sense to me."

ST311 was the same way for me!

1/9/2011 10:52:59 PM

Philosophy of Science: forgot about that one. it was like going to the soapbox on TWW but with more stupid crap to read and a live action version in the class. but it was funny watching the teacher rip people's arguments apart every once in a while.

1/9/2011 11:00:21 PM

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"Phil of law"

With Levenbook? I’m not sure if I’m remembering that class or different one, but there was one where the professor really knew her stuff, but the grading system was really rough. Rather than the standard grading system where you earn points for each question you answer right building up from 0 closer and closer to 100 with each right answer, this class worked on the “nickel and dime system” where anything wrong factually or cosmetically could cost you like 10 or 15 points each time, so in theory you could make a -1000 on a homework assignment or quiz if enough things were wrong.

1/9/2011 11:22:03 PM

was levenbrook a her or a he?

i took both a phil of law class and an ethics class. i liked both a whole whole whole lot. but can't remember either profs name. one was taught by a female and one was taught by a male.

1/9/2011 11:23:19 PM

Spanish. That was one course I was not good at.

1/9/2011 11:24:17 PM

Worst of all- 101 philosophy class at wake tech. I couldn't take it after the topic about the existence of money.

CH 232 with Sandberg(burg?) was a close second. She would tell you to eat cat shit and smile at the same time.




Plants and Civilization on the other hand was one of the most awesome classes. I now know where the witches and broomsticks idea came from and still can not conceive how someone came up with the process to make coffee

1/9/2011 11:35:43 PM

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"the 2 or 3 classes i took with Adriana de Souza e Silva (or whatever) were pretty pointless she was kinda hot though"

+1
Terrible teacher. Her TA knew his shit though.


And what is the point of PE as a requirement, when everyone had it in HS?

1/9/2011 11:38:47 PM

Levenbook is a she. I just looked her up on school tool, found this:

susie Q:

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"I was afraid to ever speak out in class or act like I had any sort of opinion. She belittled and mocked students and passed off her own values as facts. One funny thing she said once was this: "Now, I'm not going to tell you where I stand on abortion because I don't think it's appropriate for this class, but out of curiosity, just a show of hands, who here thinks it's ok to kill babies?""

khcadwal:

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"even the ones that all the engineers hate on...like ethics"

I loved ethics. I took an ethics course during the summer at the end of my freshman year. I've had 6 ethics courses between undergrad and grad school, and several more classes than had an ethics component or subsection. I think that course is probably what turned me into a philosophy major. (most of my jobs have been animal related though, I wonder what my career path would have been if I had stuck with animal sci?)

I just took my Comps for my masters program on thursday and friday of last week. In the study sessions everyone was complaining about there being an ethics section and how that was going to be the hardest part, but I was psyched since it freed me up to study other stuff, and I still aced it.

1/9/2011 11:39:09 PM

hahahah how can someone hate ANS 105? You could sleep and still get an A+

Fuckin' hated ST311
ENG 390 Classical Backgrounds in Literature - hated that professo

1/9/2011 11:51:22 PM

ST311 and MA141

1/10/2011 12:00:28 AM

^^Yeah, I thought the content for 390 was pretty interesting, but it was definitely rough for an english course.

(On the other hand one of the best classes I ever had in undergrad was an English course, and I highly recommend any course with Dr Hunt)

1/10/2011 12:05:24 AM

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"And what is the point of PE as a requirement, when everyone had it in HS?"

Clearly, physical activity is not necessary or advisable after the age of 18.

You know damn well that there's a significant part of the student body who would eat nothing but burgers at Fountain and never move from their games of WoW if they weren't forced to.

1/10/2011 12:08:49 AM

fitness walking

1/10/2011 12:11:15 AM

imo I think you should have to take a PE every semester. It's not like its undue burden and the vast majority of the student body could use the extra activity.

1/10/2011 12:12:02 AM

I loved target archery as a PE, but its not exactly an important life skill.

1/10/2011 12:12:27 AM

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"CH 232 with Sandberg(burg?) was a close second. She would tell you to eat cat shit and smile at the same time."

you take that back. That was one of my favorite classes in college.

1/10/2011 12:17:00 AM

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"I loved ethics."

1/10/2011 12:30:41 AM