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I had an art history teacher who tried to fail me saying that I never came to class. He said I missed at least 2 out of 3 classes each week. My first question was, "How are you taking attendance?" The class was in a 150ish seat auditorium with about 100 people in the class. So there were quite a few open seats. He answered with, "The first day, the quiz, that's why I had everyone put their quiz on top of the one being passed down the row. I wrote that down as you seat for the semester."

My second question was, "Were you going to inform anyone of this?" I never sat in the same seat every class.

Then my third and fourth questions kind of came together, "So how many other people do you have as not showing up to class and were they also not informed of mandatory seating assignments?" He admitted there were quite a few this semester who weren't showing up and was surprised. This of course was the first time it was offered in such a large classroom format. And he never did inform anyone that this was the way he was taking attendance.

I had the grades to get a B. I had to go to the Dean and finally got my grade. What really saved me was the guy would have pop quizzes all the time, which I didn't miss any. The idiot even had me marked down as absent on a day I got an A on the pop quiz he threw.
 
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Back in the day, had the serial sexual harasser political science professor. Called on people in class, always had a comment on whatever a woman was wearing. Would set up consultations on projects in office. Scheduled all the women at night. A friend and I would always go together to the other’s meeting and one time he asked if we wanted a three way.:rolleyes: I think there were about 10 women in the class, and we compared notes. He said something creepy and inappropriate to all of us at some point. The sad thing was, he was great at teaching content of the class if only he wasn’t a creepy perv.
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Had a professor in the engineering mechanics department that had a bumper sticker in his office which read "Feminism is the thought that women are people too." Dude hated the idea of women in engineering. Was also a grade-a *******. Once had a kid reading the paper during his lecture (a dumb thing to do, anyway)...the prof walked up to him, ripped the paper out of his hands and said "get the hell out of my classroom!"
 
Had a professor who at the beginning of the semester told us he was changing up the format of the class and wouldn't require weekly homework like he had in previous years, just have suggested problems from the textbook. Not a huge deal, less required work for all of us.

Secondly, this was a class scheduled for Monday and Friday, with a weekly lab. In the first week the professor asks if there would be interest in holding optional supplemental lectures on Wednesdays such as before exams, or when he had a travel conflict and had to reschedule. This was fine for some people in the class, but others (myself included) had conflicts with other classes, work, etc. He ends up having lectures on all but two Wednesdays throughout the year that he treated like normal lectures, covering new material, and being upset when people with conflicts asked question on this material later.

Come the end of the semester, on class/professor evaluation day, he handed out the evaluation form and stepped outside while we filled them out. After we had done the evaluations, he comes back into the room and tells us that he thinks we are the laziest class he has ever had and that these lecture had some of the worst attendance he had ever seen.

It didn't help me that this guy also had some sort of grudge with the professor I was working with, and showed disdain for me the whole semester after he found out.
 
Jon Perkins in the accounting department can also **** off. First tax exam he gives us (I think in his first semester of teaching at Iowa State) there's five minutes left of class and not a single person has turned in their exam. He takes them all and calls us stupid and says "this test only took me 22 minutes to finish!" and that he'll grade based on the work that's been done. Obviously the results are lackluster and he says that he feels our class isn't taking the class seriously and he just wants to fail everyone and save all of our time.

I keep in touch with 4 people from that class. Amongst the 5 of us, there are 5 CPAs and not a single failed exam. At some point when we're all together drinking I'm guessing licenses are going to get pulled online and e-mailed to the ass hole.
 
I'll share a couple good ones to mix in with all these amazingly bad stories...

My prof for concrete design (Civil Eng. major) was in his last semester of teaching. Dude had stacks and stacks of money. He was a good prof and would always mix in hilarious stories. He was late getting our exams graded and back to us. He walked in the lecture and said "I know I was supposed to return your exams today, but I had some friends in town last night and I was in no condition to be grading exams."

He wore a bright orange shirt with a black tie around Halloween one year. In the middle of the lecture, he paused, turned to the class and said "don't ever go shirt shopping after you've been to the bar."
 
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Had a professor in Materials Engineering that was from someplace like Turkey and didn't speak English very well. I'm sure he knew what he was talking about, but I could never understand him. I skipped most of the classes, only attending the review days before the tests and did OK.

The kicker was the final exam, though. I did the usual - go to the review with the TA, and study off of that. We normally met in Physics 5 (when it was old and crappy), but we were told that our location for the final was Carver 101. Well, we started noticing things weren't quite right when we saw quite a few women in the room with us. Figured out there was a scheduling snafu, so our TA sends us to Physics 5. This is after the test has been handed out.

Get to Physics 5, the professor gets us seated and goes to the office area behind the board to call somebody and figure out why we got messed up on our lecture hall. He did this with his mic on, so we all got to hear his end of the conversation.

Oh yeah, and the final was absolutely nothing like what the review was. It was pretty much unpassable. The department took pity on us and basically dropped that grade.
 
And, almost forgot this one, first in a series of two landscape architect construction classes (more earthwork, layout, sewers pipes etc). I got sick with Crohn's disease during the quarter and ended up in the hospital. I tried to dropped the class because I had missed too much. Nope. Asked for an incomplete so i could retake it. Nope. Struggled through the rest of the quarter sick. Opened grade card and he had flunked me because i didn't meet his standards on the final test. I was home for the summer and sent him a letter explaining things and reminding him I had been sick and asked for an incomplete. ******* sent me back a response that "he kinda remembered some of this" and changed my grade to a D. Great, four credits of D. Still had to take the second in the series from him the next fall. Got an A for that class. Seriously don't even think the guy knew who I was in that 2nd class, he was one weird and mean guy. Had my friend's Sandy and Judy in tears more than once when they took his classes.
 
I have two stories:

I took French 110 over the summer. At the time, it got you the 8 required foreign language credits for my degree. The first four-week session, we had a lovely instructor who helped everyone in class. For the second session, this d-bag shows up. Within a week, he had picked out his favorite (some guy who already was fluent in three other languages), his mid-favorites, and those he disliked. A few of those he disliked, he went out of his way to embarrass and humiliate in front of the whole class. We had a study group and I helped a lot of those guys, when we weren't throwing shade on the instructor. The day before the final, the prof decides there's nothing more to teach or provide prep material. However, instead of letting us leave early to prepare, he goes on a two+ hour rant about Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Knowing I was an English major, he called me out on it a few times, saying "You haven't studied it? You will." We were all pissed. After the test, I wrote a two-page rip on him for the evaluation. I was working at Target as well. He came in a few weeks later, saw me, and immediately turned away!

The first time I took Medieval Lit, the instructor provided a syllabus, of course. We were scheduled to study Beowulf for a week or so and then move on. 12 weeks later, we're still studying freakin' Beowulf because he's not happy with the essays that are being turned in. Finally, we move on and I'm totally lost. The tipping point was during Dead Week. "Oh, be sure to read these following stories as well. They'll be on the final, too." We hadn't even had a chance to read or discuss those stories. Nuts to that; I skipped the final. I contacted him later that day. The conversation went like this:
Me: "...so what are my options?"
Prof: "You can take an incomplete or an F."
Me: "What if I take the incomplete?"
P: "You'll need to take my final before [time x]."
M: "Well, I don't think I can pass your final. I'll take the F."
I retook the class over the summer from a different professor. After two days of Beowulf, he goes "Beowulf's kind of important, but there's better stuff to get to. Let's move on." My F was replaced with an A.
 
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I had an English professor that was leaving for a job in IT at the end of the semester. He decided that he didn't care about teaching and spent the entire semester talking about and watching videos on conspiracy theories (9/11, Waco, etc). The grade for the class was based on two papers that you could rewrite until you got the grade you wanted and a paper for the final.
 
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AgronAlum said:
I had an English professor that was leaving for a job in IT at the end of the semester. He decided that he didn't care about teaching and spent the entire semester talking about and watching videos on conspiracy theories (9/11, Waco, etc). The grade for the class was based on two papers that you could rewrite until you got the grade you wanted and a paper for the final.
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I had a teacher that was along those lines of checked out. It's a great feeling while it's happening, but looking back it's just like "I went to college and that was a part of my education" hahah
 
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Wasn't a bad professor but had an English professor get what I assume was some sort of cancer. He told us at the beginning of the semester he had been diagnosed with a very minor form of cancer and might miss a class or two throughout the semester. Mid way through the semester we had two straight weeks of class cancelled and never got a reason for it. Finally we had a sub email us to come in and she said she'd be our replacement for the rest of the semester. We had a major assignment that took a lot of time that never got graded the entire semester and dropped from grading. Then we had another assignment that original professor gave us instructions and said he did this assignment different from others in the English department. Well he left before it was graded and the new professor gave everyone but me less than 75%. I missed the day he said he did this assignment different from others and asked friends in another class how to do it and I got a 92%. Big uproar in the class on the day we got grades back and the professor's solution was to give everyone 10% on their grade for the confusion. So on the biggest assignment of the class I got a 102%
 
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