Wednesday, November 6, 2013

tips on how to not be the worst professor ever.

Have you ever had a professor that assigned the most ridiculous, non-useful, time-consuming assignments?
Yeah I'm in the middle of that right now.
The first half of the semester had zero assignments, and then one day it was like "oh by the way, your first annotated bibliography is due in two days. There are a million asinine technical requirements about stuff that totally doesn't matter, and each one is going to take you at least an hour. Only one is due in two days so I can tear it apart but after that you are welcome to turn the rest in early. There will be ten total and they are all due at the same time."
So,  here I am, almost three hours in and I have one more assignment.
Oh, but that's only to fulfill the requirement for what's due tomorrow. Four of them are due tomorrow. I still have five more to do.
My brain is heavy from reading and summarizing studies about children's play.
Oh, and at the end of the semester I'll have a seven page research paper in which I have to somehow tie together all ten bibliographies that I summarized. How backwards.

There are some people who should not be teachers. Being an incredibly boring speaker, never varying your lectures and giving the WORST assignments ever is a fast way to make people hate you.
Just so you all know.

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