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This semester I have two "fun" professors. One always finishes class 25-30 minutes early- just completely stops lecturing for the day, not for questions or anyt
by spike021 11y ago
This semester I have two "fun" professors. One always finishes class 25-30 minutes early- just completely stops lecturing for the day, not for questions or anything. Add up every single class he does it for the whole semester and the sum is probably worth about a third of the entire semester. That's quite a bit of money down the drain. A second professor that I have has openly stated he has "stolen" and only _slightly_ modified (his words, not mine) slides from some other member of faculty here (who I think got them from Stanford); the system we use for classwork/quizzes/etc. is from some other university and he didn't even know when we'd have our midterm because he hasn't even started to think about writing one yet since he "can't get it from anyone else and needs to write one" on his own (again, his words).
The latter situation has been rather commonplace with many classes I've taken here for my degree. It's just not right. I feel like my time and money are being wasted, and rather than gaining valuable knowledge and experience, this is all rather just a detrimental experience in and of itself.
No, it's not worth the cost. From what everyone has told me or everything I've read in the past, we need degrees otherwise the chance of landing a job (in my case software engineering) plummets and only some are lucky enough to be successful without one.
And so here I am, losing out on more even than just money with not much to show for it.
- beachstartup 11y ago> this is all rather just a detrimental experience in and of itself. heck, that's nothing! wait until they lose one of your exams, or you write an essay that goes against a professor's political beliefs. that's when the real fun starts and you start making time/money cost benefit analyses with your own ethics! make a deal with the devil, or waste several thousands dollars and 10 weeks? ...then again, if that isn't real world experience, what is???
- bojo 11y agoBack when I was in university I had a professor consistently show up 15 minutes late to our 1 hour lectures, read their online slides verbatim with no embellishment to enhance our understanding, and took a numerous amount of lectures off to go skiing. When confronted about it, I was told that people passing the class with high scores are the ones who don't even show up and studied straight out of the book on their own time.
- spdionis 11y agoBtw, generally, I would not consider sharing teaching resources between professors a bad thing. I actually think it's great in most cases. Stolen might probably be a hard word, if the other member of the faculty agreed to give the slidesor simply didn't care.
- Matachines 11y agoSimilar situation here: My discrete mathematics professor last year pretty much used everything from the MIT OCW Mathematics for Computer Science books. Homework, exams, lectures (even the jokes in the video lectures!).