this conversation depicts exactly the type of professor I hope I never become. 1) the classroom != business meetings----------- in meetings, other people rely

this conversation depicts exactly the type of professor I hope I never become. 1) the classroom != business meetings----------- in meetings, other people rely on you being there. in lecture, professor just talks - he can give the same lecture to an empty room or to a full room. it doesn't matter 2) student is not responsible to the professor. ----- because the student's presence is not needed to make an effective lecture, the student has no responsibility to check with the TA or something. his presence is for his benefit alone, his absence is to his damage alone. 3) lecture is not affected by walk-ins and walk-outs ---- no student tries to "make a statement" by walking in late to class. it is not disruptive, if they walk in,find a spot, and sit down, quietly. the lecture is not affected, if they are focused, people hardly notice the door opening. it's like somebody coughing in lecture - who hears it, who remembers it? nobody. 4) professor is wrong to interpret this as deliberate action--- there are a million and one reasons to be late for class or go early. in a large class, a small subset will always have some kind of priority over lecture, be it conflict exams,interviews, small accidents on the way,or lecture sampling. this is completely understandable, the students' lives don't revolve around the lecture. 5) policies should become "strict" after 1st week ---- even if the professor decides to exercise his snobbiness by power of being a lecturer, he should have done so not in the first lecture, but made it clear to the entire class, multiple times during the first week, and started implementing it next week. dismissing the student is such a shallow, "i got the power", type of behavior. extremely disappointing display of insecurity of an NYU MBA professor. 6) urinating? ---- wow the professor goes over his head with his outrageous analogies. no logical sense.