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Professor kicked me out of the honors program, I sent him an email a year later.
- chad_oliver 14y agoOh, snap! You really showed him who's boss. But seriously, gloating is not considered good form. Showing off how effectively you gloated is even worse form.
- fairramone 14y agoBitter much?
- aeontech 14y agoYeah, what chad_oliver said, this is a bit childish. What do you win by this?
- manglav 14y agoIt's really not about winning or losing, it's to show that good ideas, sometimes REALLY good ideas are stifled in an academic environment. And to show that the Professors who have obscene amounts of power in college don't use it responsibly. Why give them so much power over students if they won't wield it with the public interest in mind? Especially at a public university? How could a Professor not see the potential of this idea? The student tried the limited amount of recourse he had at his disposal, and eventually gave up, and pursued the project on his own time, lucky for us.
- ryanmolden 14y agoAnd sometimes good ideas, really good ideas, get stifled by <significant others, bosses, industries, societies, etc...>. Reward is in the success, going back to gloat just makes you look like an ass and doesn't teach anyone anything, except maybe that you are a major dick. Was the professor in the wrong? Maybe, we have a very one sided story here, not the facts, but the facts as seen through the lens of one of the participants, one exhibiting enough childishness to make me seriously doubt their telling in which they were akin to Ghandi fighting the oppressive British Empire.
- ryanmolden 14y agoWell, the best revenge is success, but this kind of thing just makes them look childish and crass.
- batista 14y ago40.000 in grants? Mentioned in The Atlantic, Forbes, and US News? Sorry, but that doesn't sound impressive at all. If you had exited for several tens of millions, or build a hundred million long-term company, that might have been something to instill some jealousy on the professor, but would still be nothing to counter an academic judgement.
- dingous 14y ago40k for a bachelor level research project? sounds pretty impressive for something that isn't even a business.
- parasitius 14y agoThis is awesome. I had a friend who partied … way too hard and begged not to be given academic suspension. When he came back a year later he saw to it to maintain a 4.0 and mail reports of his grades to all the professors who had booted him each semester.