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Choose your classes based on the professor, not the topic. Good professors can make a boring topic seem interesting; bad professors can make the most interesti
by michael_dorfman 17y ago
Choose your classes based on the professor, not the topic. Good professors can make a boring topic seem interesting; bad professors can make the most interesting topic seem boring.
Therefore: ask around to find out who the outstanding professors are, and take whatever courses they are offering.
- sp332 17y agoCame here to post this. Also, if you're interested in a subject (even if the class seems boring) ask the teacher for outside reading material. Chances are, if they've been around for any length of time, they know where the good stuff is.
- Cecil 17y agoThis is what I came to say as well. This is the single most important thing to base your class selection on.
- peregrine 17y agohttp://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/
- smokinn 17y agoTake this site with a huge grain of salt. It generally rewards easy professors and punishes hard ones. Many of the best teachers at my school had so-so records on the site because they weren't afraid of failing people. People that do average or well in a class are much less likely to fill out the form on that site than someone who's looking to spite the professor that just failed them. The corollary is also true, that easy but useless professors tend to have high scores. The best advice for picking professors is to make friends with people in your program that are further along than you and ask them who their favourite professors were and why. If they say he was great because the class was easy and you got an A avoid that professor, you won't learn a thing. If they say something like well I didn't get a great mark but I learned so much that it was worth it that's the professor you want.
- cliffw 17y agoGood advice. Every semester register for an extra class, then after the first week drop the one with the worst professor.