The Ranting Room

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Here's a new rant:

Let me post here a letter I wrote to one of my teachers this past semester.  He was the worst teacher I have ever had.  notice I refer to him as "teacher", not "professor", because he doesn't even have a master's degree, yet somehow he's teaching a college course in continuous and discrete systems to Junior level electrical engineers...
This man made me more angry and stressed than any other human ever has.  He actually curved the final exam DOWN so my 88% only counted as a C.  what a douchebag.

so here it is:

Mr. xxxxxxx,

Imagine being back in undergrad, and going to class with a teacher who
does so many things wrong that he's near impossible to learn from.  This
teacher consistently makes mistakes during lecture, and while doing
proofs, will write himself into a corner, discover his mistake, and
instead of fixing it, he will wave his hands and write the answer.
Imagine trying to understand difficult material in these conditions.
When he writes on the board, most of the writing is totally illegible,
and when he makes mistakes, he rubs it out with his finger instead of
using an eraser, making the scrawl even more difficult to read.  You
attend every single lecture, but you rarely learn anything.  Imagine
that this man has a GTA who is clearly a hardworking, intelligent girl,
who has to lecture to the class on occasion, but when she does, the
teacher corrects her constantly and treats her as if she were a stupid
child.  This teacher, after the first exam, chooses a small group of
exceptional students, and chooses to only listen to the opinions of
these select few for the rest of the semester.  Imagine that this
teacher spends more than half the semester "teaching" material that was
not even on the class syllabus, and spends very little time on more
important material.  This teacher assigns homeworks that consume
entirely too much of your time and deal with superfluous proofs instead
of actual engineering applications.  Imagine, then, that after a
semester of hardwork and mediocre return that you decide to study extra
hard for the final exam and you earn a B+ on it, which is a pretty good
grade for this class.  But, then of course, the worst is not over.  You
find out that your teacher decided to turn your hard-earned B+ into a C,
because it's "raw statistical data".

Understandably, you would be pretty be frustrated with this "teacher",
who in fact wasn't even the teacher you signed up for, but a last minute
substitute.

Mr. xxxxxx, you are easily and by far the worst teacher I have ever had
in my life.  I really wanted to learn this material, but I now disdain
it because of you.  I hope you feel no sense of accomplishment for your
"teaching" this semester, and I hope no students are ever subjected to
your "teaching" again.

Sincerely,


yeah, this guy sucks.  but so far I've received no reply.

EDIT:  I probably shouldnt post his name here... just in case.



Edited by GoldenSpiral - May 24 2006 at 14:24

I hate Amazon.com and hope I will never have to order anything from them again! This piece-of- company is apparantly so congested with orders that they can't even ship a cd or book to me in a reasonable amount of time, not to mention they have the selection and incredibly overpriced cds. I ordered the Marillion biography Seperated Out before Christmas. After delaying the shipping date for two months--keeping my hopes up BTW--they emailed and said they didn't even have the thing!!! Just now, I found out they delayed my Aisles cd until late June-early July. Dejau vu?!?!! Well Amazon, their  selection, and  their delayed orders (with no form of compensation at all!!!!!)

Edited by stonebeard - May 24 2006 at 15:32

You're just unlucky, I've had no issues with Amazon!

But I am using them less and less, because there is cheaper available.

People who listen to sh*tty music in their cars really loud.

It's bad enough for the poor souls trapped inside, but must the rest of the world be forced to listen to that rubbish?  Honestly, how can you even enjoy the music if it's turned up so loud that people can hear it a mile away.  Every time I hear somebody blasting some sh*tty rap obnoxiously loud, I feel like I must listen to some real music in order to redeem myself.

And I also hate when people wear popped collars.  They look so incredibly stupid!


Edited by Bluesaga - May 24 2006 at 21:33

But he is!

Apparently Dave Matthews has just hit the UK!  He's got a whole concert on the radio over here soon.

GoldenSpiral wrote: Bluesaga wrote: People who listen to sh*tty music in their cars really loud. It's bad enough for the poor souls trapped inside, but must the rest of the world be forced to listen to that rubbish?  Honestly, how can you even enjoy the music if it's turned up so loud that people can hear it a mile away.  Every time I hear somebody blasting some sh*tty rap obnoxiously loud, I feel like I must listen to some real music in order to redeem myself. Hey!  I'm one of those people!  Except I play metal and prog really loud.

Well, there is a difference between loud and obnoxiously loud.

^ I get pretty obnoxiously loud.  I have a sub in the trunk, which really pounds when I roll down the windows and sing Genesis.

GoldenSpiral wrote: ^ boy, are you in for it. One time someone tried to play DMB at a party in my apartment and I made a huge scene when I shut it off immediately.

I haven't heard much DMB, but they're very bland.  Still, there is much worse today unfortunately.

Bluesaga wrote: GoldenSpiral wrote: ^ boy, are you in for it. One time someone tried to play DMB at a party in my apartment and I made a huge scene when I shut it off immediately. I haven't heard much DMB, but they're very bland.  Still, there is much worse today unfortunately.

I've heard more than I will ever want to, bland, bland, bland, just atypical fratrock.