This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Mass Amherst chapter.
When the time rolls around to pick classes we all rush to Rate My Professors to see which instructors will be worth waking up at 8 a.m. for. But sometimes getting a less-than-stellar professor isn’t a choice. Classes with 5-star professors fill up insanely fast and sometimes we’re left to endure the pains and frustrations of a less-than-ideal situation. Fortunately, it happens to everyone — including me. Keep in mind, there’s a difference between a tough professor and a professor that just can’t explain topics well and creates syllabi that are impossible to keep up with as college students with a thousand other assignments to worry about. The Office apparently knows the experience all too well.
1. When you’re sitting in your room for two hours staring at homework full of material your professor didn’t teach. Well, you know what they say: Fake it ’til you make it.
2. When a professor reads directly off a slide. Yes, sir/ma’am, I’m very capable of reading as well, but could you please EXPLAIN what all that means?
3. When the professor doesn’t ever address the six books they made you spend $200 on in the beginning of the semester.
4. When the professor calls on someone to answer a question but no one understood any of the lecture.
5. When the professor makes up a million excuses as to why it’s taken them a month to grade one short essay.
6. Every time you leave their class.
7. When you see your mid-semester grade on Moodle and have to start thinking of lies to tell your parents as to why your grade sucks so much, because saying “I have a bad professor” sounds like a lie.
8. When the professor finishes a nonsense lecture and has the audacity to say “Any questions?”
9. Debating whether or not to pull the fire alarm just to escape your horrible professor.
10. When they assign a mountain of work to do over every. Single. Break.
11. But then again, break means getting away from that professor and…
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