My professor is an infuriating man....

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02 May 2007, 7:40 pm

Hate is a strong word, but I could most definately apply it to him. He seems to revel in making his class overly difficult for no good reason. This clown deletes the class notes from the server without warning. We had group projects, someone *literally* did not let me join a group due to racist reasons and he did not let me join another group. But the final straw tears it.

At my university, they give us a series of forms you take to your professor that allow you to use your accomodations per what your diagnosis says. I"ve asked in the past to use a single sheet of scrap paper on an exam to solve math problems to whiich he said no. I usually do not need assistance in many of my classes so I forgo the accomodations but he wouldn't even allow me to use a scrap sheet of paper, so my hand was forced.

He is willing to comply, but he is making it absolutely most diffiicult to do so. Typically, most professors simply leave the exam in a mailbox or with a secretary in a sealed envelope, and require double signatures from the secretary of both offices (disability dept and offiice secretary) in order for the test to be valiid. However, he specifically has me come in first thing in the morning (8am) in his office to personally pick up the test.

So now I have to get to the middle of downtown during the peak of rushour. I must then walk it over, wait an hour for the DIS dept to open, take the test and hand deliver it to him before 1230am.

I HATE this professor. I know it is a strong word, but he has gone out of his way to garner it. IF ever there was someone who I wish to be run over by a bus, it would be him.

f*****g as*hole. Thank God he's retiring.



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02 May 2007, 7:50 pm

I had a professor this semester who refused to let me have a copy of the class notes (which were on powerpoint that she presented to the class each lecture). I have a hard time bc of CAPD hearing the instructor AND copying notes from slides at the same time. It wasn't too much to ask, but she wouldn't comply until I went through the disabilities office to twist her arm. After that, she was chronically late getting them to me.


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02 May 2007, 11:44 pm

I have found the less actual power someone has the more they will force what little power they can manipulate onto whom ever is most vulnerable.

academics are the worst I have ever encountered in this example.

wait until you are in Grad School and they consider you their personal slave. (thank you, Sir, may I have another?)

the problem is, it is self perpetuating, and those grad school slaves graduate to be even worse A**holes and the next phase begins.

ugh!

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03 May 2007, 9:33 am

That doesn't sound legal. Can you put in a complaint? You DO NOT have to put up with that.


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