I don't use this term pretty much ever, but you're an absolute chad.
How does bullshit like this not get overturned by the dean or the department?
I knew a girl who was kidnapped for 24hrs and their professor only gave them an extension for 24hrs
Every academic hexbear seems to have a story about how shit the phd pipeline is and the entitlement it produces.
The concept of lifetime tenure should just die. Old as shit tenured professors are often the worst shits imaginable.
I know a professor who has dementia who is still taking on students and teaching. They have had many people complain and many of their students in the past few years have either failed or had their phd's in limbo because the professor isn't providing any support or guidance. Its fucked.
Hey it’s been a viable strategy for the last two presidents
To be fair doing exactly nothing would be better than what most profs do to their phd students
“I have been teaching at this institution for 2 decades”
Weird that you don’t have the clout to not be fired
During my one (1) year trying to adjunct full time, I ran into this dumb attitude from full time profs, nearly all boomers but some Gen x too. Without fail, all were privileged assholes given their positions by friends or family.
I gave everyone extensions for no reason. Who gives a shit. You aren't going to remember this fucking gen ed in two months, just pass this uni-mandated exam and we're all good.
Edit: I can't begin to explain how shitty life is for adjuncts, so why the fuck would I care about their dumbass rules? Everyone is always present, no absences. Cheating? Emailed and said i know you copied this from a blog, the uni will kick you out for this shit. Everyone gets bonus points.
On the plus side, the uni had a business and work seminar talking about how great businesses are, so I spend the beginning of classes talking about their rights as workers
Man, I taught a 5 week summer class one time and this guy emails me after the last day but before final saying what thought it was the next 5 week session; he hadn’t attended a single class.
We agree that if he took the final and passed, he would just pass the entire class. He did better than the class average, i think he got a 76 or something, and I’m sure I kept a pretty good eye on him while taking the thing. He showed up for precisely one day, and went on his way. I didn’t see him again, hopefully his next math class went well, and he didn’t press his luck lol
When you put education behind a massive paywall it creates this kind of elitism
:rat-salute:
I got rid of all late penalties right before covid. Now the only rule is if you want comments on late work you have to let me know, otherwise I just grade it.
With a similar policy I find at least half submit on time, with another 1/4 in the 48 hrs after something is due. The final 4tb is all over.
Since I can't grade all instantly, the trickle more or less works, I spend my Saturday and Sunday grading as many as I get, then the rest come when they do.
Yeah it's averaged over two sections, so that helps too. If it's just one, the swings can be greater of course. Some students have more important classes or things in their life. Why be so egotistical as to penalize it.
I do make it clear that the final grade deadline matters bc I can't miss my deadline to the uni. So it's not like work can be delayed indefinitely. Plus a lot of them want to get on to the next assignment, etc.
I don’t want to study for a test, I want to learn
Edit: I was the asshole who liked essay tests because you don’t have to memorize shit just convey that you understand the concept
I'm an absolute piggy for tests because my specific brain problems make me really good at them and really bad at every other area of school. Doing them so much in high school really didn't set me up well at all for college.
Honestly, I'm working on my PhD and all of my professors have been amazing and have worked with me on getting things done even though I work and am disabled. It's not all bad, and younger professors are usually better.
Sure, #notallprofessors, but economics departments exists lmao
It really depends, I'm quitting my research group very soon for a reason, and that reason is the total incompetence of the advisor and how much of an unaware dipshit he is. And he's pretty young too, just been failing upwards his whole career.
Remembering the time I had a professor book a compsci exam immediately before a concert (I studied music as a major, this concert was equivalent to an exam) and he wouldn't let me move it so I took the exam in my tux then ran. He did it again that semester and I dropped his class.
I can't even figure out why someone would do this. Like the only thing I can think of is enforcing discipline as a means of self-reassurance that Academia is rigorous and difficult and important serious business for academics who are struggling to find meaning in their life's work.
Some people forget the most important rule of academia is "have fun." I nearly flew into a murderous rage once because I heard a Spanish professor go from lamenting low turn out in classes, then immediately bitterly call Spanish minors mercenaries just looking to inflate their resume. Sorry not everyone places a premium on reading El sid in the original Spanish, it just literally does not matter to most people at all, in the slightest ever, and you need to acknowledge that. I study things because I find them fascinating, and will never delude myself into thinking they are more important than anything else.
My experience of nursing school was a constant barrage of deadlines and tests. We averaged like 3 major tests a semester plus the final which was often a mix of new material and cumulative so most of my class was in constant study mode. I was the type to wait until the night before to refresh my memory but I had to start 2 weeks out to make sure I had enough time to memorize everything which basically was some minor studying leading up to a solid weekend of rote memorization and sitting at my computer copying my notes by hand and then retyping those notes multiple times. I got through with like all tests at 85%. The tests were also designed to match the NCLEX style of questions which meant they were multi-step and often trying to make you take the wrong answer.
The professors ranged from really cool and chill to extremely oppressive and demanding. There were no extensions, you needed like an 78%+ average to actually pass the class, if you failed NURS101 you had to reapply to the program and try to get accepted again unless there were significant external circumstances, if you failed anything past NURS101 you had a single extra try to pass but you couldn't fail again otherwise you were booted from the program. We had like 2-3 3 hour lectures a week depending on the course with lab time included in that. Then there was simulation that was a separate thing you needed to study for that consisted of a major portion of your grade. There was then also a 10 hour clinical rotation once a week where you'd spend a day working on a hospital unit which depending on your preceptor could be reasonable to obnoxious. My first preceptor was a nightmare and as a result our group of 8 shrank to 3 because her standards were obnoxious and led to multiple students just getting so overwhelmed they either failed out or gave up. After that 10 hour clinical we then had a full packet to fill out each week where we would have to write detailed notes on our patients, the packet took me like 4 hours to complete and my classmates could hit up to an additional 10 hours. That preceptor waived having us go into the hospital to look up our patients the day before because it was 30 minutes away from the campus to start with but we had to write detailed notes on the patient's diagnosis and answer in depth questions about their diagnosis and other conditions, even the really tertiary stuff. I think I averaged like 50-60 hours of work a week throughout nursing school with it gradually increasing as I got later into it, but the nature of my study methods meant that I'd have a week or two of like 30 hours and two weeks of like 80 hours.
Gotta say nursing school really does prep you to get crushed at work along with the traditional nurses eating their young.
What a great environment. Wonder why the average nursing career is less than two years.
:doomer:
I know several people who are now or were once nurses. And I'm starting to understand why they were all going batshit insane well before Covid.
All academics are snitches by default.
Producing knowledge under capitalism only shifts capitalism in continuing and refining itself.
All academics are cops. And all cops are bastards. Therefore all academics are bastards.
AAAB.
I worked at a 2 year institution for a couple years. The staff loved to talk about who they needed to call the cops on. For walking on the public institution property.
The professors called the cops on people walking around outside? :what-the-hell:
Right which is why I am confused on how that relates to academics being cops
Professors and the academic class are all cops and class traitors, now to dig in to Capital followed by the biographies of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
