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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5080lk/professors_teachers_of_reddit_whats_the_most/?st=ISH65D9N&sh=5af7a41c
rckchlkjyhwk
My grade 11 English teacher also had my sister as a student 6 yrs before. One day I got an F & she said "You're as stupid as your sister".
regicidalveggie
The parents are bad too. Direct quote: "after how he is treated at school my special boy can have whatever he wants." Never did his work.
Gwego
"Right now, you're a teacher. But that's temporary, right? What *real job* are you going to do afterwards?"
Deletingmypastandfuture
On the day of passing my masters another student said "well if HE/me did it..." She was the 1st one to not pass in history of program.
30SecondsToFail
Did anyone else hope to God that they didn't read about something they did?
thedysentery
Once had a student sign an email "Namaste."
ILoveFireEmblem
My favorite from that thread
333PuG333
In the very first philosophy class yesterday someone interrupted the professor to ask how we know the universe didn't start when he was born
333PuG333
This sparked a lot of people yelling over each other as the professor talked to someone else the whole time. I dropped that class lol
foebits
That one about the 4th grader getting into any university due to rich parents isn't pretentious, it's fucking true sadly.
rocketdonkey
idiots are people too
messmor
Was in a class of dental hygienist + dental assistant students when 1 da student asked what dentistry was.
Deletingmypastandfuture
all of these are great except the first one
SpaceCthulhu
Yeah, getting ripped off for drugs isn't really pretentious. And it sounds like a bad joke by student, or commenter just made it up.
RealScienceMan
"You just don't know me yet but I'm awesome" Guy was a fucking cunt.
RealScienceMan
My favorite one though is "I hate physics and math" but you're an engineering student.
MarkWhoGivesaFukFrom93Tv
Panda express actually pays well for fast food
WillJeSuis
PaperCl1p
This one reads a little exaggerated to me
SayWhatYouMeanMeanWhatYouSay
That does seem unpleasantly likely. Dude sounds seriously fubar.
closednetwork
The worst thing was when my english teacher made us write essays/answer questions based on HER interpertation of a book, not on ours.
cthulhusbestfriend
had a teacher like that. I just paid my roommate to write my papers
closednetwork
it was The Great Gatsby too! Like, I read the whole book in the first two class days. any time I had a test I'd just skim the chapter for it
closednetwork
then, for our next book, she asked questions on quotes from the book, so I got a pdf of it and did ctrl+F for all of them
CanduReactor
A lot of these sound like people who don't understand that being smart without knowing how to work hard doesn't get you very far in life.
slightlybored
...cont. and I stay quiet rather than correct things so I don't appear like some of the above, it is a problem what that change is useful
slightlybored
I am smart, I do not know how to work hard, I am trying to correct this, but damn it isn't easy to coast, and suddenly need to start running
Cerinna
In my uni/faculty the rich students are actually also the nicest ones. I'm often genuinely surprised to find out they're so rich.
JasonKu
Probably because their parents knew how to be wealthy, and not rich. You can be an asshole without money too
jonestown
jerk is an equal opportunity employer
Cerinna
That is true. They do all have super nice down to earth parents who earned their money themselves, so their kids are hard workers too.
JasonD
Some of them don't know what pretentious means.
maymaysLOL
exactly... i just read some of them over and over cause i thought i was missing something
PhiIIipJFry
"Mishearing precocious is the most pretentious thing a person can possibly do"
futureman3000
*Most of them.
Thekingofbeans
A lot of these are just assholes.
AFineDayForScience
Right? And in this one the student was even correct
TotallyNotYourTeacher
I suddenly appreciate my students' reasonableness.
Tamatoa
I hear that!
BrazilianThunderPanda
In fairness "I don't have the personality to be a nurse." Is a fair consideration.
elninjapenguin
In high school worked with dumb girl, who wanted to be dentist, but said books were for losers. Asked how she planned on getting through 1/?
elninjapenguin
dental school without using books. Her: "I'm sure they've come up with a way to teach dentist stuff with out making people use stupid...2/?
elninjapenguin
letters and little numbers?" Gone after first exam. Now I'm remembering all the dumb work stories. Wife and I will laugh tonight. 5/5
elninjapenguin
no way it's her. About 10 minutes into class hand goes up, hear her awful voice, "So do we find this atomic mass from the squares with 4/?
elninjapenguin
books by now!" 2 years later, in my brief time in pre med classes, sure enough, there she is in one of my chem classes. I'm thinking, 3/?
padgie
From the other end of the spectrum, there are the professor's who only give As to freshman papers they deem, "publishable."
padgie
Also, my phone added the apostrophe to "professors." Learn grammar, phone!
padgie
And psych professors who teach from their own textbook praising Freud.
TheRealEngali
Very few of these are about someone being pretentious, though. In b4 someone calls me pretentious, that's not what that means.
longrodvonhugendong
Had a student compare me to Hitler because I wouldn't bump him up half a letter grade, told me "he calls them as he sees them" and then 1/2
longrodvonhugendong
(2/2) told me that the cancer I had just beat didn't try hard enough to kill me.
thefangirlfiles
I hear you. I was teaching Night, and a kid claimed that my class was worse than a concentration camp. He obviously didn't read the book!
longrodvonhugendong
I fear for humanity
Squossifrage
So you bumped him down half a letter grade instead?
longrodvonhugendong
Haha I wish I could have.
Yupurineutah
The museum one made me think of creationist "university".
irishmts
The scary thing about that though is that some of the people there have actual scientific degrees, and still believe in Creationism
falala78
Thats sad. Even the Catholic Church believes in the big bang theory and evolution
Ishalldefenestrateyou
Most of those people I know believe the universe was created by God via the big bang, and evolution is how he made life on Earth.
irishmts
and thats a perfectly acceptable belief to have in this day and age. But go watch the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, thats when 1/2
irishmts
things get a little scary 2/2
quatroquatroquatroquatro
In undergrad biochem this girl corrected the German professor (PhD) on his pronunciation of duodenum.
anitabieror6
when I was in school everyone in my class including the teacherusually said "du-odenum or duo-denum, however you wanna say it"
quatroquatroquatroquatro
She even had the stones to say she knew because she was a TA for freshman bio lab...
MyFatherWillHearOfThis
Who had the pronunciation wrong, then? Was his pronunciation off due to accent, or was her pronunciation wrong just because?
quatroquatroquatroquatro
I thought he was off because of accent, but I just looked it up and he was right. Apparently not many people in the US say it correctly...
splitleveledmaroon
The $18k watch one is just sad. Poor kid just wanted his parents around
RheaButt
When someone like that tries to put other people down it's hard for me to feel sympathy for them though
sowetoninja
That one kinda got to me TBO. I've seen first hand what (emotional, not just physical-) neglect can do to children. It's flat out abuse.
notthefluffymacheen
I know of a guy in a similar situation. Total jerk, but rich parents who are never around. Plays USTA tennis and gets beat if he loses.
splitleveledmaroon
i kinda wanna be his friend
unitedhello
Yeah, he's bragging about it because he's clinging to the shit his parents throw at him as their signs of affection.
iperblastoma
That's Just sad. The cheapest Patek Philippe Ever!!
cranialpleasure
Yeah that one was actually kinda gut wrenching
DJTrickyM
I didnt need these feels today
cephalopodrex
It's the only time his parents ever gave him
DoctorGoldfish
God damn, man
AnythingMuchShorter
Yeah, that's definitely just another way of saying "see, they do value me, as much as a real person! See!"
splitleveledmaroon
dun do dis ;w; it makes me cri
RandomIsotope
I am wondering if that is the watch that was given to Roland in the Dark Tower Series.
kmikl
I'm giving you a +1, but I don't recall the make of the watch he was given.
MrForgetfulable
In chemistry class. Teacher says we'll make all kinds of stuff this year. Me: what about tnt? "Only if you can tell me what it stands for."
MrForgetfulable
Without missing a beat, I remembered the scene from Richie Rich and blurted out "Tri-Nitro-Toluene" the look of pure confusion as to WHY I..
MrForgetfulable
Know what that is so confidently at that age. He didn't say a word and just walked away from me. Still remember his expression.
deutsch5
I had a chemistry class in undergrad with a girl who had to ask what a decimal was. We were already halfway through the semester...
Shelest
"Huh, interesting... Do you think I should catch up on this stuff?"
doctorbees
Reminds me of the kid I took driver's ed with who asked (non-sarcastically, completely serious) which pedal was the gas last week of class.
daizzey
When I took Calculus we did group work for a review algebra assignment and this girl couldn't graph without just plugging points in.
JohnWildkins
I suppose it's not as bad, but a guy in our programming class asked the other day if he needed to buy Java from the bookstore.
tangybreath
I was a TA and had to teach a uni student how to go from fractions to percents. She proudly told me that she got out of the biostats prereq
Sheepyhead
I had 3 years of high level math-focused general education out of grade school with a guy who couldn't add two fractions together
Sheepyhead
By the end he still couldn't identify a quadratic equation
crumbhustler
ha what an idiot. What did you end up telling her anyway? I have a friend that doesn't know either.
MyFatherWillHearOfThis
Assuming it's "decimal point", it's the dot you use to separate a "whole" number from the fractional part of it.
BeepBoopBlorpSchlorp
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Thoraxe123
For our architecture project we were given a weird shaped box that represented the space we could work in. Meaning we could build (1/)
Thoraxe123
This is a design based major.he failed the project (3/3)
Thoraxe123
Whatever we wanted, as long as we didn't go through that area. A student made his building the exact shape of the boundaries... (2/3)
GentlemanBart
I am in my master Chemical Engineering and a girl asked how she can know the slope between 2 given points. Other example is: presentation1/2
GentlemanBart
where they claimed centrifugal force is similar like how the moon circles the earth. Those are masters in engineering...
StandardDeviant
this is why some people are afraid of flying.
Nalianna
(y1-y2)/(x1-x2) ? (been a while for me... basically difference in Y divided by difference in X (and positive if line rises (to the right) ?
GentlemanBart
Yup...
jojacob
Yes. Or take the derivative if you want a instantaneous tangent. (slope at point vs slope between two points)