Way Number EIGHT to FAIL as a Professor

Being over here in Germany without an Abi is a sure-fire way to make sure your options for getting an undergraduate education are pretty limited. As it stands, I have the options of UMUC, AMU, or University of Phoenix. (Does anyone actually even go there??) I am more than well aware that I was accepted to a much better university in Canada before I decided to move over here. So UMUC it is, knowing that it's only a stepping stone to my graduate education. I'll take what I can get. But still. The university says it's trying to better its reputation. But all I see is ways they're making things worse. Be it ridiculous tuition fee increases that beat out schools that are actually well-respected, or the hiring of douche-bag professors (although every college has 'em), UMUC really isn't doing much controlling to make sure their professors are any good.

Last semester, it was the douche of "Way number seven to FAIL as a professor" who introduced me to the fact many teachers are really lazy. They steal their quizzes from the textbook web-sites complete with the same answers... in the same order. They don't even change the numbers to alter the calculations. Because that would be too HARD and TIME CONSUMING. I wonder if students actually realise this. I'm thinking not, seeing as my last douche Economics professor and this new douche keep berating half the class for their failing grades. Do people not Google the quiz questions to see if they can find any help outside the textbook?

Lucky for me in this class, I've already done most of the work in high school. I didn't have a problem with the quizzes thus far. In fact, this quiz still wasn't really much trouble, except for one question. So I went Google-hunting. And what did I find?

Companion web-site.

I'll be honest. I'm one of those people that is so non-cheating that I'll actually do my quiz without consulting the companion site first because I don't want to be screwed up the butt on the midterm and final exams when I find out I never actually learned the material. But I would be an idiot not to check my answers on the quiz to make sure they're right.

I can't believe it took me half the semester to realise that this professor was being a lazy-ass douche, just like my Economics professor. And notice how I'm not yet revealing what class this is? I'll do it after I get my grades... But seriously.

Here it is.

Way Number EIGHT to FAIL as a Professor:

Being a lazy-ass bastard does not equate to being a good professor. I could care less if you've got a PhD. You're lazy, and obviously just teaching the class for the easy money. Copy and paste from the companion site? Sure. After all, since you've already got that lovely doctorate, who cares? You did that whole part of being original in your thesis. Why be original for a bunch of arts students who are working on their lowly degrees? After all, they're all caught up in the realm of "thought" and don't have anything relevant to offer the world, anyway.

But that doesn't mean we're stupid. You're lazy. And copy/pasting does NOT equal teaching. Get off your ass and actually give us something other than the text and your stupid companion site. I don't care if you make a crappy wage. Do the work you're paid to do. If you don't like it, go somewhere else.