Funny occurances in life or How I got a TA In Trouble In College

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Kanalua
I'm sure nobody will read this; but I have to add my own douche University Professor story:

Took a Native American Studies class at a very Conservative school. The Professor heavily slanted the class in a liberal bias. Me being an conservative & indigenous citizen of this great Nation often dis-agreed with the perspective and obvious out-right lies that the professor tried to pass as fact in the class (mainly Anti-Regan rants and anti-free markets tirades). Most of the students were white folk, and were very reluctant to speak up (white guilt). So, as an indigenous citizen, no white guilt, I had no problems getting into it with the teacher. THis was a history class, mainly, dabbing in a few current issues, not a policy bashing, revisionist time machine hour that the professor liked to make it.

Anyway, cut to the chase, the final paper in the class was a report about one of Vine Deloria's books (a Native American, though not from the reservation, author/activist). This report would amount to 40% of our grade for the semester.

The book we reviewed was actually very insightful and engaging. I wrote mainly about how much I agreed with Vine Deloria about his issues with Tribal Governments and the power the Native people needed to take back from their own oppressors within (Corruption, Chemical Addictions, etc). My professor returned the paper and it was obvious he had not read the paper at all. He left no marks on the writing, and included a one-page typed "response" to my paper. In his response he assumed arguments that I did not make in my paper (or could be reasonably inferred from) and criticized me for not recognizing the arguments that Deloria was making in his book (which I clearly had). The most infuriating thing was that he ended his "response" with paragraph about having to be able to see things from other peoples perspectives and that I need to look at the Native American issues Deloria writes about from his perspective and not dismiss his perspective because I may disagree with him. It's great point, the only problem is I agreed with the author and my paper accepted and argued in favor of the authors perspective and arguments!

I wrote up a response to his "response" point out all the flaws in the grading and suggesting he read my paper before assigning me a grade. I copied the paper, response and my re-tort, and gave him a copy (left in his box outside his office per his instruction) and then met with him the next day after he had a chance to review my paper. Of course I kept all the originals just in case I had to take this to the Dean of the Department.

His meeting with me avoided all questions and analysis of the paper. I confronted him with the fact that my roommate, a Navajo, wrote a piss poor paper and got a B+ (he never read the book, only wrote about his rage at the white man and the oppression he faced as a half-navajo, half-white student...who looks like every other white kids around). The professor refused to budge claiming he grades all the papers in a sort of bell curve fashion, and that my paper was good, but not as good others (which was not the policy of grading in his syllabus or a policy of the Department). I bit my tongue and left, thinking he would pull the same crap on the final and I would have to make a big stink to the Dean of the History Department.

When the Finals grades were posted and the Semester Grade posted, he gave me A+'s for BOTH! Makes me wonder if he even graded my final, and just gave me an A+ to get me off his back... Only one other person got an A+ in the class, and she was a Navajo girl that a few of us in class think was sleeping with the Professor. The grade I got on the paper made it statistically impossible for me to get an A+ in his class, which I got anyway...

Cliffs:
- Wrote paper for class (40% of grade)
- Prof. gave crappy grade without reading paper.
- Complained to Prof. to no avail, I feared having to appeal to Dean of Dept.
- Give me 1 of only 2 A+'s he gave out that semester.
- Post to ATOT 6 years later about it.
- ?????
- Profit

I read it. Pics of the Navajo girl?

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: shuttleboi
Something tells me that you (the OP) are never going to get anywhere in life.

I have to side with the TA. It's probably because I was one when I was a Ph.D. student having to deal with whiny little brats like you (the OP). It's amazing how much crap we had to put up with. And I doubt you would ever understand, since it's unlikely you'll ever get into grad school, but believe me, it's hard for us to put up with people like you.

Good job you unethical cretin. You do realize the issue at hand is not the OP butting heads with the TA but rather the TA willfully misrepresenting his grades to make a point.

I hope you get in a car crash and your dashboard crumples onto your stomach and the blood flow to your legs gets cut off. As your legs turn blue, you angrily realize that once you're pulled away from the crash, you will die due to your injuries. Your family is called to come make their peace but as they approach your outstretched arms, you fall asleep never to wake again. You don't get a chance to say goodbye and your 12 year old daughter has to go through life without the protective father to shield her from troublesome boys. Furthermore, your ex-wife has turned to alcohol to soften to pain of your death where she becomes an alcoholic who befriends "Tom," the 32 year old construction worker who moonlights as a meth dealer. Together they piss both of their incomes away on meth-lab related supplies and one day their profitable lab blows up and kills all residents inside your house.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: shuttleboi
Something tells me that you (the OP) are never going to get anywhere in life.

I have to side with the TA. It's probably because I was one when I was a Ph.D. student having to deal with whiny little brats like you (the OP). It's amazing how much crap we had to put up with. And I doubt you would ever understand, since it's unlikely you'll ever get into grad school, but believe me, it's hard for us to put up with people like you.

Good job you unethical cretin. You do realize the issue at hand is not the OP butting heads with the TA but rather the TA willfully misrepresenting his grades to make a point.

I hope you get in a car crash and your dashboard crumples onto your stomach and the blood flow to your legs gets cut off. As your legs turn blue, you angrily realize that once you're pulled away from the crash, you will die due to your injuries. Your family is called to come make their peace but as they approach your outstretched arms, you fall asleep never to wake again. You don't get a chance to say goodbye and your 12 year old daughter has to go through life without the protective father to shield her from troublesome boys. Furthermore, your ex-wife has turned to alcohol to soften to pain of your death where she becomes an alcoholic who befriends "Tom," the 32 year old construction worker who moonlights as a meth dealer. Together they piss both of their incomes away on meth-lab related supplies and one day their profitable lab blows up and kills all residents inside your house.

Ahahahahahaha, fantastic! Can I steal that from you?

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: shuttleboi
Something tells me that you (the OP) are never going to get anywhere in life.

I have to side with the TA. It's probably because I was one when I was a Ph.D. student having to deal with whiny little brats like you (the OP). It's amazing how much crap we had to put up with. And I doubt you would ever understand, since it's unlikely you'll ever get into grad school, but believe me, it's hard for us to put up with people like you.

Good job you unethical cretin. You do realize the issue at hand is not the OP butting heads with the TA but rather the TA willfully misrepresenting his grades to make a point.

I hope you get in a car crash and your dashboard crumples onto your stomach and the blood flow to your legs gets cut off. As your legs turn blue, you angrily realize that once you're pulled away from the crash, you will die due to your injuries. Your family is called to come make their peace but as they approach your outstretched arms, you fall asleep never to wake again. You don't get a chance to say goodbye and your 12 year old daughter has to go through life without the protective father to shield her from troublesome boys. Furthermore, your ex-wife has turned to alcohol to soften to pain of your death where she becomes an alcoholic who befriends "Tom," the 32 year old construction worker who moonlights as a meth dealer. Together they piss both of their incomes away on meth-lab related supplies and one day their profitable lab blows up and kills all residents inside your house.

oh crap!


sig material. legendary!

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: uhohs

Originally posted by: chambersc

Originally posted by: shuttleboi
Something tells me that you (the OP) are never going to get anywhere in life.

I have to side with the TA. It's probably because I was one when I was a Ph.D. student having to deal with whiny little brats like you (the OP). It's amazing how much crap we had to put up with. And I doubt you would ever understand, since it's unlikely you'll ever get into grad school, but believe me, it's hard for us to put up with people like you.

Good job you unethical cretin. You do realize the issue at hand is not the OP butting heads with the TA but rather the TA willfully misrepresenting his grades to make a point.

I hope you get in a car crash and your dashboard crumples onto your stomach and the blood flow to your legs gets cut off. As your legs turn blue, you angrily realize that once you're pulled away from the crash, you will die due to your injuries. Your family is called to come make their peace but as they approach your outstretched arms, you fall asleep never to wake again. You don't get a chance to say goodbye and your 12 year old daughter has to go through life without the protective father to shield her from troublesome boys. Furthermore, your ex-wife has turned to alcohol to soften to pain of your death where she becomes an alcoholic who befriends "Tom," the 32 year old construction worker who moonlights as a meth dealer. Together they piss both of their incomes away on meth-lab related supplies and one day their profitable lab blows up and kills all residents inside your house.

oh crap!


sig material. legendary!

:thumbsup:

 

[Kanalua]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Kanalua

I read it. Pics of the Navajo girl?

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[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: JS80
nice. i got many B-s in general education classes (I was an econ major) where politics were involved...don't worry man, those type of people will never amount to anything and die in debt.

This is also why i take with a grain of salt high GPAs of people whom i interview. It usually means they are good at regurgitating Professor/TA opinions (which in most cases are extremely left wing).

I had extremely high GPAs in both my degrees and even graduated first in my class. You are right about regurgitating the profs BS.....but that doesn't mean you are always a lefty loon. I am extremely conservative sans the religious BS. I understood very early that school is nothing but marketing. You have to determine who your customer is, and in college that is the prof/TA. Tell them what they want to hear and you get a good grade. I think that means I got much more out of college than the high GPA tells too.....just not what you think it means. I can read people and size them up rather quickly so I can figure out their weaknesses and how to defeat them in necessary. You defeat a liberal professor by scoring the highest grade in their class all the while not buying into their BS biased crap. I always made sure they knew too, as soon as my grades were in the record book.