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How bad was this email that I just sent to my professor?

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MagnusTheBrewer said:
Listen up kyrax12, you are assuming you have some sort of personal relationship with your professor. You do not. Your work is the only thing that counts. Just try to keep your irritating behavior to a minimum so as not to force him to go out of his way to give you nasty assignments.
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I will definitely try to do that in the future.

I need to make friends in the class for future references. 😀
 
Platypus said:
You're both in the wrong then. You for not paying attention (which you know already) and him for sending a cunty reply in response to you asking him to do the job you are PAYING him to do.
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At a research university, the professors aren't actually there to teach. They are there to publish. Teaching is a distraction from their real job. Furthermore, often their salaries are 100% paid out of their research grants, so the teaching is essentially uncompensated labor.

Undergraduate tuition is used to pay for the nice buildings and the armies of highly-paid administrative staff that infest college campuses, not the professors.
 
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jagec said:
At a research university, the professors aren't actually there to teach. They are there to publish. Teaching is a distraction from their real job. Furthermore, often their salaries are 100% paid out of their research grants, so the teaching is essentially uncompensated labor.

Undergraduate tuition is used to pay for the nice buildings and the armies of highly-paid administrative staff that infest college campuses, not the professors.
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Also this. Suits, basically. Your tuition is going to suits.
 
nooo come on guys!!

I was sending the email from my phone and I am socially awkward so I didn't know what to type.
 
Platypus said:
You're both in the wrong then. You for not paying attention (which you know already) and him for sending a cunty reply in response to you asking him to do the job you are PAYING him to do.

I don't think he'll lose any sleep over it, the kind of guy who's first response would be to answer your question with another question clearly gives zero fucks about his job anymore. If you were a repeat offender I could understand his response to you.
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The prof did his job. The OP says that the prof explained slowly during the first 15mins of class, and the OP rolled in late. Now the OP needs a private lesson??

If the OP doesn't show up to class on time, then he should try reading the text book instead of having it spoon fed to him by a prof. If he needs spoon feeding, then he needs to show up to class on time.
 
Rumpltzer said:
The prof did his job. The OP says that the prof explained slowly during the first 15mins of class, and the OP rolled in late. Now the OP needs a private lesson??

If the OP doesn't show up to class on time, then he should try reading the text book instead of having it spoon fed to him by a prof. If he needs spoon feeding, then he needs to show up to class on time.
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All I asked the prof. was what page in the textbook the next quiz is based on basically...

I wasn't late by the way.. I attended the full class period.
 
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kyrax12 said:
It was something that he went over slowly in the first 15 minutes of class and I missed it.

I didn't pay attention.
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Sorry, when you said, "I missed it," I thought that you meant that you weren't present. You mean that you weren't paying attention (as you said).

Just read the entire text book. Know the whole thing, and you'll be fine for the quiz.
 
Rumpltzer said:
The prof did his job. The OP says that the prof explained slowly during the first 15mins of class, and the OP rolled in late. Now the OP needs a private lesson??

If the OP doesn't show up to class on time, then he should try reading the text book instead of having it spoon fed to him by a prof. If he needs spoon feeding, then he needs to show up to class on time.
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Thats why I said they're both wrong. If your response as a professional instructor is to answer a question back with another question, you're doing it wrong. If he was a repeat offender I can understand, but if your job is literally to teach and you can't handle repeating yourself more than once you're probably not fit to be a teacher. People are going to ask repetitive questions you've already answered.. thats part of learning. If I had to count how many times I've repeated myself as an instructor in a professional setting it would be immense. The difference is, I'm not going to be a condescending wise and beautiful woman about it.
 
OP, for future reference you're always better off asking a classmate. Professor's aren't fond of, "Hey, I wasn't paying attention...", emails.

Also you can try floating. I hear it's what the cool kids do.
 
pelov said:
OP, for future reference you're always better off asking a classmate. Professor's aren't fond of, "Hey, I wasn't paying attention...", emails.

Also you can try floating. I hear it's what the cool kids do.
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Thanks for the advice. I didn't get any classmate's number so I was in the fog.

I will remember to do that next time.

I was wondering if I should apologize in person in the next class session.. Would that be redundant?


I don't know what floating is...
 
Don't apologize. He's not your friend, he's your professor.

The first thing you should do in any class is find the hottest girl and give her your number. Tell her that it's so if one of you misses class the other can fill them in on what happened. It should also serve a dual purpose in getting rid of that pesky virginity thing, which btw, you should never brag about nor mention ever.

I'll let you figure floating out for yourself.
 
Platypus said:
Thats why I said they're both wrong. If your response as a professional instructor is to answer a question back with another question, you're doing it wrong. If he was a repeat offender I can understand, but if your job is literally to teach and you can't handle repeating yourself more than once you're probably not fit to be a teacher. People are going to ask repetitive questions you've already answered.. thats part of learning. If I had to count how many times I've repeated myself as an instructor in a professional setting it would be immense. The difference is, I'm not going to be a condescending wise and beautiful woman about it.
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I understand what you're saying, but I take issue with having to repeat something at a college level because some tard simply didn't pay attention for a full 15 minutes of the lecture.

College level. High school and lower would be a different story.

It's probably just me. I don't think everyone needs to be going to college. I don't think that all the kids need to be getting a trophy for participation. I think that second place is just another name for the first loser! 😀

I taught the first course in solid-state devices (typically third year undergrad EE) at a top engineering university for a couple of years (the one two hours south of you). When it was rewarding, it was awesome. Most of the time, it was just infuriating.

I'm fairly certain that you'd classify me as one of the "condescending cunts". I'm okay with that.

I'd have responded to the OP in the same manner.

*shrug*
 
Rumpltzer said:
I understand what you're saying, but I take issue with having to repeat something at a college level because some tard simply didn't pay attention for a full 15 minutes of the lecture.

College level. High school and lower would be a different story.

It's probably just me. I don't think everyone needs to be going to college. I don't think that all the kids need to be getting a trophy for participation. I think that second place is just another name for the first loser! 😀

I taught the first course in solid-state devices (typically third year undergrad EE) at a top-five engineering university for a couple of years. When it was rewarding, it was awesome. Most of the time, it was just infuriating.

I'm fairly certain that you'd classify me as one of the "condescending cunts". I'm okay with that.

I'd have responded to the OP in the same manner.

*shrug*
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That's your prerogative and you're free to act however you wish.

To me though, a person who is an instructor who actually cares about what they're doing wouldn't be so quick to write someone off for asking a question he/she had already addressed. In fact, I'd take that opportunity to make sure that person got the proper answer. For every one person in a class who is too afraid to ask a question because of shit like this, a bunch more benefit when the professor goes back over it.

Furthermore, his question was about what page out of his textbook to study. I doubt that the professor spent 15 minutes repeating a page number over and over. He just missed a vital piece of information early on because he was being stupid and not paying attention... something that obviously snowballed.

I suppose I am assuming a lot here based on what the OP has said. I don't know what kind of student he is. All of this goes out the window if the student in question has a habit of not paying attention. I don't help people who don't want to help themselves either nor do I think anyone like that should get a 'trophy' or passing grade as it were. But what kind of standard are you setting for learning in your classroom if you get replies like that back? All that does is teach people to not ask any questions... which is VITAL in my opinion to learning. Maybe that's what this prof is after. The god complex some people in academia have can get tedious to endure pretty quickly.
 
professor was kind of a dick with the first response, if you ask me.

I do agree with what Rumpltzer is saying, as well--but the thing here is that OP actually followed up after class and sought clarification. School just started, I assume, so it really isn't enough time to establish himself as that "lazy pest" that exists in most every class.

Hell, these days, prof should be happy that a student is seeking clarification, instead of waiting until they fuck up in an obvious way but blame the prof for not preparing them properly.
 
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