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How do I politely tell someone to go ask the professor?

Chaotic42

Chaotic42

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There's a person in my Chem Lab class who keeps asking me questions. He's planning on taking organic chem next year, and he's having trouble with the super-basics of chemistry.

He didn't know that if you have 10g of a substance and it decomposes into 5g of oxygen that you will have 5g of something else after the decomposition. He can't convert grams to moles or balance equations.

So he keeps bugging me to help him. I say help, he wants the answers. Even to things that we don't have to turn in. I keep telling him "Go ask the teacher. If you don't understand this stuff, you're screwed for the rest of your college career." He won't listen.

What should I do?
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
There's a person in my Chem Lab class who keeps asking me questions. He's planning on taking organic chem next year, and he's having trouble with the super-basics of chemistry.

He didn't know that if you have 10g of a substance and it decomposes into 5g of oxygen that you will have 5g of something else after the decomposition. He can't convert grams to moles or balance equations.

So he keeps bugging me to help him. I say help, he wants the answers. Even to things that we don't have to turn in. I keep telling him "Go ask the teacher. If you don't understand this stuff, you're screwed for the rest of your college career." He won't listen.

What should I do?
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tell him your not gay

seriously though, just tell the person your not comfortable being a tutor of any sort, and that the professor has the answers he needs
 
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He should get the point eventually. He comes to you because you help him.
 
The best way to recite this would be when he is asking you something while the professor is talking. Jump up and repeat this as follows:



"Look dude. I have fvking helped you out enough and you still ask me the same fcking questions. WTF is wrong with you? Are you some idiotic prick type person that expects some poor fvk like me to feel guilty for yourry ass? I'll admit I felt sorry for you at first you little bitch when you truely sounded like you needed some help, but asking for answers and doing everything but forcing me to cheat out of guilt is unacceptable. Either readd your fvking book and shut the fvk up or wear face protection for next class. GOT IT You pnk ass bitch?"

😀

I have been forced to do the same on various ocassions..damn lazy ass punks...



 
Tell him to go ask the professor, you'd like to do your own work rather than his. He will get quiet. Then, when he asks you what you got for anything, answer seventeen. I did both of these for a while and it works great. You kind of have to end up estranging people, but its better than having them bug you. Just being mean to them also works. Spray your squirt bottle onto their backpack and leave trash on their work area.

If you're somewhat competent in lab, you'll have leeches like him all over you for the next three years. You just gotta not help them out or you'll be their bitch forever. I've also found that pretending you've got no idea what's going on works well, too, and saves you the time of helping them. When they ask a stupid question, just reply that you don't know or pretend you aren't there yet, even if they're an hour behind you and they can see it. You'll just confuse them more. That's what you want, though, because if they are confused they might shut up and quit bothering you, and maybe use the TA whose job is actually to assist them.

Lab is a complete joke in college up to the last years. People who have no business working with anything dangerous are always doing so. I had this one kid across from me always asking me questions, ruining equipment and messing up the little apparatuses we had to make. He had a leak in this vent piping and it was venting sulfur gas and hydrochloric acid onto my lab bench one time. I was coughing all night.

Anyway, your best bet is to deter them from asking you for help and make them feel stupid so maybe they will drop the class or fail so you don't have to see them anymore. If they're smart enough to find answers in your text book or have the professor do their work for them, they can pass just about any lab class.
 
Originally posted by: rezinn
Tell him to go ask the professor, you'd like to do your own work rather than his. He will get quiet. Then, when he asks you what you got for anything, answer seventeen. I did both of these for a while and it works great. You kind of have to end up estranging people, but its better than having them bug you. Just being mean to them also works. Spray your squirt bottle onto their backpack and leave trash on their work area.

If you're somewhat competent in lab, you'll have leeches like him all over you for the next three years. You just gotta not help them out or you'll be their bitch forever. I've also found that pretending you've got no idea what's going on works well, too, and saves you the time of helping them. When they ask a stupid question, just reply that you don't know or pretend you aren't there yet, even if they're an hour behind you and they can see it. You'll just confuse them more. That's what you want, though, because if they are confused they might shut up and quit bothering you, and maybe use the TA whose job is actually to assist them.

Lab is a complete joke in college up to the last years. People who have no business working with anything dangerous are always doing so. I had this one kid across from me always asking me questions, ruining equipment and messing up the little apparatuses we had to make. He had a leak in this vent piping and it was venting sulfur gas and hydrochloric acid onto my lab bench one time. I was coughing all night.

Anyway, your best bet is to deter them from asking you for help and make them feel stupid so maybe they will drop the class or fail so you don't have to see them anymore. If they're smart enough to find answers in your text book or have the professor do their work for them, they can pass just about any lab class.
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Hah, you've pretty much verified my suspicions about that class. I'll only be in it until the end of next semester. They offer organic, but I don't have the room in my schedule for that.

I don't mind helping people with some stuff, but this dude has no freaking concept of what's going on. I've got a feeling that I'm about to get the same treatment in Calc class. It's already kind of starting. 😉

 
don't give him he answers, and keep telling him to go see the prof. he will think u are dick, but he wil thank you later

Dogg
 
stare at him blankly and point to the professor.

If someone is really bugging me w/ mundane questions, I generally say "i don't know, ask the TA" Good thing I've never had any real problems with labs i've taken.
 
Dude, you didn't have to post this on the forum, I'm not that bad. Sheesh.


(I took chemlab last semester and my TA didn't speak anything but unintelligable garbled chinenglish. It might be too late, but convincing your students you can't even explain it to them in a way they willl understand even if you wanted to... might save you some trouble)

you nee' 2 mow of subsanse to mix for goo reacsaun.

I think that UF recruits TA's at the Immigrations office sometimes...
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
The best way to recite this would be when he is asking you something while the professor is talking. Jump up and repeat this as follows:



"Look dude. I have fvking helped you out enough and you still ask me the same fcking questions. WTF is wrong with you? Are you some idiotic prick type person that expects some poor fvk like me to feel guilty for yourry ass? I'll admit I felt sorry for you at first you little bitch when you truely sounded like you needed some help, but asking for answers and doing everything but forcing me to cheat out of guilt is unacceptable. Either readd your fvking book and shut the fvk up or wear face protection for next class. GOT IT You pnk ass bitch?"

😀

I have been forced to do the same on various ocassions..damn lazy ass punks...
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LMFAO

- M4H
 
Tell him the only way you'll help him is if he comes to class with 'Chaotic42 0wns me" written on his forehead the next time you have class.

Then if he does it, take a picture, post it on here, and give him wrong answers.
 
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