Felonies!

[Guest]

When will someone like King909 or Cheesey come to this thread with one of their great "you care soooo much about (insert poster here)" zingers

Hey, fuck you.

 

 

I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I do vividly remember 909 making a thread to call out WP. Yes, he CALLED HIM OUT.

 

 

 

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HE CALLED HIM OUT.

I was told to, fucking cunt.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Czech's right on re: the math people. Of the two college-level math classes I took and passed/didn't drop out of, one was taught by a guy who was fairly sympathetic to those who were basically math-retarded and passed you if you at least tried (which was my case); the other, by a guy so hopelessly incompetent and pathetic that you could show up for half of the classes—if that—barely do any work and he'd still pass you as long as you went up to him occasionally and said "hey, I'm trying here." I got a B in that one.

[snuffbox]

I'm sure that I hate WP more than most of you, but you guys care way too much about him.

 

Must've been one of those phantom posts, or something.

[Guest]

I don't see the big deal about WP anymore. Ban him when he comes back, and leave it alone. No reason to talk about it.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I should mention that the latter of the two missed nearly two weeks of classes after he came down with pneuomonia, only to resume "teaching" in a monstrously sick state. He would cough, sputter and sweat his way through thirty minutes of numbers and equations before calling off the class. I'd still butter him up, though, which, really, means I was taking advantage of a guy who may or may not have been terminal. After that semester, I never saw him again.

[Slayer]

Yeah, Czech is dead on. I worked as a math tutor for three years and math teacher for one, and always heard those stories about the math teachers who would say, either subtly or overtly, "omg I can't believe you don't know this shit!"

 

As a guide for my own teaching, I thought about every (legitimate) bad thing I'd ever heard while tutoring and told myself "I sure as hell am not going to do that" and I think I did a pretty good job.

 

BTW, it doesn't get any better as you progress higher up the academic ladder. I capped out at Partial Differential Equations and Complex Analysis before saying "Fuck this" and dropping out of grad school.

[snuffbox]

BUTT-Head taught me all I need to know about numbers & stuff.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

Snuffbox hates on all disciplines.

 

I loved my English department. Met tons of wonderful professors. A few in particular would invite classes over to dinner, have us sometimes have class at their apartments, help us out with anything we needed regarding recommendations, reading drafts of papers, etc. Totally focused on the students, which is exactly how college should be. Almost all my best academic experiences came in that department.

 

The ugly side, and why I've decided not to go for a Ph.D at the moment, is that half the faculty are only really concerned with publications, career advancement, self-promotion, etc., and I can't tolerate that sort of catty, self-involved environment. Of course, that's the case in any academic department in the humanities. I can't speak for science since autoclaves and beakers frighten me.

[vivalaultra]

I can't help but feel that I've missed out by not hanging out more with professors, etc. in the English department. I'm graduating at the end of the year and I've never met with any professor outside of a classroom setting. They all seem nice enough, too...just...haven't gotten around to it. The only English professor I really know on even a semi-personal basis is my boss at the UH Writing Center where I work teaching Developmental English to freshmen/football players. I worry that my unsociability will hurt me in some way.

[Toshiaki Koala]

I was told to, fucking cunt.

 

Ah, I see. I'll make sure I'm fully up-to-date on happenings in the 909 Universe before I make another such comment.