College Kiwis - Stories about college, college experiences, and venting

[scared sheep]

I’m currently in a psych class that I’m loving. The teacher is so human, and is nice to the mentally ill. He’s actually into researching and testing. He’s clearly knowledgeable and non judgmental (good for psych classes bc 99% of psych students are mentally ill) and I’m loving it. So share your stories! Good or bad!

 

[Dirt McGirt]

Last quarter I finally finished my last Stats class and I don't have to worry about math too much anymore and I'm pretty happy about that.

 

[ICametoLurk]

lol enjoy ur lifelong debt

 

[Kari Kamiya]

In my first year of college, I took a Photoshop class that I really enjoyed. My instructor was a pretty cool guy who knew his shit and showed some neat shortcuts I still use to this day, and was definitely one of the most influential, if not inspiring instructors I had those four years. He made quite the impression on the first day during introductions, for he told about his near-death experience from a freak motorcycle accident and that he almost didn't live to see his firstborn, and it's why he's so passionate about life and he worked closely with us as he had hopes for his students to get to their dream jobs.

As it turned out, though, he had forged his paperwork to get the job and so he was gone the following year. It still makes me laugh to this day how someone who wasn't qualified for a teaching job was pretty boss at what he was teaching, and I sometimes wonder what happened to him.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

Time to feel like an old man.

Back when I was still in college in 2003... I had this cultural anthropology class taught by a professor that was straight outta Africa ( I forget the country). I thought to myself "sweet I'll get some real world perspective instead of textbook parroted bullshit!". But then I noticed all the text books for the classwere written by the professor, all the course materials revolved around her life, and every lecture was "let me tell you all about me and the things I have done while being me". I walked out of that class after a week and got my tuition back ( sans some fees) a put in a formal complaint. I didn't sign up to learn about one woman's life experience in the middle of nowhere and pay her to have a big personal cirlcejerk, I came to learn about the world.

On the flip side that same year I had the best psych professor ever. He said something that has stuck with me ever since "From the womb to the grave, one thing that remains constant is that we are always learning. and that is one thing that will never change". dude was amazing and totally earned his tenure.

 

[Wallace]

No exaggeration, this was five years of my life:

 

[Dirt McGirt]

No exaggeration, this was five years of my life:

Sounds about right for me too.

 

[scared sheep]

Update: actual sentence from professor “I used to run around with a voodoo priestess. Her advice for break ups was to print out a photo of your ex and eat it. The next day, you’ll shit them out of your lives.”

Brilliant.

In my first year of college, I took a Photoshop class that I really enjoyed. My instructor was a pretty cool guy who knew his shit and showed some neat shortcuts I still use to this day, and was definitely one of the most influential, if not inspiring instructors I had those four years. He made quite the impression on the first day during introductions, for he told about his near-death experience from a freak motorcycle accident and that he almost didn't live to see his firstborn, and it's why he's so passionate about life and he worked closely with us as he had hopes for his students to get to their dream jobs.

As it turned out, though, he had forged his paperwork to get the job and so he was gone the following year. It still makes me laugh to this day how someone who wasn't qualified for a teaching job was pretty boss at what he was teaching, and I sometimes wonder what happened to him.

Skilled teaching ability really is a gift that no degree can give you.

lol enjoy ur lifelong debt

Community college, git fucked.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I walked out of that class after a week and got my tuition back ( sans some fees) a put in a formal complaint. I didn't sign up to learn about one woman's life experience in the middle of nowhere and pay her to have a big personal cirlcejerk, I came to learn about the world.

That reminds me that the culture and ethnics (or whatever the fuck it's called) teacher at the college had gotten in some huge trouble about her shaming white people during lectures because so many students complained about it (and it's the reason I chose to take the class online 'cause I didn't want to put up with that bullshit). She didn't get fired as far as I knew, but she was under supervision basically the rest of the time the school was open.

Yeah, school closed down a couple of years after I graduated. I was finishing up the associate's part of my degree when we got the news they were graduating us out. Was pretty bummed about it at the time especially since they had recently built a really cool recording studio for audio students, but not so much anymore. Am still more bummed that the teachers I had (with exception of a few) were pretty much actual professionals in their line of work, so we got great hands-on learning experiences from it and so I wonder where they migrated to after that.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

Community college,

No shame in that. Some of the best classes I had were at the LVCC here.

That reminds me that the culture and ethnics (or whatever the fuck it's called) teacher at the college had gotten in some huge trouble about her shaming white people during lectures because so many students complained about it (and it's the reason I chose to take the class online 'cause I didn't want to put up with that bullshit). She didn't get fired as far as I knew, but she was under supervision basically the rest of the time the school was open.

That's the problem with tenures. Sometimes it goes to the professors head and they think they can say or do whatever they want because fuck you that's why.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

Slavoj Zizek was a visiting professor at my college for a semester and he was required to have office hours so he'd fill the sign in sheet with fake names and do coke in his office instead.

 

[Dirt McGirt]

I have a pretty good story on a campus wide social justice chimpout that happened my first year. It wasn't reported on much outside local media, but it would be a dead giveaway powerlevel and might lead back to me so I can't really tell it.

If this thread is still alive and I'm still around here June next year I can probably tell it if anyone cares.

 

[scared sheep]

Time to feel like an old man.

Back when I was still in college in 2003... I had this cultural anthropology class taught by a professor that was straight outta Africa ( I forget the country). I thought to myself "sweet I'll get some real world perspective instead of textbook parroted bullshit!". But then I noticed all the text books for the classwere written by the professor, all the course materials revolved around her life, and every lecture was "let me tell you all about me and the things I have done while being me". I walked out of that class after a week and got my tuition back ( sans some fees) a put in a formal complaint. I didn't sign up to learn about one woman's life experience in the middle of nowhere and pay her to have a big personal cirlcejerk, I came to learn about the world.

On the flip side that same year I had the best psych professor ever. He said something that has stuck with me ever since "From the womb to the grave, one thing that remains constant is that we are always learning. and that is one thing that will never change". dude was amazing and totally earned his tenure.

Ugh, scummy teachers are the worst.

That reminds me that the culture and ethnics (or whatever the fuck it's called) teacher at the college had gotten in some huge trouble about her shaming white people during lectures because so many students complained about it (and it's the reason I chose to take the class online 'cause I didn't want to put up with that bullshit). She didn't get fired as far as I knew, but she was under supervision basically the rest of the time the school was open.

Yeah, school closed down a couple of years after I graduated. I was finishing up the associate's part of my degree when we got the news they were graduating us out. Was pretty bummed about it at the time especially since they had recently built a really cool recording studio for audio students, but not so much anymore. Am still more bummed that the teachers I had (with exception of a few) were pretty much actual professionals in their line of work, so we got great hands-on learning experiences from it and so I wonder where they migrated to after that.

T-that actually happens? Shit, I’m sorry.

Slavoj Zizek was a visiting professor at my college for a semester and he was required to have office hours so he'd fill the sign in sheet with fake names and do coke in his office instead.

Lolwut

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

Lolwut

Don't be a pussy and tag @lolwut

 

[Kari Kamiya]

T-that actually happens? Shit, I’m sorry.

It was a for-profit school (I was a dumb kid who jumped into college immediately after high school, so I deserved it), they were all having financial troubles, so eh. I'm more sorry for the instructors, honestly.

Also fuck FAFSA. That added some unneeded stress and an emotional/anxiety breakdown I never want to feel ever again. At least my student loans wasn't as large of a bill as my other classmates, probably because I bought nearly all of my textbooks (mostly used) off of Amazon, but I'm otherwise not sure why it is my bill was less.

 

[JB 236]

Went to College in the UK in like 2012

Had a teacher who would just spend his time at college getting fucking bladdered. Whilst chatting shit and showing youtube videos.
Had a teacher who heard voices in her head and always cried due to the most stupid shit.
Had a teacher who got kicked out for calling a student a nigger supposedly
Literally passed my Course because the Teacher just used some picture on the internet as my final presentation piece.

It was pretty fun tbqh. I did not learn a fucking thing though and it was a time waste.

 

[lolwut]

Don't be a pussy and tag @lolwut

I did do a lot of coke on the college dime that semester.

 

[scared sheep]

It was a for-profit school (I was a dumb kid who jumped into college immediately after high school, so I deserved it), they were all having financial troubles, so eh. I'm more sorry for the instructors, honestly.

Also fuck FAFSA. That added some unneeded stress and an emotional/anxiety breakdown I never want to feel ever again. At least my student loans wasn't as large of a bill as my other classmates, probably because I bought nearly all of my textbooks (mostly used) off of Amazon, but I'm otherwise not sure why it is my bill was less.

Fasfa is completely randomized as tp who gets it.

Went to College in the UK in like 2012

Had a teacher who would just spend his time at college getting fucking bladdered. Whilst chatting shit and showing youtube videos.
Had a teacher who heard voices in her head and always cried due to the most stupid shit.
Had a teacher who got kicked out for calling a student a nigger supposedly
Literally passed my Course because the Teacher just used some picture on the internet as my final presentation piece.

It was pretty fun tbqh. I did not learn a fucking thing though and it was a time waste.

What the fuck?

I did do a lot of coke on the college dime that semester.

I don’t know you but cool.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

I did my teaching internship at an inner city school and the kids kept asking me if I was banging my mentor

I once called a professor a mother fucker and challenged him to a fight in class because he was being a dick to me for no reason. I got a B+ as my final grade.

 

[lecher]

First year CS class, professor is whip smart but weary, explains the hierarchy of formal grammars. Draws a pyramid on the board and says: "So here at the bottom you have the simple grammars, for languages like regular expressions. At the top you have grammars for Turing-complete languages, like general purpose programming languages. Now here's the thing. The languages at the bottom give you easy computation but don't allow you to express anything interesting, while the languages at the top allow you to express all kinds of wonderful things, but your programs become undecidable. This is the law of conservation of misery."