I'm just curious if teachers listen to themself's speak, and if they do, if they even remember what they say.

 

I emailed something to my professor yesterday with the corrections that we had talked about 2 days before. He emails me back telling me that what I did was totally wrong. Needless to say he got an email replied back to him asking how exactly it was wrong since he didn't really give any reasoning behind his bullshit response.

 

GAH I need to graduate like yesterday, so tired of blanket statements from professors these days.

I'm just curious if teachers listen to themself's speak, and if they do, if they even remember what they say.

 

I emailed something to my professor yesterday with the corrections that we had talked about 2 days before. He emails me back telling me that what I did was totally wrong. Needless to say he got an email replied back to him asking how exactly it was wrong since he didn't really give any reasoning behind his bs response.

 

GAH I need to graduate like yesterday, so tired of blanket statements from professors these days.

 

Theres only one set of folks that are worse....

I'm just curious if teachers listen to themself's speak, and if they do, if they even remember what they say.

 

I emailed something to my professor yesterday with the corrections that we had talked about 2 days before. He emails me back telling me that what I did was totally wrong. Needless to say he got an email replied back to him asking how exactly it was wrong since he didn't really give any reasoning behind his bs response.

 

GAH I need to graduate like yesterday, so tired of blanket statements from professors these days.

 

OK Matt - after this, I'm done with you, you're helpless: THEMSELVES not THEMSELF'S, REPLY not REPLIED, :angry-cussingblack: not GAH

I always CC myself whenever I email a professor. I have never had to actually correct an instructor, but I figure I could cover some of my bases. CC'ing myself is an old habit from when I had to juggle emails between the four accounts the government assigned me.

 

As for graduating, I hear you. I do not feel so bad considering most of the people my age who graduated a couple years ago are still looking for a stable job in the market. However, I regret not having pursued more classes when I was still in uniform (not that I had the time). But I figure a year and a half from now, I'll have my BA along with in-depth work related experience, as well as an active clearance (depending on how quickly I can finish school).

Dan my grammar is not going to improve over night. Sorry buddy!

 

And this is a constant problem that I have at this school. The way teacher's thing around here makes no sense. There is no longer a sense that form shall follow function, its more a sense of if you can take something that can be explained easily and make it so convoluted that it makes no sense, then that is a good project.

 

Just tuck my head down and run forward for the next 3 years and never look back.

 

It's funny when you get a professor first semester and then you get her again 4th semester and she says, ya know, you were a far better designer your first semester here than you are now. And my own response to that was, that's what happenes when people try to push ideas on you, when they have no idea what they are talking about.

 

The education system is in a sad state of affairs.

Matt, don't take this the wrong way but, is this an actual college you are attending or one of those "trade schools"? Obviously, the requirements and credentials are vastly different between the two. How many students do you think a college professor has to keep track of each semester?

 

And since you asked the question, I was a teacher for 35 years and I always knew exactly what I was saying.

Matt, don't take this the wrong way but, is this an actual college you are attending or one of those "trade schools"? Obviously, the requirements and credentials are vastly different between the two. How many students do you think a college professor has to keep track of each semester?

 

And since you asked the question, I was a teacher for 35 years and I always knew exactly what I was saying.

 

No this is a college no trade school. I got to njit and we have a class of 14 kids. I would think keeping track of what you say to each shouldn't be too hard considering people with 35 kids can manage it. I got to NJIT and their level of teaching has gone down the whole in the last 10-15 years. Everyone I work with at my firm has gone to this school and it just keeps getting worse and worse from what I see now as teaching to what it was a few years ago.

 

The problem is, NJIT doesn't pay their teachers a lot, so we end up with these people from NYC who clearly can't design for crap, and thats why they are barely able to pay their bills so when they see a job opening across the river they go oh look we can do almost nothing and get paid for it. It's really a sad state of affairs i tell ya

I thought NJIT was a good school.

I failed out of NJIT......

 

My Dad was sooooo proud :?

I failed out of NJIT......

 

My Dad was sooooo proud :?

 

At least you didn't flunk out of Devry. We bin Devry resumes immediately. They have a sales force bigger than our company and we're a marketing company! hehe.

I failed out of NJIT......

 

Not the only one. Just kept at it...

 

From what Matt has described in private conversation, the Architorture program has disintegrated in the last several years. The engineering programs are still among the best value for your dollar.

Well..... it was 1983 when I went. It was also my own fault. Spent more time in the gym then in the classrooms.....

My brother graduated from NJIT with a degree in Chemical Engineering (quite a while ago as he was my older brother) and has done very well. Do not know anything about the Architecture program. Rutgers professors often have hundreds of students in a class, then their TAs deal with smaller groups. I was thinking maybe you were going there. I typically had 100-150 high school students a semester and I had no problem keeping track of what I had said to any one of them.

 

Sorry to hear they do not have high standards in your department.

Well in my fit of rage last night I sent out a lovely email to him and I think he actually sorta felt bad and sorta apologized today about how he might of told me to do something when really he wanted me to do something else. So today was at least productive in one aspect but totally useless in another. He wastes too much time talking and not enough doing, but that's another topic that Dan and myself have had about the direction this school is taking.

 

 

So sometimes I find it helpful to flip out on teachers to let them know that your crazy and then their like ohh ok, maybe i should talk to this person yayyy

you have to do something to stand apart from the crowd. Somehow, I don't think this is a problem for you.

you have to do something to stand apart from the crowd. Somehow, I don't think this is a problem for you.

 

no sir, I don't have a problem. Between me being loud and obnoxious, and the fact that for the most part I can answer any given question he poses to the class on a given day, kinda make me stand out.

I failed out of NJIT......

 

My Dad was sooooo proud :?

 

I was asked to leave NJIT before even I applied. apparently it's not cool for a guest to embarrass a CS teacher

Transfer to Rutgers :mrgreen:

for what it's worth I always tell students, at any level, get along with your teacher. Why ??? I was advised a long time ago (by a teacher) that as much as 40-50 percent of ones grade stems from getting 'along' with the teacher.

Is that right. Of course not. But that's the game. Why not play it.

If you want to sound off wait until the course if over, and make sure you don't get that teacher again.