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Things that nobody tells you about uni life are that at some point, you grow tired of living off instant noodle pots, and that as soon as you become actual roommates with your BFF, all you liked about them turns into everything you hate. And this is just the beginning.
In classes, you meet fellow students, your crush, and the professors. That’s where it gets tricky, ‘cause some of ‘em truly inspire, support, and show you the side of knowledge that may change your life. But some are just so mean they verge on being evil, according to this Twitter thread.
The thread was started by Chris, a senior class president UNC-Chapel Hill, who took it to social media to share how his professor asked for proof of his grandmother’s death in order to excuse his absence from class. “Empathy goes a long way and some folks just don’t have it,” Chris said in a post amassing 194.1K likes.
His story resonated with many more students who shared their own experiences of dealing with questionable, and sometimes plain mean, behavior from professors. Let’s see what they shared right below.
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Bored Panda reached out to Twitter user Charlsie, @charlsiekate, who shared an incident with a professor she had in her freshman year of college. “I missed the class twice the entire semester, once because my grandfather died. I got a C in the class because the teacher said it was her policy to drop people a letter grade for each absence regardless of the reason,” Charlsie tweeted in the thread.
It turns out, Charlsie didn’t understand that missing the class was such a big deal until the semester was over. “It was an honors class with nine people in it and we actually never got any grades during the semester. The class was Western Civ before 1500 and we did a lot of ancient geography research projects and wrote papers, and the final was a big paper that we turned in the last day of class.”
However, according to the former student, the class “never received any of our class work back and graded until the final day, and then it was only a couple of things. The professor throughout the semester claimed she could not grade things in a timely manner because of vertigo.”
Then the class finally received the grades, Charlsie got a C. “I was able to contest the grade through the honors program and the professor’s response was that I missed two classes and she dropped people a letter grade for every missed class. As a side note, no one in the class got an A, everyone else got a B, in a class where she had not graded any of our classroom.”
Charlsie did what she felt she had to and provided all the info, “because I definitely brought her the obit for my grandfather earlier in the semester—showing that I had to miss one class to attend my grandfather’s funeral in a town five hours away.”
The dean of the Honors program stepped in to tell the teacher that she had to change Charlsie’s grade. Since that, the only interaction Charlsie had with the teacher was during a meeting on changing her grade. “She told me I absolutely did not deserve the grade change and that she was only changing it because she was being forced to do so, not because I earned it,” the former student recounted.
When it comes to professors' mean behavior, Charlsie believes that there’s some overall confusion that “that professors are supposed to be your friend or your mentor, but they aren’t your friend, and a lot of them see themselves more as your boss, as the gatekeeper.”
In addition, she said she had the feeling that this particular professor didn’t want to be at that state university, and “she hated the football team and the Greek life and the focus on sports and the nightlife.” Having said that, Charlsie doesn’t think that being a professor is “the cushy job it once was, and a lot of professors end up places they never imagined or wanted to be, and they take it out on their students.”
The former student also stressed out that the incident happened a long time ago and it was the worst professor experience she had in college. “Most of my professors were wonderful,” Charlsie said, remembering her freshman year.
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Micheal With A B 5 years ago
So, I am chronically ill. I've spent about 80% of my life in the hospital. I have gastroparesis, and was in the hospital about a month ago. I still had Zoom classes and I had emailed my teacher at the beginning of the year that I am chronically ill, I vomit a lot, and I can't turn my camera on this year. She was cool with it, until I was in the hospital. I had told her about my situation. I got onto class and she got all pissy about my not turning my camera on. I again, reminded her. And she persisted. In frustration, I turn my camera on, ans she sees me: Oily hair, NG tube, multiple IVs, rail thin, puking my guts out. She then politely said I could turn my camera off. I hate teachers and I can't wait to be out of school.
Thea Gegenberg 5 years ago
It's funny my dad is a prof and he did the opposite of these stories. He'd joke in private about the amount of grandmas that died during midterms but he'd always let the students reschedule, no questions asked.
howdylee 5 years ago
Senior year of undergrad, my grandma passed away unexpectedly, the Saturday morning as Sprink Break started. She lived in Florida, the funeral was in Florida... if it wasn't for the funeral, it would have been great spending spring break in Florida. Except I couldn't get a flight home until the Tuesday after classes resumed. I thought I'd have to show proof etc, but not one single professor hassled me about it, they all offered their sympathies and didn't have a problem with missing a couple days.
Micheal With A B 5 years ago
So, I am chronically ill. I've spent about 80% of my life in the hospital. I have gastroparesis, and was in the hospital about a month ago. I still had Zoom classes and I had emailed my teacher at the beginning of the year that I am chronically ill, I vomit a lot, and I can't turn my camera on this year. She was cool with it, until I was in the hospital. I had told her about my situation. I got onto class and she got all pissy about my not turning my camera on. I again, reminded her. And she persisted. In frustration, I turn my camera on, ans she sees me: Oily hair, NG tube, multiple IVs, rail thin, puking my guts out. She then politely said I could turn my camera off. I hate teachers and I can't wait to be out of school.
Thea Gegenberg 5 years ago
It's funny my dad is a prof and he did the opposite of these stories. He'd joke in private about the amount of grandmas that died during midterms but he'd always let the students reschedule, no questions asked.
howdylee 5 years ago
Senior year of undergrad, my grandma passed away unexpectedly, the Saturday morning as Sprink Break started. She lived in Florida, the funeral was in Florida... if it wasn't for the funeral, it would have been great spending spring break in Florida. Except I couldn't get a flight home until the Tuesday after classes resumed. I thought I'd have to show proof etc, but not one single professor hassled me about it, they all offered their sympathies and didn't have a problem with missing a couple days.
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