Today, I asked my college chemistry teacher for some much-needed help. Instead of explaining anything to me, she scoffed that if I don't understand something, I should "just Google it." FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my professor asked me a question in class. Thinking it was a rhetorical question, I shrugged and said, "Google it." It wasn't. He stared at me in silence for the longest 10 seconds of my life. FML
Today, I was helping my kid with homework after work. I tried to Google “third grade long division explained simply.” Autocomplete filled in “because I don’t understand it either,” which I read out loud without thinking. My kid stared at me and said, “So… who’s teaching who?” FML
Today, my university professor admitted to sometimes just winging it when she's teaching. "Yeah," she said, "sometimes I just don't get this stuff either." No wonder I'm failing. FML
Today, I worked up the courage to ask a question in a packed lecture hall. The professor repeated my question, except he'd misheard me and rephrased it into something wildly incorrect. The class laughed. Instead of correcting him, I nodded. Now half the class thinks I don’t understand the difference between correlation and causation. FML
Today, I learned, 90 horrifying minutes into a college exam, that my 85-year-old calculus teacher had spent the last three weeks teaching us the wrong chapter. FML
Today, we were taking a bio quiz and I understood the subject, so the people sitting behind me asked me to help them out. Being a kind fellow classmate, I did. When the teacher got suspicious, she asked the class, "How are all of you getting the same answers?" everyone pointed directly at me. FML
Today, I was walking with my very attractive friend who I like a lot. She then told me that her roomate wouldn't be home tonight, and if I wanted, I could come over and study history. I didn't get it. I told her no thanks, that I was covered, and it was chem I needed to study. An hour later, I understood. FML
Today, after I took my first set of exams, my professor posted on Twitter, scoffing at how stupid one student's answer was. The answer he quoted was one that I wrote. FML
Today, I had a science test. A question asked, "What is the first stage of photosynthesis?" I didn't know, so just trying to be light-hearted, I wrote, "The plant must first believe in itself." My teacher didn't think it was funny, and gave me detention for insulting her intelligence. FML
Today, I was trying to finish an English assignment and I was not sure how to complete it, so I emailed my teacher to ask her for help. She told me to… flip over the assignment handout page for instructions. FML
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TupniTuptuo 29
If everyone Googled everything, no one would need to pay your teacher's salary.
jDCrackpot 7
If you're in college you're paying to be taught, not paying to google everything instead. Go above her and make a complaint and see if she still doesn't feel like doing her job.
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Comments (90)
lilmisslivid 0
The education system at its finest. Your professor sucks ,should've told them to google how to be a good educator. Fyl
PennyLane27 32
I had a calculus instructor (GTA) that literally said the same thing every time someone would ask him a question. He was terrible. When he was evaluated by one of the professors, she told said she wanted to take the chalk out of his hand and do it herself b/c all the crap he was writing on the board was wrong.
pregnantpianist 2
Sounds like my prof for harmony. She constantly offered to help us in the campus cafe and then she'd basically send us away and tell us to use google when we went to her for help. >_
softpaws 17
Thats what my chemistry teacher says...
mrsmaglietta 6
good use of your college fund
BloodFaerie 21
Well the colleges I have attended so far have all had a teacher review survey at the end of each semester. Hopefully, OP, yours does too and you can be very honest about how this teacher talks to their students and their lack of professionalism.
UsernameHere234 13
Controversial topic here. First I want to say that really does suck. Especially since you are trying so hard as evidenced by yielding u asking your prof for help and so she should help you. However, that being said, profs do have a tough job and are asked a lot of really stupid questions that could easily be answered by a quick Google search or wiki search or your textbook.
devore504 7
well you not in high school anymore. i would never ask for a teacher help after high school.
burro_fml 6
Use khan academy! It taught me everything in calculus, chemistry, science, and language arts that my teacher couldn't explain.
Needafarm 22
I don't think you are paying Google for your degree.