Today, in my architecture class, my professor's lecture consisted of a list of movies and books which feature characters who are architects. I couldn't leave because I needed the attendance points, and it lasted 45 minutes. I paid out of state tuition for this. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my professor spent the entire class showing us how to make paper airplanes. I pay over 40 grand a year for college. FML
Today, I drove to my college campus for my 8 a.m. class, parked, walked the mile and a half to my classroom, just to find out class had been cancelled. The prof didn't send an email because she couldn't remember her password. I paid $1200 to be taught by this woman, who has a doctorate. FML
Today, I had to go meet my professor at 12. I wound up showing up almost an hour late. Why? Because she doesn't teach at the campus I registered at. I wound up having to visit TWO different campuses before I reached the right one. FML
Today, my professor let a guy into my philosophy class 30 minutes late because his excuse was, "Time is just an illusion." This is the same professor that kicked me out of the classroom for being 2 minutes late. FML
Today, after attending lectures for months, studying for weeks, and spending hours writing a 15-page research paper, I was informed that due to technological issues during registration, I was not enrolled in the class. FML
Today, I drove 3 hours to get to a class, just to have the professor leave a note on the classroom door saying that she wasn't coming. FML
Today, I found out that I have to take a weekly workshop outside of class time all semester, and it's only offered on the day I have the most work hours. I barely make ends meet as it is, but the professor said to figure it out or fail. FML
Today, we watched a movie in class. Afterwards, the professor asked us what we thought. I raised my hand and said it was pretentious, dull and a really poor example of filmmaking. It was the movie HE spent five years writing and directing. FML
Today, I finally found out why I got a D in a class last semester. It was a heavily attendance-based class, and apparently he only marked you present if you participated in class discussion. It was a 100-seat lecture. FML
Today, I decided to show up to my new class an hour early, to be able to choose my seat, and figure out how the computer lab works… only to find out that the lab was locked and I had to wait until the professor unlocked it. FML
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oj101 33
Inception really challenges the mind, so you're probably getting your money's worth after all.
TheFirstSamurai 18
Does "The Architect" in The Matrix count? He built a whole world.
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Aregonde 15
Without knowing the context and purpose of this lecture, I don't know whether to say FYL for having to put with with a bullshit excuse for a lesson or YDI for being narrow-minded as a student. If the professor just listed a bunch of movies and books and didn't actually do anything with that information, then I agree that's a class period best spent on Facebook. But if he/she had you examine the differences between popular conception vs reality of an architect's profession, for example, I can see that being a very valuable, relevant discussion, and 45 minutes would barely be enough time to scratch its surface. I guess a lot of people still want thick, ivy-cloaked walls between academic material and popular culture or other "real life" experiences. I studied music education in college, and I've observed a lot of students wasting their OWN (or their parents') tuition money by being stubborn and hostile towards less familiar or less traditional teaching methods. A teacher's job is not just to spoon-feed you factoids and step-by-step tutorials like a talking Internet. Just because YOU don't immediately understand the point of a lesson doesn't mean the lesson has no point, and you're certainly not going to get anything out of the class if you give it all of ten minutes before deciding your professor is the worst professor ever and the material is unworthy of your attention.
fksfsdhfsdfh 26
Thats a weird school!
after4ffect 11
did it include Ted Mosby?
cmbar831 14
I actually moderated this. I voted it up, but I didn't think it was actually going to make it. Congrats OP
hooligyn123 18
I took a Computer Sciences class that turned out to take place entirely on the MMO Second Life. Easiest but absolutely weirdest 4 credits ever. It met my science requirement however so I didn't complain too much about paying for it.
gertrude7 9
I had an English lit professor last semester who, for every short story we had to read, would show us multiple bad reenactments made by high school students on YouTube. EVERY CLASS. There were never any lecture notes, never any class discussions, nothing. The only reason I passed that class was because I'd also read all the stories in high school. Such a waste.
firefly319 7
I had a professor that asked question like, "On Thursday of last week, who did I say was right." His opinion was constantly referenced in tests. I was pretty much done with that class. Had it been called "opinions of professor X's of government over the years." I wouldn't have been upset... Or have taken it.
Likian5 26
It's just one day, chill out. If this was going on for months, then you may have a reason to complain.
Nirah_fml 18
When I was in school for becoming a Health Care Attendant (generally taking care of people in retirement homes), we had regular 'filler' classes that had no purpose other than to fill another day. Once we had to sit through an hour and a half of a "truth about gambling" lecture. And another day was listening to a lecture from a guest speaker about her bipolar disorder, which would have been applicable if she had taught us anything. Instead, it was two hours of listening to her bitch about how horrible and stressful her life is, her bad relationship with her mother, and way too much information about the details of her divorce. Seriously, I don't know what my teachers were thinking some days.
CRC_101 31
Look, there are always going to be some times at a university when a class period seems, and perhaps is, absolutely worthless. Be glad it was only one forty-five minute period. Every week our professor makes us stay in class with nothing to do for twice that amount of time because he finishes his lecture early and has nothing more to say. I'd say, suck it up. Now if this happened all the time, I agree, I'd feel somewhat sorry for you.