SO. I'm currently waiting for a reply e-mail from the chair of the department for my major.

I know a good chunk of Subeta users are college-aged and some are going to university, feel free to vent your frustrations on this topic.

To summarize my issue: I need to stay on honor roll. 3 of my 4 classes are going great, currently have an A. One class I need to graduate is totally up in the air. No class schedule, no grade scale, final points anywhere from 100 to 150 and no information about how assignments will be weighed, when exams are scheduled, when homework is due. No hard copy of any course information. Also he said attendance will count for our grade but he does not take roll call. I talked to the professor today after class and he basically said he teaches it how he wants to. I was advised to take my issue to the chair.

Ahhhhh, college administration is the worst. Mine assured me I could take a semester off without penalty, so I turned in the paperwork they told me to when they told me to, but they messed it up somehow in processing it and instead dropped me from the university. So I tried to protest, but they wouldn't even talk to me since I "wasn't a student anymore," and I had to crash all of my classes this semester and pay for them all up-front, out of pocket without any financial aid available. What a joy.

It's funny because I just posted the almost the same thread talking about how I DON'T want this to happen. But that sucks, and I'm sorry. I don't see why the professor has to be a jerk about how he justifies the way he teaches, or runs his class room. What exactly are you gonna do about it? I need to learn your ways so if this happens to me, I'll be set xD

I recently graduated, but I can relate to the bad professors thing. During my last semester I had a professor who claimed to want to encourage debate in his classroom, but would shut you down or change the topic if you voiced an opinion he disagreed with. I also had a chemistry teacher who gave the worst study guides for tests: the problems on the test were way more complicated than those on the guides (to the point where it made no difference whether you used the guide or not) and there was no answer key to show if you were doing it right because "people will just copy the answers and not learn" (On a study guide? Why would anyone do that?). Her reading quizzes were also a joke; the questions were so specific that you had the same chance of passing it if you actually did the reading or just guessed the answers (in fact, I'm pretty sure I did better on average when I didn't do the reading).

And almost every semester I had a problem with registration for classes. One semester I dropped out of a class I didn't need, only to receive an F for it on my midterm grades. The best part was, the professor didn't know why I got it either since we both knew I'd dropped the class, and she hadn't even submitted a grade for me. Thankfully the mistake was cleared up, but still...

That sucks so hard :( that is a nightmare for people and why some people don't take breaks when they should be able to. That's such a screw up on their part, but of course no one will take responsibility...so bureaucratic. And we pay these institutions.

Well the chair of the department did absolutely nothing. I met with him and our meeting was less than 5 minutes. He told me to handle it with the professor...So now I'm bothering my professor after every class asking about upcoming assignments and my grades, etc. I'm still thinking about going back to advisement office for college of Arts & Sciences because an academic adviser there told me that there are certain requirements for a course curriculum and that you can't be graded arbitrarily... the adviser said if nothing happened with the chair to come back and the dean of students for my college would push the issue. I think there should be some sort of real syllabus for every class, not just for my personal benefit. But at this point I'm just making sure I get a decent grade because I paid for the class, no way am I withdrawing and getting a W on my record because of this guy.

My professor is in his own little world about teaching, too. He will say "I want to have a class discussion now" and ask us a leading question that he then answers himself and takes over on another lecture. None of us get to speak and if we do he jumps in to correct, you know, our opinions.

Oh and just a fun tidbit. The chair said that when he talked to my professor, he said he has taught the course this way multiple times before and never has a student had a complaint about it. Right...maybe because you control their grade and they had a feeling they wouldn't be taken seriously?

; DUDE. This exact thing happened to me but I ended up switching to a community college because paying up front was just not possible for me. I was so so angry at the whole thing, I can't believe it's okay to do that to someone. Really made me hate a university that I was once so excited to attend. That and I was never able to get any of my major-specific courses because they keep accepting so many damn ppl to my college.

; Your prof sounds super inconsiderate...have you told him about how you need to stay on honor roll? His grading system sounds completely whack, I can't even imagine how stressed you are right now. It sucks that he might take your constant questioning as bothersome and tweak your grade....goddddd.

College system is so messed.

Ah Ha. I'm so sorry, that's so stressful. I take all my issues to the head of the department. Many....many times. Most of the time with hard evidence of what they are doing. Which is kinda hard in your case. Did you stress to your prof that you really need to pass?

My head of my department is being.....slow....on signing my graduation application. He only has 2 weeks left. Which has me stressed to death. Also on my mind is the class I instruct. Prob the hardest class I have this semester, just because the lab coordinator keeps changing the material a day before.

Tuition and textbooks cost way too much. Even though I graduated from my community college, I want to go back to get cooking related certificates. But, I've already maxed out my hours and can't get any more financial aid or loans. While in college, I had to withdraw from several classes and I failed a few due to life messing me up. I also half completed an AS degree and then learned I don't give a crap about theater. I keep on trying to get scholarships, but it seems like none of them like helping with technical certificates or degrees.

I don't get why textbooks and online labs cost so much. I used to rent textbooks and then later, I stopped getting textbooks all together. It only sucked when I need to buy an access code for labs in online classes.

Ah I remember the one professor I had who told me that if I didn't want to hand over my Facebook login to a potential employer than the program I was in (Security) wasn't for me. :') I have nothing to hide but the dumb bitch was definitely a fan of the, "If you're innocent you have nothing to hide," mentality. All the other professors were very much (rightly) against that kind of thinking. Besides, technically it's against Facebook's TOS to share accounts so she was advocating breaking a contract with them.

One of the ladies in the registrar's office insulted my girlfriend as well. She'd just wanted to have them confirm she had all the credits she needed or if she needed to take another general elective. The woman said that people in the Early Childhood Education program (my girlfriend was not in that program) weren't good with computers. My girlfriend told her off right there, thankfully. I weenied out of telling my professor off.

First off, the professors are required to tell us in advance if there is a book requirement so students can financially plan ahead. So, first day of classes, freshman year, I log onto my online online 1-credit course and find out where previously it had said no materials required it now required us to purchase a $60 e-book written by the professor himself and the first assignment due that night was a quiz based off the material from that book. At this point- I had absolutely zero money and had purchased all of my books ahead of time- so I was completely thrown off, and wouldn't get my first paycheck for about two weeks. I e-mailed him, and he basically told me that the fact that I did not have money was not his problem. Not only that- but my dorm's wi-fi sucked and he constantly required us to upload videos of ourselves giving speeches and what not onto the website- and they literally would not upload. I e-mailed him about it several times- and offered to give him the videos on a flash-drive or something, but no cigar. I ended up with a D in that course because I was able to ace my final essay for it.

Luckily, my professors otherwise have all been super supportive and generally really wanted me to succeed, just that one professor I swear I will never take again ever. In-person or online.

Also do not get me started on the fact that my university lost some of its best resources due to administration (we have a program and office for financially struggling students and this year they lost almost all of their staff)...they've also cut the high school outreach programs that came from that office...and then they wonder why less people are applying this year than last year.