*THIS* is why I was so happy to be done with the LAST degree!

[lunadelcorvo]

So I have this professor... (Hush, you, this is not an "Oh, no, not again!") This guy is arrogance personified. Rude, callous, self absorbed - every stereotype of the haughty, snobbish professor you can imagine. However, this is absolutely unjustified! He's disorganized, catastrophically unclear, and radically inconsistent. After two back-to-back incidents where literally (I actually asked all of them) no one in the class had any idea what was required from a given assignment, apparently someone complained. (I spoke to my chair because we have that kind of relationship, and she'd asked me to keep her posted on how he was doing.)

Anyway, a few days later we all get an e-mail titled "apology" in which he basically said "I'm really very sorry you all suck and can't work at the graduate level, and clearly I expected too much." *Incoherent Rage*

Really, if you think I'm reading into it, here it is:

This course has not gone well for me and some(perhaps all) of you.Hardly anything has gone as I planned or anticipated.Apparently I was presumptuous about where all of you are with regard to expectations for graduate course work.I took too much for granted based on my past experience.I will continue to try to accomplish the stated goals for the course.

(Yes, the lack of proper spaces is his, not mine. Now I'm hardly one to get on my high horse about my typing, but then, I'm not the one telling my higher lever adult grad students they suck, either....

Why, oh why did I start this degree? Oh, right, because there isn't a nice, respectable, history or medieval studies program within three hours drive of here. *headdesk* DOn't even get me started on how I'm loving the obligatory Theory course.... Y'all know how much I *love* theory. Grrrrrr.

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

What a ghastly, privileged little twonk!

Presumptuous? Aye! Just a bit!

Makes me glad I have my own pet mediaevalist living right here alongside me! :o)

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you, I was starting to run low on adjectives & invectives! I'm definitely keeping a few of those. LOL

Isn't he though? I could almost forgive it if the guy was some kind of luminary in his (or any) field. If he was exhaustively knowledgeable, widely hailed as the authority, or even just enthralling to listen to as a lecturer. He's just not, not even close. And by the way, this is a course about movies. Movies! Argh.

Thing is, this is one of the very few schools to offer full, hour-for-hour tuition remission, transferrable to family members. So as long as hubby and I combined teach enough courses to equal full time at this school, my son can go to a relatively prestigious (to say nothing of insanely expensive), private school for his undergrad basically free.

If it were not for that, I'd have insisted we move somewhere so I could find a good doctoral degree program. But with the cost and uncertainty of higher ed what it is, we can't make ourselves walk away from that opportunity for him...

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Blame that one on my dour northeastern mining ancestry- it was a favourite of my gran's! :o)

I'm just so glad to have had the privilege of Patrick Collinson as my MA Prof and that he had oversight of my thesis. He was what you term exhaustively knowledgeable and was widely hailed as an authority. Also just a lovely guy.

[samuraiartguy.livejournal.com]

Don't get me STARTED on "insanely expensive"... Most mid tier 4-year schools are consing in the realm of 225K for a Bachelors degree. SUNY will run a typical student something like 80K.

So I certainly can appreciate your sticking it out to give your kiddo a shot!

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

This one is in the 150K range (tuition only, no housing). That is lowish for a private school, but it's also in Kentucky, where overall cost of living and accordingly, salaries are way on the low end. I don't really know where it falls in terms of tier, but it's #224 on Forbes' list, whatever that means... LOL

[samuraiartguy.livejournal.com]

Aye. I graduated from Pratt Institute in '80 for about a total hit to my clan and I of around 20K. The School now weighs in at just over 172K just Tuition & fees, before Room and Board, barring annual increases of 8%-15%.

Still well in the "Holy S**t" range...

[sorshawolf.livejournal.com]

I must work with this guys brother or something - cause these are the exact "qualities" that my co-worker has in spades. Pointing blame to everyone else except himself, obnoxious, rude, callous - that list could go on and on.