Big Univsersities and Colleges...

[Vigilante]

So I've just wrapped up my first semester at a big school...and I've come up with a few hypotheses:

1) Math professors don't have souls. They are always greek and think in binary

2) Community College professors are always a million times better than I've experienced here.

3) Teachers at big universities can suck because they're more interested in research than teaching students.

Anybody else agree? I'm just venting.

 

[Avoidist]

4) Local professors are almost always better at teaching the course material than new professors who don't understand the level you are at.

5) Foreign lecturers are brilliant when you can actually understand them through their accent.

6) There aren't enough females of any title in Physics.

 

[Krynn72]

Ill add a one from my experience.

7) Art teachers with "Real world" experience are just the people who couldnt hack it in the industry, but still think they're amazing.

 

[Dan]

The funniest profs I've had were math profs. They have a really strange sense of humour.

 

[Ennui]

I agree, my philosophy professor is one of the top ones at the school and he doesn't give a shit about the class.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Acedemics have very little concept of the real world.

Haha.. one of our lectures goes everywhere in a hi-vis jacket hahaha

 

[evil^milk]

I think smaller colleges and unis are better than those that have about 200 kids in one classroom.

Why?

There is a stronger relationship with the student and teacher. There's time to focus on a less proportion of students and increase their chances of learning when they ask questions and get involved in the classes.

 

[French Ninja]

All Physics teachers are fat.

This is truth.

 

[Ennui]

I think smaller colleges and unis are better than those that have about 200 kids in one classroom.

Why?

There is a stronger relationship with the student and teacher. There's time to focus on a less proportion of students and increase their chances of learning when they ask questions and get involved in the classes.

True. Although even large universities have this. I attend UNC Chapel-Hill, which has something like 17,000 undergraduates (60% of which are female ) and I had two large lecture classes with 150-200 students, both intro courses, and two small ones with no more than 15 or 20 students. So you still get the personal relationship.

 

[Vigilante]

True. Although even large universities have this. I attend UNC Chapel-Hill, which has something like 17,000 undergraduates (60% of which are female ) and I had two large lecture classes with 150-200 students, both intro courses, and two small ones with no more than 15 or 20 students. So you still get the personal relationship.

I agree also, but I'll also say I've had some good professors here. There are some that are there to teach, and some that are there to research and the teaching is an 'unfortunate side-effect'. I go to the University of Maryland, 28,000 undergrads :dozey:. I'm not a huge fan.

 

[Direwolf]

Research guys who love students are the best teachers ever though too. I've had a few that weren't concerned with grades, loved what they taught, and actually gave a crap about us.

 

[Kakashi]

I agree also, but I'll also say I've had some good professors here. There are some that are there to teach, and some that are there to research and the teaching is an 'unfortunate side-effect'. I go to the University of Maryland, 28,000 undergrads :dozey:. I'm not a huge fan.

hah another marylander
right now I'm at UMBC, (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) love it here, it has a nice quiet feel, surrounded by trees and small towns. Its not as crazy as it is at CP, and class sizes are relatively small.

 

[staticprimer]

Acedemics have very little concept of the real world.

Haha.. one of our lectures goes everywhere in a hi-vis jacket hahaha

Then every once in a while you'll get a professor who has probably seen more shit than you ever will. My favorite professor was smack dab in the middle of the war in Chechnya in the mid 90's. He came here via political asylum after a price was put on his head. Some of the stories he has told are so horrific it is even difficult for me to recount them to others.

 

[Pulse]

8) The majority of computing related tutors are old, incompetent and lazy bastards.

 

[The Monkey]

The uni I'm at has 40,000 students.

The professors are better than the lectors, because they don't have any stress on them. They've already reached the highest position and can relax. That makes them much better teachers.

 

[Vigilante]

hah another marylander
right now I'm at UMBC, (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) love it here, it has a nice quiet feel, surrounded by trees and small towns. Its not as crazy as it is at CP, and class sizes are relatively small.

I shoulda gone to UMBC ;(.

 

[Kakashi]

I shoulda gone to UMBC ;(.

A lot of people puts down UMBC at times, sometimes I don't understand it, I'm glad I went here instead of CP. CP just seems so big and crazy, but for me majority of my friends are here atUMBC anyways.

But of course, still have a lot at CP too. What grad year are you in?

 

[Ennui]

Then every once in a while you'll get a professor who has probably seen more shit than you ever will. My favorite professor was smack dab in the middle of the war in Chechnya in the mid 90's. He came here via political asylum after a price was put on his head. Some of the stories he has told are so horrific it is even difficult for me to recount them to others.

Can you try, because that sounds awfully interesting.

 

[Vigilante]

A lot of people puts down UMBC at times, sometimes I don't understand it, I'm glad I went here instead of CP. CP just seems so big and crazy, but for me majority of my friends are here atUMBC anyways.

But of course, still have a lot at CP too. What grad year are you in?

2009. I'm a civil engineering major. If UMBC had offered civil I'd have gone there, but they didn't. They accepted me, though.

 

[staticprimer]

Can you try, because that sounds awfully interesting.

He has been monitored by the KGB, been on a train that was hijacked by Shamil Basayev(A side note on that, my professor's ethnicity is Ossetian, who the Chechens hate. He had to exploit his knowledge of Chechen customs to escape that one alive). He has also seen people our age play soccer with severed heads and eating cooked fetuses. When he told that one, I had hoped for the sake of humanity that he was making it up, but when his eyes began to tear up I knew it was all true.

 

[Kakashi]

2009. I'm a civil engineering major. If UMBC had offered civil I'd have gone there, but they didn't. They accepted me, though.

Yeah, well in your case I would have done the same, they have a really great Engineering program.