What moment made you want to rage quit college? (r/AskReddit Top Stories)

students and professors of reddit what moment made you want to rage quit college got a failing score on a lab report even though me and the rest of the group thought we did everything in the rubric we went to our tars office hours later to ask about the score she basically reversed all subtracted points because she was taking off points for things we had done correctly the next year one of my lab mates got a grading position with that thar she admitted to him that halfway through the year she stopped paying attention to the reports and assigned random scores WTF this is a college-level course for our major you can't do that usually when you take any kind of math oriented exam math physics mechanics etc you get a pack of problems slapped on your desk and you finish it in the time allotted so you can generally blow through 90% of a test and get stuck on one difficult parts for the remainder or just have at aha moments at the end to squeeze in a few extra points but this one guy have a bright idea if handing out and collecting each problem at 15-minute intervals so once the problem was collected that was it even if you figured out the mistake earlier it was already too late hate the prof to this day I cannot for the life of me figure out what the prof was trying to accomplish by doing that the valuable lesson that you only get one shot at anything in life obviously slashers if at first you don't succeed give up William Edward Hicks I had to write an essay about my feeling studying abroad for reflection so obviously I made the whole essay then had to resume it it because that is not how you should be feeling she misspelled my name in the email still makes me really mad had an English prophet told me that my personal experience essay about my second boyfriend committing suicide was obviously fake switched classes to a different professor after that resubmitted the assignment and got a B formatting mistakes mostly since I use liber office rather than paying forward my English teachers as a second language always told our that we could lie as long as the grammar and story worked I didn't think some asked for the truth at this point I'd just say my personal life isn't your business ' I purposefully wrote a personal essay about what it was like to grow up black because I was 13 couldn't think of anything personal I wanted to share with my [ __ ] of a teacher and thought it would be funny I'm not black but I'm not white either my white teacher gave me an A and didn't ask any questions this sounds like that brown privilege I keep hearing about unless you're a shoe make this even funnier when my supervisor decided that I needed to completely rewrite my master's thesis for publication to an angle that was complete nonsense and unpublishable feeling this hard right now how did you manage to get them to let you finish I personally never had to do this but if your pies being completely unreasonable go talk to the rest of your committee or even other professors in the department they should be able to help convince your PI to change their mind if you find that the rest of the professors in the department agree with your PI then they're probably right no matter how much you want to think otherwise I helped my girlfriend through this last year she was wrapping up her thesis after two years of research and only had a couple of months until she had to turn it in to the committee her supervisor expected her to turn in drafts but would not provide notes outside of you need to rewrite this those notes even came with the solid bit of gold I shouldn't need to tell you how to do this you're a grad student she went to the department chair with her drafts in the email chain and the department chair basically took over as a supervisor for home stretch but that didn't stop her supp from demanding basically a complete rewrite with a week before the due date threatening to not sign off on it that profits now in a bind because he can't find anyone to join his program word got around that he is a bag of dicks to work with he's not getting any research published because he doesn't have any assistance so hopefully he'll get the sack soon first day in a particular finance class senior year professor who here is taking other classes pretty much everybody raises a hand professor who here has a job most of the class raises a hand professor well that's a mistake because this class will take you at least 50 hours a week just to pass I thought he was just trying to be a hard-ass but then the guy behind me confirmed that the class would indeed take that much time per week every week just to get by because it was his third time taking the class and he was otherwise an A student sorry I have bills to pay other classes and other responsibilities the time does not exist to put that much time into this class so I did rage quit after trying desperately to get through the class for a couple of months during grad school my research advisor asked me to help out another fellow grad student in their researches both of our searches have a lot of experimental puranas anyway I spent good bit of two months of summer helping that colleague in her experiments and data and then Myra told me that I couldn't use any of the data that I [ __ ] helped create not only did I lose months of my precious time but also I got no benefit other than my name being mentioned in a footnote on my colleagues paper the time that both my T 83 plus and my t 89 died during a final exam I missed a quiz due to a medical emergency and had the documentation of my ER visit and everything I am allowed my char aquas is were during discussion sections led by our tars about making up the quiz the Thar told me to email the professor because it's his class policies I am annulled the professor have then told me to email the tower because the tower is the one who administered the quiz shouldered them both and said converse between yourselves and reply all with your answer I've had to do this at work a couple of times I work third shift in quality control at a factory and if I needed something done that morning my boss would say you need to get with materials supervisor about that my old materials supervisor she said I'm not sure you should ask my boss quality manager she normally handles that I then sent an email to the person I was discussing the issue with originally and said I've been given two different answers on how this is handled so please work it out with materials and quality and - both of them took a couple of days but they figured it out eventually either way I can't do anything if the guys in charge don't know what protocol is the CC is best weapon you have in the business world I was docked 10% of a final essay because I had the wrong date so it wasn't following MLA standards I put the date I submitted instead of the date it was due I got a 90% on the paper you're supposed to put the date you last updated the paper not the due date your professors were incorrect doesn't make a difference for me my so is working on her master's right now and a couple weeks ago the professor added a [ __ ] huge assignment that wasn't in the syllabus and it wasn't even going to be graded however if they didn't do it it was going to count against their participation grade a few days ago he announced that it was actually to try to teach them to stand up for themselves he wanted the class to tell him the assignment was [ __ ] they all failed this little test ' what that's grounds to go to the head of the department because that's some terrible [ __ ] as much as I appreciate fighting the man in questioning Authority this is not the time or place for such a thing considering many teachers genuinely assigned [ __ ] like that and you the students suffer if you fight back two major things really stick out one I wrote a optics midterm feeling very confident in getting close to 100 got my mark back and it was a 30% I went to go check my exam and saw that the final grade was a 9 over 30 I looked through my exam and found only one mark wrong turns out that I forgot to put the 2 in front of the 9 on the total mark page 2 for a weekly assignment at our took off 50% of your mark if you didn't include separate cover page even if you got perfect on the assignment oh and they didn't tell us we needed one until after already submitting the first assignment when we had to buy four hundred dollar textbooks when the previous edition could be bought secondhand for fifty dollars the only difference between the two editions the order of the practice problems at the end of each chapter I had to take a discrete math course in the current book was the seventh edition and it was $400 bucks first day the prof tells us if we haven't already bought the textbook don't the fifth and sixth edition a 100% identical except for the practice problems and he was assigning homework based on questions he made not the book told us to buy the fifth edition cause it was like five bucks on Amazon I did event management at uni a few years ago our lecturer brought in her eight-year-old daughter who had been a stage show once to teach us about stage management almost all of the class didn't turn up to the next lecture in protest just recently bought a $300 loose-leaf textbook for math now this isn't any higher level math it's College Algebra something everyone at my school has to take of course it's written by my professor of course it changes every year took it out of the shrink-wrap and saw that the book was 150 pages leaf through it and saw that it is literally nothing there's hardly any information like to practice problems per topic and a glossary the real information comes from a 100-dollar access code that has more practice problems and actual information needed to complete the class so now I'm out $300 dollars on a [ __ ] paperweight and 450 dollars on one general education class there's nothing that can be done at this point I can't get a refund all I can hope for is pawning it off to some unsuspecting student for likely less than half of what I paid for now I'm all angry again [ __ ] you professor J I need to go lie down the moment I got massive weekly group assignments that were only worth between two three percent we lost half the marks on one question because that page of the PDF submission was sideways but can't you just press the rotate button on a PDF to straighten it unless I use a PDF Editor it just rotates back once I open it in another reader my advanced foreign language professor dictated that we could not speak English at all during the class or we would have Marx taken away this was fine until one day a girl started coughing up blood and we all stopped to make sure she was okay and help her out professor took Marx off because we spoke in English I'm still [ __ ] angry edit there were thirteen people in the class all of us disputed this when we became aware they'd be taken away we were informed during the next lecture the lecturer Tucker voluntary leave of absence I'm not sure if he's back at the university because I graduated before he could have come back the language was Japanese i tanked my GPA due to missing half a semester for a health issue I was allowed to appeal to the Dean and basically get my grades tossed I welder beam out the tuition but my GPA would have survived however I had to have all my professors sign off that they agreed the appeal was justified one professor refused to agree on the appeal and I wasn't allowed to turn it in my math lab by person I had a rough time with my math lab then my next term was with the next level of hell mastering physics by person I hope the bastard said person suffer as much as the people that have been forced to deal with their [ __ ] mastering chemistry is worse I'm so sorry we literally had a group of seven of us trying to do some homework five answers each and still unable to get it I once took a class called the Internet to fulfill a requirement it taught you how to right-click navigate to websites and use search engines this was in 2005 it was also an online course that was probably the least ridiculous thing about my first college but it only got worse I nope doubt of that school after one year thank God want to hear more stories about your first college I had a professor who had serious mental issues this guy was just a raging maniac with the scariest explosive temper the smallest things would set him off for instance this one girl had a bunch of papers stacked on her desk and he asked her what it was and she politely informed him that she was a tower and they were tests that she was going to great later it's not like she was grading them in class she was taking notes and being quite it just happened to be on her desk he shouted at her to put it away he would get angry when anyone asked any questions he almost threw a chair at someone and yelled profanities everyone was scared of him so myself and another student spoke to the Dean under condition of anonymity since we were still in his class the dean disclosed our names to him and aren't crazy prof. started cold calling us and he gave me a B instead of an a even though I made an a on every test and quiz because my class participation was abysmal nobody wanted to speak in his class anyway the whole thing was aggravating there are people of the company I work for who have been fired for less my brother is a college professor now and he says the world of academia has its share of arrogant egotistical pricks but of course there are also nice ones I took a course called companion animals no matter what I did I could not get less than 100% on anything mr. test makeup at home unsupervised 100% final project completed in 15 minutes with the glue stick poster board and Wikipedia 100% it was such a joke granted I thought maybe by finishing the class I could have an animal familiar like a goat or something never happened though I asked a question and the teacher ignored me minutes later a different student asked the same question and the teacher said good question and answered it enthusiastically the it situation at my undergrad was usually described as a lot of little fixes on an ancient set of software instead of upgrading at some point there was a comical little error where Campus Services couldn't be accessed but only from campus we fee if you lived off campus used mobile data or could go somewhere off-campus with we fee you could get into campus services but if you couldn't very likely in a small town probably only places with we fee were friends houses McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts you were screwed a professor got mad at us for not doing any online assignments because well then why aren't you contacting its services yourselves and having them fix it you know like we could contact it and everything would magically go back up and be fixed we recently had some sort of update to our network and it caused all the Mac's to be unable to get onto the main whiffy they could only get into guest whiffy which meant they couldn't send things to the printers there was no notice given out about this so the next morning I hear a bunch of screaming from another professor who is unable to print off the midterm he was giving that morning tech support wasn't available because it was 7 a.m. and the entire College of Arts and Science it department is one person there's 7 staff for our diversity Center one person for it all of my graded work added up to an A but the professor gave me a C because she didn't like my attitude I went to the Dean to contest the grade he told me that he couldn't do anything about it because I would have her as a professor in the future and didn't want to make things awkward instead he gave me a CD of him playing Presbyterian hymns on the trumpet and sent me on my way [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Wed Jul 01 2020