I Hate My Teachers

I don't know why but my professor loves the idea that barely anyone gets a high score and the rest should be middling behind and there should really be a percentage of idiots who fail his exam. Emphasis on that: there should be failures, repeaters, dropouts. There's a rumor that he advised a student to shift to other course because he's delayed. So he wants losers. Or maybe we're that spoiled we complain too much.

Because he. does. not. teach. He just copies the examples in the book and pretends he teaches them when he, initially, hardly understood what those numbers are. He justifies assumptions by saying that "Engineering is like that, so inaccurate, full of estimations." The department only hired him so we can taste Wisconsin style (parang corned beef or sweet ham). There exists profs who are really smart but teaches poorly but him, he's a double negative. To think of his prestigious undergraduate university.

But it's not just him. Almost all of professors in Engineering are like that. They don't teach! And students have to suffer from poor comprehension of the topic because the burden of learning is only hardly equalized by self study. And the university wonders why few honor graduates come from Engineering.

Also, they take pride from deliberately taking number of points from student's scores out of ridiculous reasons. I lost 40 POINTS in a problem in ES 11 because I carelessly forgot to multiply g (acceleration due to gravity). 30 POINTS was cut away from me in an ES 1 problem because of inaccuracy and reasoning, "they're the only ones I have to grade and you missed it." Goddammit, I understood your lesson, I know how to solve it and you judge my performance for little things like carelessness? 10 points for not looking at the right angle yet still correct answer. 10 points for a wrong interpretation of answer even though it is still numerically correct. 20 points for missing that fcking negative sign. It hurts. Especially you know, by heart, what the lesson is all about.

1st exam in ES 11 (the easiest exam supposedly), less than half passed. 2nd exam, barely more than 20% passed. ES 11 is not that hard. Profs make it harder. And a certain point for tradition that circulates in everyone's head that it is fine to fail in ES 11. Why, my college has no virtue for excellence.

I don't care if he hears this, farking fellow students who thrive on rumors. He knows and all profs know that students curse them once in a while. And they don't change. They just laugh it out, "Haha, belat you failed."