Least favorite Professor

travman23 · 06-13-2008, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by j4state

He would top my list by a long shot. He simply doesn't get it. Bad people skills and terrible organization. Half the time he would show up to class (late) and seem to not even know what he had in mind for the day. Year after year he gets pounded in the teacher evals and still holds a job. I don't get it.

I completely forgot about him, OMG was he terrible! I think he gave our evals out about 6 weeks before class ended and coincidently he ripped out out about 2 classes after we filled those out and the big speech started like "apparently some of you don't think I'm doing a good job teaching." Like anyone was going to take that bait and actually come out and tell him what we really thought unless you wanted to see your grade plummet.

I never could get his way of grading either. Writing papers was my thing, I tested out of an English class and cruised by the other plus any time you had to write a case study or paper I had plenty of practice that I much preferred doing papers over taking exams. Well I would write my papers in the same manner, he'd give you an A or B on 1 then a D on another and you followed his direction the same way on both but he could never give you reasons why 1 paper was A quality and the other D. Everyone in the class had this same problem too and to top that off he even forced us to watch some Michael Moore films which I think he has a secret crush on that d-bag the way he talked about him.

mramseyISU · 06-13-2008, 03:07 PM

I'd have to go with Chandra, Professor bolt stretcher himself. Everybody got a B+ but when half the class knew more than the guy teaching you've got problems.

Also I can't believe nobody has said Ann Jones yet for Anthro 201 the newspaper nazi herself.

tman24 · 06-13-2008, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by cycopath25

1 name: Quirmbaugh

I hated quirmbaugh

Cyclone711 · 06-13-2008, 03:38 PM

This guy

CTTB78 · 06-13-2008, 03:42 PM

Biochem Professor French. Dexter I believe.

The guy had no clue as to why people hated taking Biochem.

Cyclone06 · 06-13-2008, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by mramseyISU

Also I can't believe nobody has said Ann Jones yet for Anthro 201 the newspaper nazi herself.

I got a B in that class and did nothing. Not a great teacher, but not my least favorite.

ISUAlum2002 · 06-13-2008, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by travman23

I completely forgot about him, OMG was he terrible! I think he gave our evals out about 6 weeks before class ended and coincidently he ripped out out about 2 classes after we filled those out and the big speech started like "apparently some of you don't think I'm doing a good job teaching." Like anyone was going to take that bait and actually come out and tell him what we really thought unless you wanted to see your grade plummet.

I never could get his way of grading either. Writing papers was my thing, I tested out of an English class and cruised by the other plus any time you had to write a case study or paper I had plenty of practice that I much preferred doing papers over taking exams. Well I would write my papers in the same manner, he'd give you an A or B on 1 then a D on another and you followed his direction the same way on both but he could never give you reasons why 1 paper was A quality and the other D. Everyone in the class had this same problem too and to top that off he even forced us to watch some Michael Moore films which I think he has a secret crush on that d-bag the way he talked about him.

Yeah, I posted about him in the other thread also. I don't remember the procedures for sure but I thought they weren't supposed to do the evaluations until the last class period of the semester. He did the same thing in our class. Gave us the evaluations to fill out either the second or third to last class of the semester, and then spent nearly the entire last class period before the final ranting at us about some of the comments on the evaluations.

Its amazing that some profs like him are still able to keep their jobs.

Al_4_State · 06-15-2008, 11:15 AM

Patricia Hamm. I had her for two Poli Sci classes, one was Foreign Policy, the other Latin-American Politics. She was disorganized, uninformed on what she was teaching and basically graded you on whether or not you rebutted her inconsistent points, and made her look stupid. I somehow managed to keep my mouth shut in her classes, and I think it helped my grade... Not a single person skipped her eval day, lol.

rhlentz · 08-31-2008, 04:05 PM

worst i've had is mcelroy management 370 without a doubt

i took procurement with poist this summer, and while his lectures did get a little boring he was in no way a bad professor, easiest A i've gotten at isu

4VR4CY · 08-31-2008, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by brianhos

I actually kinda liked both of those professors. The worst one I had at ISU was Ralph Tomlinson, he taught some of the comp sci classes, and I think every single student in the class knew more than he did. I am still unclear as to how he god a job teaching when he never knew the material.

Ding Ding Ding! Him and his wife SUCKED!!!!!!! They are no longer at ISU.

I hope my name doesn't end up on this board....

theshadow · 08-31-2008, 05:01 PM

+1 on Squirmin' Herman Quirmbach.

I'll add two more:
(1) Milton McGriff (of "September 29th Movement" fame). Nothing like having to read compositions about the Black Panthers, the IRA, etc., all the time.

(2) A lady who commuted from LeMars. If it snowed anywhere between LeMars and Ames, you could almost always count on class being cancelled. What a waste of money.

LindenCy · 08-31-2008, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by theshadow

+1 on Squirmin' Herman Quirmbach.

I'll add two more:
(1) Milton McGriff (of "September 29th Movement" fame). Nothing like having to read compositions about the Black Panthers, the IRA, etc., all the time.

(2) A lady who commuted from LeMars. If it snowed anywhere between LeMars and Ames, you could almost always count on class being cancelled. What a waste of money.

That is a pretty crazy commute.

Aclone · 08-31-2008, 05:33 PM

I had a professor for History whose lectures made the period seem dead and gone, drier than dust, but since I'm not going to remember his name, I won't nominate him.

On the other hand, I had a friend in EE who complained of one prof (during the late eighties) who would actually stand at the podium and slowly read from the text through his "lecture" period. Apparently he was very good at research, was fully tenured, and didn't care. Don't have a clue what his name was.

hawkeye_t · 08-31-2008, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by 4VR4CY

Ding Ding Ding! Him and his wife SUCKED!!!!!!! They are no longer at ISU.

I hope my name doesn't end up on this board....

Mr. & Mrs. T. They were a little evil and the easily the first thought that popped into my head when I read the thread title. Any idea where they are now?

SeattleClone · 08-31-2008, 07:23 PM

I can't remember the guy's name, or even the specific class (it was Engineering Mechanics 3##) it wasn't Sturges or Rogge, but it was an old guy. Anyways, this guy would just make the most arrogant "you're stupid" comments to students who asked questions in class. Fortunately he looked exactly like one of the canned background characters walking the streets in GTA III so after class I could just go home and run him over with a car or dispose of him in some other violent way, over and over again.