Nigel's Shiny New Life Thread

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Out of almost 40 original students, there are 10 left and 2 of them aren't passing. WHICH I SHOULDN'T EVEN KNOW but she is insanely unprofessional.

[Scribbly]

We had a similar fucknozzle at university. Thankfully I didn't take his class, but he almost cost several of my friends their degree (or at least, it felt like it at the time) by marking essays as '0' if he detected a single error in referencing.

I believe that the decision was overturned after class rebellion at the fact that referencing was only allowed, by University regulations, to account for 10 per cent of the grade of the paper, but he caused a LOT of stress to a lot of students.

Yes. This crazy woman is like that. Dinged 25% for turning in a paper after class instead of before, unrealistic expectations, delusions of grandeur, poor communication, etc.

There are some lecturers who seem to view students as getting in the way of being a lecturer, or that they have to make life as miserable as possible for the students who dare to try and take their class. It boggles me, but I guess you get people like that all over.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

We had a similar fucknozzle at university. Thankfully I didn't take his class, but he almost cost several of my friends their degree (or at least, it felt like it at the time) by marking essays as '0' if he detected a single error in referencing.

I believe that the decision was overturned after class rebellion at the fact that referencing was only allowed, by University regulations, to account for 10 per cent of the grade of the paper, but he caused a LOT of stress to a lot of students.

Yes. This crazy woman is like that. Dinged 25% for turning in a paper after class instead of before, unrealistic expectations, delusions of grandeur, poor communication, etc.

There are some lecturers who seem to view students as getting in the way of being a lecturer, or that they have to make life as miserable as possible for the students who dare to try and take their class. It boggles me, but I guess you get people like that all over.

I suspect that she thinks "unreasonable demands that stress the students and cause most of them to drop or fail" is the same as "pushing them to learn".

[AnnaMaeBollocks]

We had a similar fucknozzle at university. Thankfully I didn't take his class, but he almost cost several of my friends their degree (or at least, it felt like it at the time) by marking essays as '0' if he detected a single error in referencing.

I believe that the decision was overturned after class rebellion at the fact that referencing was only allowed, by University regulations, to account for 10 per cent of the grade of the paper, but he caused a LOT of stress to a lot of students.

Yes. This crazy woman is like that. Dinged 25% for turning in a paper after class instead of before, unrealistic expectations, delusions of grandeur, poor communication, etc.

SHE'S A MAVRIK

[Doktor Howl]

Out of almost 40 original students, there are 10 left and 2 of them aren't passing. WHICH I SHOULDN'T EVEN KNOW but she is insanely unprofessional.

Does she wear a fucking drill sergeant's hat or something?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Out of almost 40 original students, there are 10 left and 2 of them aren't passing. WHICH I SHOULDN'T EVEN KNOW but she is insanely unprofessional.

Does she wear a fucking drill sergeant's hat or something?

She ought to.

Also, she made me make a Powerpoint presentation.

What the fuck. I was like, "What the hell is Powerpoint?" and she said "It's the P at the bottom of your computer screen" and I said "My computer doesn't have that".

I was lying, but whatever. The only reason I have it is because of the Amazon Vine program.

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Out of almost 40 original students, there are 10 left and 2 of them aren't passing. WHICH I SHOULDN'T EVEN KNOW but she is insanely unprofessional.

Does she wear a fucking drill sergeant's hat or something?

She ought to.

Also, she made me make a Powerpoint presentation.

What the fuck. I was like, "What the hell is Powerpoint?" and she said "It's the P at the bottom of your computer screen" and I said "My computer doesn't have that".

I was lying, but whatever. The only reason I have it is because of the Amazon Vine program.

IT'S AN ABOMINATION, IS WHAT IT IS.

Edward Tufte believes it heavily contributed to a space disaster that killed seven astronauts.

No shit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Out of almost 40 original students, there are 10 left and 2 of them aren't passing. WHICH I SHOULDN'T EVEN KNOW but she is insanely unprofessional.

Does she wear a fucking drill sergeant's hat or something?

She ought to.

Also, she made me make a Powerpoint presentation.

What the fuck. I was like, "What the hell is Powerpoint?" and she said "It's the P at the bottom of your computer screen" and I said "My computer doesn't have that".

I was lying, but whatever. The only reason I have it is because of the Amazon Vine program.

IT'S AN ABOMINATION, IS WHAT IT IS.

Edward Tufte believes it heavily contributed to a space disaster that killed seven astronauts.

No shit.

I am going to tell her that, and also I am going to tell her that her requirement of Powerpoint presentations is a social problem.

[Don Coyote]

Out of almost 40 original students, there are 10 left and 2 of them aren't passing. WHICH I SHOULDN'T EVEN KNOW but she is insanely unprofessional.

Does she wear a fucking drill sergeant's hat or something?

She ought to.

Also, she made me make a Powerpoint presentation.

What the fuck. I was like, "What the hell is Powerpoint?" and she said "It's the P at the bottom of your computer screen" and I said "My computer doesn't have that".

I was lying, but whatever. The only reason I have it is because of the Amazon Vine program.

IT'S AN ABOMINATION, IS WHAT IT IS.

Edward Tufte believes it heavily contributed to a space disaster that killed seven astronauts.

No shit.

I am going to tell her that, and also I am going to tell her that her requirement of Powerpoint presentations is a social problem.

Be careful, that kind of shit will get you fired from being a big general.
Fucking powerpoint. Oh how I loathe you.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In retaliation, absolutely the only thing on my slides is figures and citations. They are boring as fuck.

[Scribbly]

My tutors absolutely hated powerpoints. I actually got graded up for NOT using them in a couple of classes! I feel your pain, but figure-only powerpoint is totally the best use of them. Picture-strewn, text-laden crap with fancy screenwipes are just distracting, IMO.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

One of the girls, her only slides were graphs from the Portland Public Schools website.

I was like, wow, you REALLY went minimalist for this one.

Also her presentation was maybe 5 minutes long. We're supposed to be going for 30.

[Scribbly]

One of the girls, her only slides were graphs from the Portland Public Schools website.

I was like, wow, you REALLY went minimalist for this one.

Also her presentation was maybe 5 minutes long. We're supposed to be going for 30.

30 minutes?! Geez. I had to give a ten minute talk and do a ten minute discussion and that was more than enough for me.

[Don Coyote]

One of the girls, her only slides were graphs from the Portland Public Schools website.

I was like, wow, you REALLY went minimalist for this one.

Also her presentation was maybe 5 minutes long. We're supposed to be going for 30.

Oh man. Your teacher makes me want to take that class just so I can inflict a 30 min death by powerpoint on her. I can do the whole low monotone, reading every word carefully off my slides if need by.

But seriously, why the fuck powerpoint?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

One of the girls, her only slides were graphs from the Portland Public Schools website.

I was like, wow, you REALLY went minimalist for this one.

Also her presentation was maybe 5 minutes long. We're supposed to be going for 30.

30 minutes?! Geez. I had to give a ten minute talk and do a ten minute discussion and that was more than enough for me.

I'm aiming for 20 minute presentation, and 10 for questions. The paper is 13 pages, plus some info that I didn't put in the paper that I want to throw out there about ALEC and suchlike.