/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.7236139]

>the professor is the "funny" professor

[Anonymous No.7236159]

>>7236139
You mean roger?
Yeah I know what you mean.

[Anonymous No.7236168]

>>7236139
fuck off anon

[Anonymous No.7236171]

>The professor is the "nutty professor"

[Anonymous No.7236173]

>>7236139
The ones that think they're funny are always the worst.

My dynamics professor last quarter was awful.

[Anonymous No.7236194]

>>7236159
nah his name is name is eddie

[Anonymous No.7236199]

>>7236139
Pretend that the jokes are intentionally bad and it's self-depreciating humor. That's how I stayed sane around my dad growing up.

[Anonymous No.7236216]

>>7236139
>the professor want his class to be "interactive"

[Anonymous No.7236256]

>>7236216
I TA for a prof who wants that in a class of over 100 students...it's sort of working to an extent, but it's only about 5 non-retards who voluntarily keep speaking up. It's actually great to see the dread on the faces of all the fags with crippling public speaking fears.

[Anonymous No.7236279]

>>7236216
If you want to learn shit you gotta ask questions.

[Anonymous No.7236301]

>>7236256
>It's actually great to see the dread on the faces of all the fags with crippling public speaking fears.
u r a fuk

[Anonymous No.7236303]

>the "funny professor"
>he's actually pretty funny and people enjoy the class more

[Anonymous No.7236312]

>socially awkward professor
>jokes about arcane shit
>extremely awkward first day as half of students are just barely nerdy enough to understand
>by the end of the term we're so accustomed to his bad jokes that we laugh at every one

[Anonymous No.7236318]

>>7236301
What? Degree holders are traditionally supposed to be leaders and good public speakers. I have no patience for autists who will never get a job requiring an interview anyway. I don't know why shy people bother to study STEM degrees at all.

[Anonymous No.7236321]

>tfw autistic and hate anything that isn't Math equations
>women on campus hate me because I'm good looking and ignore all of them

[Anonymous No.7236325]

>the 28 year old professor who talks about baseball and makes good jokes/quips about the subject and is a total bro

[Anonymous No.7236336]

> the professor who tells students to see their studies as playtime and let it stick.
> tje professor who just teaches most essential skills with a lot of commented exercise examples you can try going on your own and then do the exercises.

No one ever.

[Anonymous No.7236342]

>>7236321
>lying on the internet

Woman hate you because you're autistic and creepy.

[Anonymous No.7236347]

>>7236342

>projecting this hard

[Anonymous No.7236354]

>>7236321
>women on campus hate me because I'm good looking and ignore all of them
I know a few guys like you. Trust me, the women aren't too bent out of shape about it.

[Anonymous No.7236360]

>>7236347
Well meme'd my friend :^)

[Anonymous No.7236365]

>>7236360

>le epek fedora meme

[Anonymous No.7236368]

>>7236365
>le epek suave autistic meme

[Anonymous No.7236370]

>>7236318
The alure of science to shy people is easy to comprehend, though.

[Anonymous No.7236376]

>>7236368

>suave autistic

meme'd hard

[Anonymous No.7236389]

I get it, /sci/ is full of autism and autism doesn't let you understand jokes.

>>7236199
>That's how I stayed sane around my dad growing up.
What are you talking about? dad jokes are unironically awesome.

[Anonymous No.7236420]

>>7236173

>>7236139
>>7236173
If you don't find the funny professor funny you either hate the thing you're studying and should drop out, or you're too much of an autist to ever contribute positively to STEM, so drop out

[Anonymous No.7236435]

>>7236370
Yes, unfortunately it's wrong, you need to be very charismatic to succeed in STEM.

The only places where being shy is OK is for technicians and technologists, which is where the stereotype comes from.

[Anonymous No.7236449]

>>7236435

>tfw very shy and introverted
>stereotypical freeze up and feel like vomiting/cant breathe when I talk in front of groups of people
>even if they're all friends it's hard
>want to do either STEM or pursue a humanity to the doctorate level and become a professor
>know that i'm fucked in both ways

[Anonymous No.7236464]

>>7236435
>you need to be very charismatic to succeed in STEM.
Seems far-fetched. Is it really that way for you Americans with your STEM?

[Anonymous No.7236467]

>>7236347
>>7236360
>>7236365
>>7236368
>>7236376
MEME MEME MEME MEME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME

Am I cool on the internet now?

[Anonymous No.7236491]

>>7236420
LELELELE FUNNAY PROFESSOR WHO SPENDS 20 MINUTES OF CLASS TIME TALKING ABOUT FUNNAY THINGS.

fuck off retard, they are the worst professors in my experience.

[Anonymous No.7236502]

>>7236491

that's not the kind of professor we're talking about but good job proving that you're a sperg

[Anonymous No.7236516]

>professor calls you an edgy contrarian

[Anonymous No.7236525]

>>7236354
> Trust me, the women aren't too bent out of shape about it.
>> butthurting

Me too and yeah, they are pretty bent and their attempts to mask their insecurities are clear to anyone who's not a social outcast with zero social skills.

[Anonymous No.7236531]

>>7236464
Yes. 70% of a typical American education regime is focused around developing social skills since western society depends on it so heavily.

>if you aren't smart you should at least sound smart

[Anonymous No.7236532]

>>7236516
>professor is a radical feminist, AND a vegetarian

Needless to say she almost failed me because I stood against her ideals in my argumentative final essay

[Anonymous No.7236550]

>linear algebra prof is like 80 years old
>jokes about one direction

[Anonymous No.7236553]

>>7236139

Man, my physics professor this semester was one of these.

Her jokes would fall so flat like 90% of the time. It was painful.

[Anonymous No.7236555]

>>7236553
>physics prof
>her
i see why

[Anonymous No.7236561]

>>7236464
I'm not American.

Everything in life is a popularity contests whether you know it or not. Even in academia studies show departments hire people they'd like to work with for Assistant professorships rather than the "best" candidate.

In industry work is 90% networking, admin and yelling at lazy/incompetent people.


If you aren't handsome and extroverted. Work on both or die.

[Anonymous No.7236563]

>>7236553
Why didn't you or anyone else tell her to shut up? I mean subtly of course, but I see no reason why you should put up with that

[Anonymous No.7236571]

>itt engineers complain about people with personality.

The best professors in math and physics are funny ones. A sense of humor correlates directly to intelligence.

[Anonymous No.7236574]

>>7236571
No, it correlates with a sad miserable life, one where you have to quip constantly just to get through the day

[Anonymous No.7236576]

>That one lecture who doesn't shut the fuck up about his family.
>The only thing you take from his lectures is that he some how isn't a virgin.

[Anonymous No.7236581]

>>7236571
No is complaining about having a sense of humour, the complaint is that they are not funny and just sound like sperglords who are waisting everyone's time.

There are good profs who can pull off actually being funny, usually without disrupting the lecture.

[Anonymous No.7236593]

>Professor: This class isn't a lecture but a workshop type of class. In other words, you'll be interacting with a group every class time.

[Anonymous No.7236602]

>that professor that spends 20 minutes of the lecture talking about the latest gadgets
>proceeds to gloss over major topics before finishing with a life story about how he used to be in the military

[Anonymous No.7236623]

>that statistics professor whose life story you piece together over the semester from self-deprecating mumbles, who wanted to do maths but couldn't hack it

[Anonymous No.7236625]

>>7236602
One of my lecturers had plenty of stories since he used to design missiles for the government.

But instead of telling us how he nearly killed a general due to malfunction, he tells us about his family

[Anonymous No.7236639]

>>7236550
>algebra prof is old chinese man
>jokes about justin bieber

[Anonymous No.7236642]

>>7236602
Haha who is this guy? He looks like a hybrid of Will Smith and that guy from Seinfeld.

[Anonymous No.7236643]

>>7236639
Fucking conformists, hope they burn in hell.

[Anonymous No.7236810]

>>7236449

fuck off

[Anonymous No.7236838]

>be me
>be ee student
>have my uncle as the career directo
>take class with him
>90% of the class we spend it listening his jokes and stories.
>constantly picks on me.
Halp

[Anonymous No.7236855]

>>7236532
good show

anyway:
>professor spends the majority of class time trying to encourage everyone to "get a feel for" calculus
>he doesn't do any proofs
>launched into an anecdote about how his son is an engineer and he doesn't understand his son's homework
>"do we really need to teach this? just use wolfram alpha"

[Anonymous No.7237070]

>>7236420
You're a retard. He thought his cheap wisecracks were an acceptable substitute for actual teaching.

He would lecture for maybe five minutes each class and then do one massive, completely unintelligible example problem for the remaining 45 minutes of class, telling us to look stuff up on our own time along the way.

[Anonymous No.7237091]

>>7236139
What's the fucking problem with that? I actually appreciate my teachers trying to be funny because its like they are actually trying to get along with the students instead of being a sad ihatemyjob douchebag like the 80%

[Anonymous No.7237098]

>>7236435
What if I'm shy but have a big dick?

[Anonymous No.7237106]

>>7236855
That's what tenure do.

[Anonymous No.7237110]

>>7236139
Better than the professor who thinks they're a cool hard ass, but is really just obtuse and condescending.

[Anonymous No.7237648]

>That professor that is a hardass and fails 20 out of the 40 students

[Anonymous No.7237662]

>>7237648

why do professor's do this?

are they just sadistic cunts or is there some monetary incentive? they act like they benefit from fucking people over.

[Anonymous No.7237673]

>>7237662
maybe their students suck and he's sick of professors passing people who suck?

[Anonymous No.7237683]

>>7237662

I had one like that at a CC. It was a pre-Calculus course, and the professor took points just because it wasn't done his way. Furthermore, he was rude and told people they were stupid.

[Anonymous No.7237694]

>>7237662
bruh they do help people by failing half the class

they help the top half of the class.

>go to school with reputation for BTFO'ing freshman fags and wannabes within the two years
>slug it out, graduate with 3.8 GPA
>employers all on my dick

[Anonymous No.7237695]

>>7236139

>professor is a quirky sperglord who loves teaching

10/10 best professor, they'll probably extend their hours just to make sure you make it through the course.

>professor is a sperglord android who loathes humankind

Prepare for betrayal at the first opportunity.Oh what's that? Your car exploded and you couldn't make it to class? Fuck you, enjoy your zero.

[Anonymous No.7237706]

>>7237683
I had a TA that graded me wrong when it was right.

See, let A and B be expressions. I wrote:

-A = -B

And she said it was a wrong concept, and it should have been

A = B

and graded it as two mistakes. Like, fuck.

[Anonymous No.7237707]

>>7237673
>>7237694


Dunning-Kruger effect, elitism indicates incompetence. You must pat yourself on the back every time you wipe your ass with that attitude.

[Anonymous No.7237709]

>That professor who cancels the class because he's waiting in line for the next iPhone release.

[Anonymous No.7237723]

>>7237707
>I-I failed the class
>clearly this means I'm smart and people who passed j-just s-suffer from dunning-kruger!!

[Anonymous No.7237724]

>>7237648

>mfw teacher evaluation survey

Did you really think you could subject me to your bullshit and get away with it scott-free?

Yes, keep acting all polite as you leave the room. I will remind the entire class of all the counts of bullshit you pulled the second that door closes.

Every shitty professor I ever had gets booted the following semester. I should have majored in slander.

[Anonymous No.7237729]

>>7237707
You underage faggots here today are fucking annoying. No one cares about your shitty highschool "math"

[Anonymous No.7237730]

>>7237723

>failing classes

Nice projection, I'd sooner start a class action law-suit than fail a class. Eating shit is your job.

[Anonymous No.7237733]

>the professor wants their class to be a reverse classroom

[Anonymous No.7237736]

>>7237694

>acting like a hot-shot with a math/science degree

You're a lab monkey, not a CEO.

If you wanted money you should have done something else.

[Anonymous No.7237740]

>>7237733
>a reverse classroom
sounds sexy

[Anonymous No.7237741]

>>7237736
Jokes on you, I majored in CS

>in b4 i'm so sorry

[Anonymous No.7237748]

>>7237741

oh nice, a job where you sit on your ass more and get colorectal cancer, sweet!

Was declining health part of your plan?

At least it explains the elitism, you have to fix retard problems all the time. If anything I feel sorry for you.

[Anonymous No.7237749]

>>7237748
>implying you know what a CS degree is

[Anonymous No.7237751]

>>7237733

this is actually helpful though.

I've had PhD's tell me that they didn't fully understand the material until they started teaching it. Being able to recite a formula and plug-in is different that having full mastery of the material.

[Anonymous No.7237762]

>>7237724
>the professor has tenure

[Anonymous No.7237768]

>>7237694
>>7237673

fucking this. grade inflation is rampant in and they're taking a stand against it to protect the credibility of their university. they aren't just good for their students, they're good for their institution in the long run

if you don't understand the course materials you deserve your F. passing you would mean that every course that is meant to build on it has to get watered down for the idiots who got there without knowing what the hell they were doing

[Anonymous No.7237769]

>professor is blatantly gay
>have to watch him fling his wrists around and half-lisp during lecture
>still hasn't come out
>no tolerance policy on pressuring or otherwise engaging teachers on such matters

[Anonymous No.7237776]

>>7237768

What do you consider the drop rate should be for a good professor? I have a linear algebra class where nobody dropped and everyone has As or Bs. I have a Calculus II class where four people dropped and the class average is a C.

[Anonymous No.7237800]

>>7237768

but it's not their responsibility to deny their students opportunities. Universities determine their selectivity prior to registration.

If anything, failing a bunch of would-be students just reduces funding to that major. Less students = less money.

Nobody cares about how many functioning autists made it through the death-race.

[Anonymous No.7237801]

>that community college professor that keeps mentioning his kid is a Harvard grad

[Anonymous No.7237805]

>>7237768

>grade inflation is rampant

sauce on this would be nice.

[Anonymous No.7237812]

>the senile old woman professor who can't do a single example problem without making 5 mistakes

[Anonymous No.7237815]

>that professor who got mad that I got a 105, so the next test he goes around me to check that I wasn't cheating.

[Anonymous No.7237888]

>>7237768

>Need class for barely-related major, literally all I need to graduate

>Professor assumes everyone's going to be a lab technician at Berkeley

>Fucks me over at every opportunity

>Get a C-

>Takes a final shit on my otherwise spotless GPA just to be a cunt

There's no reason for this and you know it.

[Anonymous No.7237911]

There is nothing good about "failing" a class.

The goal should always be to teach a predefined amount of material, if everyone gets it everyone should pass with an A.

[Anonymous No.7237916]

>>7236321
Bazinga!

[Anonymous No.7237919]

>>7236602
I had a professor like that and he fucking sucked. He never had time to finish his lectures for obvious reasons.

[Anonymous No.7238185]

>>7237098
You'll never get to whip it out. Even if you do, you won't, because
> shy
thus ruining everything and telling yourself it's the last time you attempted to get it.

Cause it is important, if you don't know that too. The only way to succeed in STEM is through bed.

[Anonymous No.7238186]

>the professor is the crazy old bearded man that loves his field more than his children

[Anonymous No.7238194]

>>7238186
> implying he's not proper

[Anonymous No.7238214]

>>7236318
Jobs exist that don't require interviews? Is

[Anonymous No.7238220]

>>7236525
for someone who doesn't care you seem awfully keen on defending yourself about it on an anonymous image board.

[Anonymous No.7238232]

One of my professor was the "funny" professor until I spoke with him face to face, he turned out to be aggressive and easy to anger for no reason. It surprised me a lot.

[Anonymous No.7238246]

>>7238220
Pinpoint me please where I defend myself. I was simply stating the fact.

[Anonymous No.7238288]

/sci/ posters are delusional contrarians who believe that top mathematicians and physicists who spend 12+hrs per day staring at equations, fucking with lab equipment, and generally only doing things that increase their Aspergers also somehow have the social skills of top level politicians and socialites.

inb4 Feymann, who from what I've seen basically had the social presence of your annoying, overly outgoing uncle and is only held in such high regard because he was the first physicist to manage to hold a conversation without staring at his shoelaces.

Show me a top STEM researcher with Bill Clinton level social skills. Fact: you can't, because excelling at nerd shit like physics experiments and excelling at normalfag shit like socializing are diametrically opposed goals. If you decide to go beyond mediocrity in one area, you will damage your ability to do well in the other. Sorry to ruin your fantasy.

STEM charismatic is still aspie as fuck by normal person standards and only a STEM autist would be unable to recognize this.

[Anonymous No.7238298]

>>7238220
>i am attractive and this is a fact

[Anonymous No.7238300]

>>7236623
kek

[None !!BJiYgff8zf2 No.7238316]

>>7238288
>the social presence of your annoying, overly outgoing uncle

same could be said of any politician

[Anonymous No.7238318]

>>7238288
>Show me a top STEM researcher with Bill Clinton level social skills
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Richard Dawkins
Jacob Barnett
Stephen Hawking
Michio Kuku

[Anonymous No.7238335]

>>7238318
Yes to Degrassi Tyson Richard Dawkins Jacob Dr Harold white Stephen Hawkings maybe because he is a vegetable at this point and kuku

[Anonymous No.7238343]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnMMirZBMlc

[Anonymous No.7238362]

>>7236855
He's right though, getting a feel for calculus is more important than trying to memorize integral tables and proofs.

[Anonymous No.7238364]

>>7237648
Maybe because the students are not up to standards?

It's ridiculous how everyone always assume it's somehow the professors fault, if 20 students could pass so could the other 20 if they worked harder.

[Anonymous No.7238374]

>>7237730
>I'd sooner start a class action law-suit than fail a class.
What's your case? I'm a dumbfuck why don't people hand me degrees :(

Kill yourself. You aren't entitled to a pass just because you paid for a course.

[Anonymous No.7238379]

>>7237724
No one actually cares about the evaluation survey, it doesn't effect the professor at all.

It's just there to make students feel like they have rights.

[Anonymous No.7238380]

>>7237768
Trurth

[Anonymous No.7238382]

>>7237800
>Universities determine their selectivity prior to registration.
Admission does not mean you should be handed a degree, the dropout rate has always been 50+%.

>Nobody cares about how many functioning autists made it through the death-race.

Accreditation committees do. You want your degree to count for something and allow you to legally work in the profession? Gonna have to fail the retards.

[Anonymous No.7238383]

>>7237805
>>7237391

It's pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.7238385]

>>7238214
In Chemical Engineering it's been known to happen that people get a job without interview because often there is only a single applicant and the company is desperate.

[Anonymous No.7238388]

>>7238288
>MUH JUST WORLD WHERE EVERYONE HAS A SPECIAL SKILL

Social skills do not take a lot of effort to maintain in the first place. In addition academics do more public speaking than politicians. Socialites have a specific social skill, but they're actually pretty shit at adapting and outside their comfort zone (and yes, when you're constantly in the "party" scene it becomes your comfort zone) they are exposed for the retards they are and can't hold a proper conversation.

[Anonymous No.7238391]

>>7238385
True... true...

[Anonymous No.7238392]

>>7238391
It's coming to an end though...the field is becoming oversatured thanks to retard unis popping out more grade inflated students.

[Anonymous No.7238395]

>>7238392
That's why I specialized in stock market trading while I was busily working away with my factory xp

Lex luthorism here i come

[Anonymous No.7238414]

>>7238395
I just want to make 10 mil before I turn 30 so I can enjoy a comfortable life in academia.

I'm thinking about starting a small chem production company then stealing from my investors before jumping ship.

[Anonymous No.7238530]

>>7237888

This. I could understand if this was third year classes, but if it's an introductory class or a remedial class then I don't see why the professor is a cunt.

[Anonymous No.7238537]

>>7238364

Or they learned a certain way then when they apply that way they get fucked because professor only accepts one way.

[Anonymous No.7238567]

>>7238537
Except if you let that happen it's your own fault, if you actually do have a correct answer then you will always get the grades, if not you can get the student representative council to bring your case to a disciplinary committee.

But you won't because you probably did something wrong and you just don't want to admit that you made mistakes.

[Anonymous No.7238582]

>tfw you're the shit group member

sorry guys, i had no friends or acquaintances all through uni, sat alone in every class, and we're in the final year. How could you expect me to put in any effort at this stage?

[Anonymous No.7238594]

>the professor is the "funny" professor and the extremely rigorous professor at the same time

[Anonymous No.7238665]

>that professor that is the funny professor, but then overhear him call you an idiot to other people

He was my intro to C++ professor. I dropped the course after the midterm and didn't even check what I got on it.

[Anonymous No.7238682]

>the purpose of this class is to separate the wheat from the chaff

[Anonymous No.7238693]

>>7238682
That's a proper professor, if he isn't setting you realistic expectations what's the point?

[Anonymous No.7238697]

>>7238682
Wheat has gluten, and gluten is bad :^)

[Anonymous No.7238711]

>>7236171
Underrated

[Anonymous No.7238859]

> the professor is a hypersexual sociopath, penetrates every single cute vag you might've had a crush on, absolutely free of charge in every meaning of this phrase

[Anonymous No.7238872]

>The real analysis professor is a grandmotherly old woman

[Anonymous No.7238875]

>that prof who doesnt give a fuck and constantly farts during lecture

[Anonymous No.7238879]

>>7238875
Additional info: The first row is always empty

[Anonymous No.7238881]

>>7238875
guy sounds amazing

who does he teach?

[Anonymous No.7239112]

>>7238388
>Muh fantasy land where a race of peak humans have elite level skills at science, socializing, sports, and dozens of other things

>Social skills do not take a lot of effort to maintain in the first place.
They do. Stay inside fucking around with math equations and physics textbooks for a week. Do not talk to anyone. After a week, go outside and try to hold a conversation. See what happens.

> Socialites have a specific social skill, but they're actually pretty shit at adapting and outside their comfort zone (and yes, when you're constantly in the "party" scene it becomes your comfort zone) they are exposed for the retards they are and can't hold a proper conversation.
Yeah, somehow people who spend their entire lives socializing are worse at it than aspie mathematicians who spend their lives jacking off to latex printouts of various equations. Makes perfect sense.

[Anonymous No.7239122]

>>7239112
>Muh fantasy land where a race of peak humans have elite level skills at science, socializing, sports, and dozens of other things
Muh ad absurdum. As the guy said, social skills are trivial, pretty much like riding on a bicycle, science does require effort and intelligence. But you're too butthurt to even seriously consider posts that tap on your insecurities - which a lot of posts.
> They do. Stay inside fucking around with math equations and physics textbooks for a week. Do not talk to anyone. After a week, go outside and try to hold a conversation. See what happens.
Is this guy seriously autistic or is it really how normal people are like? Good thing I'm a psychopath then.

[Anonymous No.7239123]

>"I very rarely give out As"

[Anonymous No.7239130]

>>7239112
Oh yeah, and this gem
> Yeah, somehow people who spend their entire lives socializing
People are retards. Especially humanitarians. If they ever learn it's always the hard way, so they don't do anything outside of their safe zone, just good old rituals, operating on the same algorithms they adopted from the rest of the herd by early twenties.

[Anonymous No.7239134]

>>7236171
undderrated post

[Anonymous No.7239142]

>>7239122
>Muh ad absurdum. As the guy said, social skills are trivial, pretty much like riding on a bicycle, science does require effort and intelligence. But you're too butthurt to even seriously consider posts that tap on your insecurities - which a lot of posts.
They're trivial if you're a STEM aspie who thinks that being socially adept to not horrifically embarrass yourself every time that you leave the house is the same as charisma. Like anything else, social interaction is an art that requires thousands and thousands and thousands of hours to excel at. Imagine yourself, Bill Clinton, and a crowd of random people in a room. You try to convince everyone to take one course of action, and Bill Clinton tries to convince everyone to do the opposite. What do you think the outcome will be? Bill will wreck your shit, because he's got more talent, more time spent practicing, and is probably just genetically superior to you in terms of social interaction. So much for the triviality of social skills.

[Anonymous No.7239158]

>>7239112
>Stay inside fucking around with math equations and physics textbooks for a week. Do not talk to anyone. After a week, go outside and try to hold a conversation. See what happens.

Actually met my current girlfriend at the gym after a week of isolation doing simulations at the lab, even at the gym the icebreaker was me behaving like an autist thinking about a problem before I seamlessly switched back into charisma mode which ended with a coffee. You have to be pretty fucking retarded to forget such a basic human nature as talking to people, especially in a "week".

>Yeah, somehow people who spend their entire lives socializing are worse at it than aspie mathematicians who spend their lives jacking off to latex printouts of various equations.
That's not what I said is it faggot? Are you really stupid enough to think "social skills" is one size fits all? Do you really think a club slut will charm upper class people at a black tie prestige function or impress a room full of academics?

[Anonymous No.7239163]

>>7239142
>social interaction is an art that requires thousands and thousands and thousands of hours to excel at.
Or you could read a communications textbook. Smart people can pick up knowledge and skill faster. That is the very definition of intelligence. If you think people who study some light party school major will somehow magically be guaranteed to be more charismatic because they spend more time drinking with their idiot friends you are gravely mistaken.

[Anonymous No.7239168]

>>7239142

I'm much more handsome and taller than Bill Clinton and 50% of Americans don't hate my guts so I think I'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.7239171]

>>7239130
Truth. This is how 90% of the population live out their lives.

[Anonymous No.7239177]

Fact: social skills peak at 120-125 IQ. If you're smart enough to be a top scientist, you're probably too smart for max social skills.

[Anonymous No.7239185]

>>7239177
>Fact:
Then why is everything that followed your colon unsubstantiated bullshit?

[Anonymous No.7240066]

>>7236516
This never happened

[Anonymous No.7240104]

>>7237769
why are you so pissed off about that? you need to work out your issues, dude

[Anonymous No.7240125]

>>7238318

>Michio Kaku
nonononono https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnMMirZBMlc

[Anonymous No.7240140]

>>7237706

Undergrad TAs are literal retards, that's not news to anyone.

[Anonymous No.7240148]

>>7237769

Public shaming of homophobia is a very new development. The guy grew up in a different time and still holds on to that.

[Anonymous No.7240171]

Not from university, but my high school calculus teacher failed me on an exam for using L'Hopital's Rule on indeterminate trig limits, they weren't even worth near half the damn exam; even after I told him I had studied up to Calc III + LA material on my own.

I wanted to tell him that sneaky, yet simple algebraic manipulations weren't calculus, but knew that he was just following the curriculum.
At least he did proofs, and derived everything.

My professors in university were all reasonable, and fine with any 'shortcut' I used as long as it was valid.

[Anonymous No.7240177]

Math prof (several classes), older mexican immigrant, constantly makes racial jokes and sexist comments. Asks students where their from first weeks of each class, proceeds to mock wherever it is. Alternates between humorous and harassment, regularly takes it too far. Kids who havent taken him before always look stunned and offended. Everyone thinks they can report him to someone. Plot twist when they find out he's department chair and has almost no oversight. I might have some old recordings of his class if anyones interested

[Anonymous No.7240430]

>>7240177
Sounds interesting

[Anonymous No.7240448]

>>7239142
> They're trivial if you're a STEM aspie who thinks that being socially adept to not horrifically embarrass yourself every time that you leave the house is the same as charisma.
Jesus Christ does anyone get more pathetic than that? Have you even ever been to STEM faculties? Highly doubt it, cause you would know, that they are perfectly normal people, usually smarter and more adept at applied psychology, than, say, psychology majors.
> Like anything else, social interaction is an art that requires thousands and thousands and thousands of hours to excel at
> Like anything else
> social interaction is an art
> that requires thousands and thousands and thousands of hours to excel at
Good, so you are a special kind of idiot, settled that. I mean wow. Shouldn't you be on facebook posting selfies/setting status to "thinking about the universe and our purpose"?
> Imagine yourself, Bill Clinton, and a crowd of random people in a room. You try to convince everyone to take one course of action, and Bill Clinton tries to convince everyone to do the opposite.
ANOTHER ad absurdum. This guy. Well. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to win people over, since he's already owned because of the sex incident. If I'm in this position, wouldn't I also have spent lots of time preparing speeches and learning how to play the crowd? Unless you mean debating him at his best time, remaining my current status of a th. physics undergrad, in which case bravo, you proved your load of bullshit I hear everyday from pretentious blue collar workers and 2deep bimbos, working in cubicles.

[Anonymous No.7240473]

>>7236318
I used to be pretty shy when I was in high school, and my first job was in customer service. I got over my shyness by thinking "it is my job to talk to this customer" every time I had to talk to a customer. After a while, I got pretty good at it, and I began to convincingly sound like I cared about their problems. To this day, whenever I have an interview or have to speak in front of a crowd, I just put on my customer service face, and go for it. The rest of the time, I'm usually pretty quiet, but that's not because I'm afraid of talking to people, it's just because I don't have anything good to say.

[Anonymous No.7240477]

>>7240177
Im interested in hearing those old clips. My favorite kind of teachers.

[Anonymous No.7240484]

>>7237741
I started as a CS major... but after sitting in poorly air conditioned computer lab for hours surrounded by the foulest smelling Indians and Asians on Earth I switched majors. Glad I did. Learned it is about the money but quality work environment is also quite important.

[Anonymous No.7240754]

>>7236256
>It's actually great to see the dread on the faces of all the fags with crippling public speaking fears.
fuck off normie

[Anonymous No.7240788]

>>7236159
>>7236194

this "meme" has never been funny, and it never will be

[Anonymous No.7240789]

>>7236216

This worked for me because we used some quiz system (kahoot) where it would display the top 5 contestants. The reason I was prepared for every class was so I could get my joke name on the top 1 spot

[Anonymous No.7240793]

>>7240754
> fuck off normie
Jokes on you, I'm a sociopath.

[Anonymous No.7240803]

>>7238665
>unable to handle c++ on your course load
thats impressive.

[Anonymous No.7240819]

>>7236389
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.7241270]

>>7237916
kek

[Anonymous No.7241272]

>the professor has a heavy foreign accent, speaks quietly, and never faces the class

[Anonymous No.7241277]

>>7238665
I work in a uni maths dept, and I can say with certainty this almost never happens, unless you are incredibly obnoxious. A prof could lose grant funding for something like that.

[Anonymous No.7241278]

>>7241272
Probably from /r9k.

[Anonymous No.7241638]

>>7237724
My name isn't important

[Anonymous No.7241640]

>>7238379
bullshit.
Evaluation surveys are used during for choosing to give tenure

[Anonymous No.7241662]

>>7236642
Actually, it is a morphing of the two. You can get one of those just by googling it.

[Anonymous No.7241674]

>>7241272
Sounds like my Rocket Propulsion professor. Dude was ancient.

[Anonymous No.7241730]

>>7238682

It was a community college.

[Anonymous No.7241808]

>>7241730
I meant
>>7241277

[Anonymous No.7241850]

>>7236321
>I'm good looking

[Anonymous No.7241859]

>>7236516
>Professor is condescending and insult students if given the chance
>If he thinks a question is below him only responds with sarcasm
>Everyone loves him
Why?

[Anonymous No.7241883]

>>7241859
Do you go to Fedora Sperglord University at Autism?

No one likes a professor like that. Colleagues only tolerate them because of their academic contribution.

[Anonymous No.7241886]

>>7240793
oh so that's why your posts are all so edgy

[Anonymous No.7241892]

>>7241883
No people actually like him, when I ask why they tell me that "he may be an asshole but is a lovable asshole!" I seriously don't understand.

[Anonymous No.7241900]

>>7241892
Maybe because you're too harsh on him, he could insult some kids but when they see him for consultation he gives out candy or something

[Anonymous No.7242007]

>be spic
>have optional French courses at uni
>French professor is a chill as fuck dude and swears a lot with your local slang with a French accent

[Anonymous No.7242039]

>>7241892

those kids are probably doing well in the class.

[Anonymous No.7242070]

>>7236139
>the professor who listens to Mark Levine too much

[Anonymous No.7242385]

>>7238374

In a perfect world where all teachers teach the content competently, honestly, and efficiently, sure. If one has half a class of fuckwits, they should get the grade they deserve.

All that goes out the window the moment you realize some professors truly don't care about their students or derive pleasure from failing kids because they can.

I'd argue that philosophically, learning an average amount of content relative to the class should represent an average grade. Course content is usually static, randomness nearly guarantees a representative and average student sample, and classes usually are not new. If students failed to learn, the one variable in the room is the professor.

So as a school, how do you protect against shitty or sadistic professors? Enforced curve. No shit you're not entitled to a pass, that's not what the curve's for.

Lastly, all A's are seen as equal. An A in Dr. "Gives no homework or exams" Hanson's math class is treated as equal to Dr. Failum's class. Even if Failum teaches 30x harder (and maybe better), the lack of differentiation of A's hurts students who would benefit most from his style, those ambitious enough to make a good faith effort in a hard class.

Enforced curves also allow professors who truly care to push students to the field's limits without having to worry whether their content is too intense: the curve will sort that out for them.

So curves are a good thing. Fail the kids who didn't learn it, but leave the rest alone.

[Anonymous No.7242467]

>tfw Geology

This place is called Double Breasted Cay btw

[Anonymous No.7242991]

>have a professor who looks like a 14 year old boy, when he really is 30

[Anonymous No.7243004]

>math professor lessons are the epitome of boring lessons
>he projects a pdf studybook on the wall and reads what's written there
>he just reads exactly what's written in there
>halfway trough the lesson, he tells a joke or shows a few minute long cartoon from youtube
>continues reading pdf out loud

[Anonymous No.7243020]

>Those professors who force stupid kids to answer questions

Sometimes I feel like I ditch class for good reasons.

[Anonymous No.7243044]

>>7242467
Is teal your prof? If so he/she is based, like a modern Feynman

[Anonymous No.7243068]

>>7241859
Because being bad is advantageous from the evolutionary perspective - tl;dr: chicks dig him, guys respect and wanna be like him. I bet he doesn't let any cute pussy go by.

[Anonymous No.7243070]

>>7241886
Jelly? I'm egdy at uni too and I get away with it.