I had one class where we had no lectures, no direction, just the book and an exam. Nobody responded to emails despite multiple attempts but at least somebody graded the exams. And of course sent an email once they were graded. It felt like a "fuck you" email not because of the tone but because it showed that the prof wasn't dead and their email still worked. Now at least living in Europe that cost nothing but it still sucked

I wish I could go the place, where all people who don't believe these stories come from. Sounds like a dream. I consider myself lucky with the professors I had, but I also had a fair share of bottom feeding trash.

Did you really never have a terrible prof?

I had a calc prof in uni that literally just read his slides in a monotone voice. I had already taken a calc course that I could have used at a college so didn't even need the credit, but wanted to understand better. At the end of the course, my understanding was way down.

I'd say arguing that people are lazy for not using their textbooks and example questions is missing the mark entirely. The complaint is that profs do nothing.. you can buy a textbook and practice questions for a lot less than $27,000.

There are plenty of exploitative “schools” out there which make big promises, cost big money, and then do shit like this.

The rub is that they cost less than real university, so that is sometimes people’s only option.

When you live in a society that actively discourages education because they don’t want citizens to realize how bad they’re getting robbed by capitalism, you don’t make it cheap or free to go to school. They want to ensure the only smart ones are already so ingrained into the system (by way of being able to afford the education) that they’d never betray it, or risk upending their comfortable lifestyle.

You know, like Lords and Ladies