Why are some Professors so weird?
You failed a class and you're blaming the teacher. Typically Republican.
Dr. Strange vs. Professor X. Who would win and why.?
The simplicity of this fight is again in the defense. If Strange could stop X's invasion of his mind long enough to get off a strong attack, then Strange wins. If he cannot defend against X's initial mind invasion...then X wins simply by putting Strange into a trance/coma/sleep.
Why are many college professors foreigners?
Many professors are from other countries because many PhD students are from other countries. Earning a PhD is difficult; it requires at least four years of hard work, and it’s not unusual for someone to spend five or six years in a PhD program because nowadays it’s necessary to have a few good publications when one enters the professorial job market.Only a very small percentage of people in the US are interested in earning a PhD. Salaries paid to professors are often no more than one could earn in the business world with a master’s degree. Earning a PhD in the US and working in an American university appeals to many people in other countries, and many bright, industrious people apply to American PhD programs and do very well in them.
Is it strange to tell a professor I am very close to that he is the loveliest person ever?
Strange?Perhaps.Unprofessional?To most people, yes.Even if you have a good relationship with professor, telling him that she is the “loveliest person ever” will make you look immature and unprofessional. Additionally, it may also put your professor in an awkward position where he has to report such comments to the department, thus (potentially) necessitating an investigation into his email communication, teaching style, etc. This, in turn, may lead the professor to minimally have his reputation tarnished, or perhaps be put on probation/let go.At the end of the semester, it may be polite to tell that professor that you’ve enjoyed hia class the most among others, or that you find his teaching style/topic/etc. to be very interesting, but calling him “lovely” will probably take the student-teacher relationship, his career, and your professional reputation down a path that may be better left unexplored.
Why are there so many foreign professors at college campuses?
This is a common complaint I heard when I was at UC Berkeley. The reason why a lot of universities have foreign instructors is because many of them are leaders and laureates in their field. They come to American universities like Berkeley because THEY want to learn, too, and top tier universities afford them opportunities and RESOURCES to do highly innovative research. I had a biochemistry professor who spoke with a heavy Chinese accent. Brilliant guy. Prolific research. Couldn't understand a damned thing he said. His specialty was DNA chemistry, and one day he was lecturing on the mechanics of DNA supercoiling, about something called a "riding number." So all in my notes, I had paragraphs about "riding numbers." Well, when I got home and read the chapter in my text, it was actually "WRITHING number", not "riding number." My advice would be to start or join a study group, take full advantage of office hours with a teaching assistant, and read the text ahead of the lecture. If your professors are email or IM savvy, I would also recommend corresponding that way. Even if you can't understand them when they talk, they are very likely to be highly eloquent and articulate with written words. And if you're not at a major university, and you are still having trouble understanding professors whose primary language is not English, bear in mind, a lot of smaller colleges have trouble attracting faculty. So if they're not in a lab curing cancer, they're teaching you because your school couldn't find anyone better. Again, try emailing these profs, so you don't have to try to decipher them through a thick accent.
Why are there so many foreign math professors teaching at colleges?
In the USA basic math education in elementary schools is terrible. Most elementary teachers are unqualified to teach math (they choose education as a major because it has no math or science prerequisites at all.) The curricula in common use are almost all based on the “spiral” model which tried to cover every topic every year so it is always superficial and rushed; this model has been shown to be bad by comparative studies but it is in the common system , books expectations, and tests and is very hard to root out. Math anxiety and math phobia become epidemic; students catch them from their teachers as well as the general culture. Say “I’m studying math” in a group and listen to the violent negativity. In high school in the US, students can opt out of serious math early, often as early as Grade 9. They can graduate from high school, and many do, with a Grade 10 basic math class as their highest level. By the time they enter university, there is a very small pool of students left who are good in math. Of those of course many go into engineering or IT or other STEM fields. The number left majoring in math s tiny. So the pool of people applying for grad school math and going onto the professorship trail is tiny. Grad schools fill up with foreign students — many of them very good but that us not the point. We are simply not reaching and training people who could be good at math, and we lose them at such a young age it’s impossible to catch up.
What are some weird facts about your college professors?
A2A:I am not yet in college, so I hope I can get away with sharing facts about my extremely weird high school chemistry teacher.I'm going to need a lot of bullet points for this....Without exaggerating, every student in the school I spoke with either dislikes or hates the man.The first time I ever saw him, he was half-dancing half-skipping towards the teacher's lounge.He once ripped an apple apart with his bare hands in the middle of class to settle a friendly dispute between two students. Juice squirted everywhere, including on me.On finals day, he had a very long, silent, hand-gesturing, lip-reading conversation with two friends of mine during the test. I frequently heard him talking to himself excitedly about nothing while grading papers.I saw a picture of him dressed up as "Dick-in-a-box guy" (Like the SNL skit) for Halloween. *cringe*For no reason at all, he would break out into an imaginary accent that sounded like a cross between German, French, Italian, and Russian while giving a lecture. He also often stood on top of a wooden stool while lecturing.He said the phrase "rock and roll" in some iteration at least once during every class. On the day before homecoming, he brought a furry kangaroo suit into class (thankfully not on him) and invited one of us to wear it to the dance.He accidentally gave students a search term for a research project that brought up pornographic images on google. Most of our tests were graded in crayon. Sometimes with smiley faces.Despite his horrible teaching style and strange behaviour, he apparently graduated from Brown University. Go figure. Needless to say, the entire class was a very strange experience. For many reasons.I could actually think of more facts about him if I really wanted to, but I'd better head to bed now.
Your College Professor; how long notice for exams?
How much notice does your profesor give before an exam? We get just two-days notice for exams in this calculus II course (and not the weekend, the middle of the week). I have been out of school for many years(!) and this seems very unusual to me. Is this strange? I also have no idea what percentage of my grade any exam is worth except that all exams are 75% of final grade. The first test maybe half the class (I'm tguessing) screwed up; but we had no* review* time*. So then he makes us feel like sh** and tells us basically since we suck so bad, (and with him being the good guy that he is) he will give us a chance to make up the grade as long as we supply a written explanation for our rotten performance (yup, I'm heavily paraphrasing). The thing is, I'm not a kid; and this is reaking havock on my schedule and my blood pressure. I know it is in my best interest to just shut up; but I am worried about losing my patience and saying something I regret.
Do you feel weird calling your Professor by his first name?
I had a professor in college, with whom I was very friendly and close, who always signed his e-mails by his first name. For most students, he wanted them to call him “professor,” but for those of us friendly with him, he wanted us to call him by his first name. I always avoided the issue by never even mentioning his name. I would start e-mails with “Greetings!” or just say “Hello!” when I saw him in passing. It was only after I graduated that I was able to call him by his first name, because I finally felt more like his peer than his student. I think some professors think that if they ask their students to call them by their first names, it will make them seem more friendly—and in the case of my professor, it was a genuine desire to be friendly. And think of it this way—isn’t it sometimes odd to you for people to call you Ms. Such-and-Such? Perhaps he finds it just as uncomfortable to be called “Professor” or “doctor” as you find it to call him “J.” My recommendation: Try calling him by his first name, and if it doesn’t work out, just don’t mention his name at all. It worked for me for three years!