Stupid Prof, prepare for a roasting

Oh the frustration. The anger. Urge... To smite... Overwhelming....

Anyone who has spoken to me anytime in the last three weeks knows how hacked off I am about Stupid Prof. No names, but suffice it to say that everyone in second year computer science hates the guy. He can't teach, he's oblivious to student needs, etc. I could go on for hours. Although the class isn't large at all (only 40 people or so) the vast majority of us are second years who only know some Java, yet he prattles on and on about the material without even bothering to explain the foundations of whatever we're talking about.

I have to fight the temptation to throw things at his head.

"Okay, so he can't teach. It's always easy to do well on work outside of class, right?" WRONG.

He doesn't understand that we're all taking 4 other courses at the same time and that we can't devote 100% of our time on his outlandishly complicated, poorly explained assignments.

The midterm was so long that half the class didn't even finish the questions. Let me tell you that binary conversions, although easy to do, can take an awful long time to finish and check over for mistakes. Take 4 binary conversions, two floating point representation conversions, a C to assembly language conversion, an assembly language program trace and some short answer questions and you do not have a 50 minute midterm. Thankfully I managed to get to every question, but I lost at least 9 marks because I didn't have time to check and of my answers. Needless to say, not a single person finished the test early.

Finally, ask him a question outside of class (email, bulletin board, etc) and he doesn't help. Standard answer, "Figure it out on your own." The T.A.'s for the class are no different.

I don't want to be spoonfed or coddled. But at least give us a fighting chance to do well in this course.

But when the class rep hands out those professor evaluation forms at the end of the term, he is getting the most scathing evaluation I can fit into that little comments section. Bento suggests writing "see attached" on the form and then stapling a 5 page report to it.

Now. I have two essays to write, four assignments to finish and a test to prepare for so I'm leaving this rant and Stupid Prof's assignment for later. *kicks mattress a few dozen times and pulls out English books*