I have in the past been an idiot and not applied myself. But when I did go back and really try I took two classes, each taught by the same professor, I should have failed but only his incompetence saved my grade. I ended up with two C’s because he didn’t collect work, didn’t follow the college’s rules for attendance or course materials and he bullshitted everyone’s grades.
He only talked about his work with a nonprofit and one tribe he worked with in the Amazon. This was an Soc 101 and Sex & Gender class. He told us up front he was only doing the classes for extra spending money and he never wanted to teach. He was everything a teacher shouldn’t be.
I couldn’t get interested in a class taught by someone who had checked out the day he agreed to teach the class. Adding to all of my problems with the class itself was the same exact issues @Sarcasm had in his class.
My professor was Polish with a THICK accent, students routinely talked amongst themselves to clarify what he had just said, and then continued with each other to get what he’d been saying while they were trying to figure out the last thing! I also learned mostly by lectures and notes and he only rambled about the Jacuna tribe, over and over and over.
I know more about them than I do anything that we were supposed to have covered in class. I didn’t do our two research papers for each class, I didn’t do the homework – I didn’t do anything. I didn’t know how to accomplish the tasks he gave us because of the way he taught.
I got a C in both classes because I was apparently forgettable in the group. Thank god.
I ended up lodging a complaint with the school.