The term is over, and I've handed in my grades, about which the less said the better. Which means a minor vacation of sorts, as I clean up a last few things before making a push to get some research lab stuff done during our paltry one-week spring break next week, before the start of the next term's classes.
One of those clean-up tasks involves picking up my student course comments for the term, which ought to be interesting. I just hope I fare better than Professor Socrates, though:
Socrates is a real drag, I don't know how in hell he ever got tenure. He makes students feel bad by criticizing them all the time. He pretends like he's teaching them, but he's really ramming his ideas down student's throtes. He's always taking over the conversation and hardly lets anyone get a word in.
He's sooo arrogant. One time in class this guy comes in with some real good perspectives and Socrates just kept shooting him down. Anything the guy said Socrates just thought he was better than him.
He always keeps talking about these figures in a cave, like they really have anything to do with the real world. Give me a break! I spend serious money for my education and I need something I can use in the real world, not some b.s. about shadows and imaginary trolls who live in caves.
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Best comment of the term: In response to a question asking about "The instructor's ability to stimulate thinking and encourage questions":
"There isn't time for questions, his lecture is timed perfectly to be one hour thirteen minutes long."
(For reference, the class block is 65 mintues...)
I love the socratic method. The sheer thrill of matching wits with a law professor who actually thinks that he is smarter than I am really gets my blood going, and the bigger the lecture hall the better. If you are going to do socratic, you had better be ready to bring it or you will be embarrassed in front of 200 people; of course that never happened to me.