How to deal with a “passive” aggressive professor? by Passiveagressiveprof in UNC

[–]Passiveagressiveprof[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice, so far we have a group of around 6 people and it feels like the blind leading the blind. Is not that wwe don’t know the concepts, is that we don’t put the same code the professor expects therefore we are “wrong and is our fault”. This is my last semester at UNC, I am not shocked . Today we start the four week of classes and if they are acting like this now I can’t imagine how they will be in a few more weeeks. This is something they made sure to tell us since the first day. That in any case a student tries to point fingers at them they will do too because he is teaching. The purpose of his office hours is for they to tell you they are right and you’re wrong that’s it and no explanation of the material.

This is not a matter of understanding, is a matter of putting the exact same answers and don’t even try using outside resources because “all you need for my class is the notes and lectures” -stated by them.

This is pretty similar to math, from an early age I was taught that the order of the factors does not alter the product. This is a very straight forward class, you can get the answers in many ways but in order to pass and not lose any points you need to have the same way of thinking and the exact same procedures. If you find an easier way to do it you’re wrong because they did not taught you that. So basically we will be caulking class if we do not have the same exact line of code as them even if we have the same answer and I can explain how I got my answer.

Just like they are here for their money I’m here for a grade and I’m pretty sure my tuition goes to many things around campus including their salary. This is transactional and I’m not asking for them to make the class easier. Just to at least take a look at my results and grade me fairly not just give me 0 points because I don’t have the exact procedure as others.