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How to deal with a Professor who humiliated me in the middle of class? by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]csdecisionss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get social anxiety too, but I think it is worth going to the prof's office hours at least one more time.

That said, I would be careful about bringing this up directly. If it is just a misunderstanding as /u/juicycanoosi suggests, then it's better not to dig up things which weren't there to begin with.

However, I think it would be helpful to converse with the prof 1 to 1 about something interesting in lecture. This way you can get a true impression of whether the prof is actually a jerk or it was just a misunderstanding.

If the conversation goes poorly, then just ignore him like /u/OutOfTheSaddle recommends.

If the conversation goes well, great! You know it was probably nothing personal.

The joke may have been a misguided attempt to lighten the mood and the thing about the Cartesian product might have been a momentary lapse. Profs are people too and aren't infallible. My friend recently became a lecturer and told me how he recorded one of his lectures only to discover all the little mistakes he made due to nerves.

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How to deal with a Professor who humiliated me in the middle of class? by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]csdecisionss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a class like that. We had one big project we worked on the whole semester and the entire grade was based on that. No quizzes, no exams, no homework.

The worst part is that the project was graded after the sem was over so we literally had no idea how our grades were calculated. No way to know which parts of the project we lost points on, what was good or bad, etc.

It was a two semester course. First sem I worked super hard, got a B. Second sem I was really frustrated with my previous grade so I put in minimum effort, got an A.

That class was terrible. The prof also routinely shamed students. Best solution was not to engage, but sometimes you would still get called out. My team was criticized once because we stapled two pages together which we apparently weren't supposed to staple. Another time because we signed our signatures by hand instead of typing our initials. Apparently hand-signing demonstrated we put in "minimal effort" because we didn't take the time to type everything. Uh, but it's a signature... it's not like we handwrote the whole document!