The hits just keep coming...

Oh wow. Seriously, I've written two entries about this professor of mine, and I thought that was enough...but apparently not. Today we had another professor and a grad student come in and administer and talk about a study they were doing. The grad student came in first to give us the exercises, and he happened to be Chinese. Now, being Chinese, he had a bit of an accent. The exercise involved looking at pictures of guys and rating them. When the grad student was explaining the exercise, he referred to the pictures as images, but like I said, he had a bit of an accent, so he pronounced it more like "ee-madjes" (that's the closest I can think to represent it, phoenetically). It was obvious, though, that he was saying images because we've been discussing IMAGES IN THE FUCKING MEDIA (sorry, she's really starting to annoy me), and he said he would be displaying them on the screen. Duh. So before we're about to start, what does my professor ask him? "Um, would you explain what e-matches are?" OH MY FUCKING GOD. This is a woman who goes on and on (I mean, she teaches classes about it...) about displays, perceptions, and images of different races in media and seems to be big on awareness, etc. She also seems to love mentioning the 50 fucking different foreign countries she's lived in or whatever because she brings it up all the fucking time. I GUESS THAT REALLY JUST DOESN'T MEAN A DAMN THING IF YOU'RE A MORON, HUH? I'm just going to come out and say it...after this shit, I think she's fucking stupid. SERIOUSLY. Jesus...anyways, it was funny that she embarassed herself like that, and thankfully I don't think the grad student was terribly embarassed or insulted. That is all for now, until she pisses me off again.

Annoying Profs Part II

Ok, I thought of something else that annoys the hell out of me. She always has these random statistics and facts or whatever that she inserts into her lectures, which is fine, but it's the way that she presents them that irks me. She stands at the front of the class with this moronic smirk on her face as though what she's thinking about is either the most clever thing ever thought about and/or is of colossal importance when, in actuallity, it's something obvious and/or completely inane. But does she just come out and say it? No. She stands up there and tries to solicit the answer from the class by asking a question. Now, I respect her attempts at trying to interact with the students, but she extends it to the point of ridiculousness like a bad imitation of Ben Stein in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" ("Bueller...Bueller...Bueller....?").

Oh, and Nick...you just might be riiiiight...
そうだよ。正しかった。

Annoying Professors...

Ok, so I've decided to go ahead and write a blog entry about a certain professor that I have had recently who will remain unnamed here out of what shred of respect I have for her. She seems like a nice person and a good professor I suppose, but she has certain tendencies and qualities that annoy the fuck out of me. Where to start...
Well, first off, she's always either late for class or right on time. Now normally that doesn't really bother me; a bit unprofessional, but that's ok. What irks me about this habit of hers is that she practically busts through the door of the lecture hall at the last minute like a fucking gorilla and power walks (and I mean POWER WALKS) across the front of the classroom to the control center, depositing her notes, keys, videos for class, etc. on the table on the way. Oh wait, I should be more specific; she doesn't "deposit" them. No, she drops (at the very least) or slams them down on the table (most of the time) all the while with a funky look on her face.
Next on my list of complaints is the way she lectures. She seriously sounds like a nervous student trying to rush through a presentation. She talks with a touch of a lisp kind of like she always has just a little too much spit in her mouth while she's trying to talk, and she talks at somewhere around 3000 words per minute. The result is a garbled mass of syllables that can barely be likened to the sound of an elephant with diahrrea, let alone human speech. It's seriously ridiculous.
Ooooh and that brings me to my next point of contention with this person. She tries to act like she's one of the students (i.e., about 18-22 years of age), or at least that's how she comes off. She sits on the table a lot while lecturing and swings her legs like some catholic schoolgirl wannabe...that or a French whore trying to get some clients (which I don't think she'd be very successful at). Much to my chagrin (as I sit in the second to front row), she is more often than not wearing a skirt; not a pretty sight when I happen to glance up from whatever I'm doing on my laptop (as opposed to paying attention) and forget that she's there. Anyways, I digress; back to what I was originally going to complain about. She makes waaaaay too many feeble attempts at sophomoric humor throughout the course of her lectures, and everytime she makes a joke, she laughs at it herself...and nobody else does. Worse yet is how she laughs. Her laugh can be described with one or all of such words as grunt, snort, or guffaw (I like that one). I think it's kind of a combination of those three. So she makes a stupid joke, grunts noisely and gruffly at herself, and then immediate says either "Okaaay?" or "Ya know?". I think she may have been a failed stand-up comedian before her present job.
Anywho, as Anthony has pointed out to me, this is a long ass blog entry, so I'm going to stop the rant here. Hope you enjoyed it.