Greg | 
04 18th, 2008| 
Lest you mistake me for a totally ignorant fool based off of Part I, I will now briefly play the devil’s advocate and provide some reasons for the behavior which I previously marked as being indicative of an insecure professor:
Apr
16
I think the ultimate measure of how secure a professor is in his ability to teach can be found in his grading policy: the less a grade hinges on class attendance, the more confident he is that his lectures are worth attending for the sake of mastering the subject itself. Why do I say this? Because by penalizing students for failing to attend a lecture, a professor implies that the content of that lecture doesn’t carry enough educational “weight” on its own to merit attendance… that is unless he attaches a concrete, tangible benefit such as “points”.
Apr
3
Let me start off by saying that I know a lot of people with scholarships. They study hard and receive much better grades than I do. Consequently, their school is paid for thanks to these fine academic instruments. Does anyone lose? Let’s take a look at this question from an economic perspective.
Apr
2
I am against tenure on principal. This establishment, like most things academic in America, needs to be overhauled or removed entirely. The problem lies in the fact that once a professor has scraped, crawled, and bootlicked their way into a tenured position, they have no incentive whatsoever to continue to learn and hone their abilities as instructors of our nation’s future. Why bother trying to keep up with all the trends in their field? They get paid the same regardless.
Apr
1
So, come fall, I’ll be moving back to an apartment complex which has worse management, higher rent, and less living space than my current accommodations. Why on earth would I make such a decision? The plain and simple answer is that this complex I’ll be moving to has A) a more tightly-knit community of college students and more importantly, B) better looking girls.