murder.

I have had the class from hell. Absolute, dogshit hell. I was scheduled to have one of my favorite teachers for this, Aero/hydrodynamics. Unfortunately, Marchman, an old sarcastic bastard who grades hard but teaches well, was out this semester as he eases into retirement. In was Roger Simpson, a bat shit crazy old man with no control over voice inflection.

Where to begin...

He gives quizzes instead of tests and the questions on the quizzes are a suprise for everyone. No one knows what the fuck to expect on any of these. On our 6th and final quiz, the first question asked about downwash velocitys due to attached vortices, a subject we hadnt even completely treated. Everyone consistently bombs the quizzes, so i figure curve'll save me.

His lectures are terrible. He has absolutely no idea how to translate ideas to other people. If you asked him what lift was, instead of saying "a force created by the difference between pressures on the upper and lower surface of a wing that physically lifts it up." he would say "Lift is defined by the Kutta Joukowski Theorem as the spanwise integral of the freestream velocity, freestream denisty and the attached circulation as a function of spanwise position."

He also babbles on and on about who the fuck knows during lectures.

His homeworks never reflect the material on the quizzes and are often so long and drawn out, no one can solve them as they are routinely assigned on a wed and due that fri.

All this was fine becuase i figured i was ahead of the curve and would probably get a B+ in the course until I got back my project which was an average 40 and i got an 11% becuase the TA couldnt read some of my output graphs (given to me directly from a program given directly by the prof) and he refused to read or grade any of my results or analysis.

And then Simpson says "Ive never been forced to curve one of my classes before, and Im not going to start now. Do well on the final, and you'll be rewarded."

Great, I need a C- for my prereqs for most of next semester. If I dont get a C-, it will basically cost me an extra semester of 11+ grand that I dont have. And the only chance I have at saving my semester is to cram from now until the Aero final and damn the rest of my grades.

I swear, if I had even a 50/50 chance at killing this man and getting away with it, I would do it. And I'm no where near joking.