Quote Originally Posted by drmcboy
But if the students were going to strike I would have told them to STFU. No one has it better and complains more then college students.
I have zero professors. I have researchers bringing in money and delegating all of their classes to unimaginative and over-worked TAs. I pay 10k per semester, make zero money for the 40 hrs/week of work that I do. My "work" is always just playing imagination with technical papers. Which are "graded" by graders who barely read 10% of my paper. I have mapped flow over a cylinder in an open-jet wind tunnel 5 times. How many cylinders do you see flying through the air?

I have 1 professor that fails (D or worse, all engineering pre-reqs require C-) half of his aero/hydrodynamics class. Which is a prereq for all of senior year. He holds this class in an auditorium with no desks. His two TAs are mechanical engineers who have never taken an in depth aero/hydrodynamics. Because of him, many student need to stay an extra semester. He is also the president of the AIAA. Professor Dr. Simpson. http://www.ratevtteachers.com/detail.asp?id=3223

Every aspect of every one of my classes insults me. None of my professors respect any of their students. Have you seen what happens when a professor makes a terrible test then defends it? One example was a question where theory suggested one answer, but because of the given dimensions the answer suggested another (to seven decimal point accuracy). Though our plug-and-chug answers were verified correct, none of us received credit.

I live in a world where I'm judged by people who don't know or care about me. They attach letter grades to me in ways so infuriating that I almost can't believe that I consider college to be the greatest thing to ever happen to me.

Just because all of my complaints aren't "real world" complaints doesn't make them any less. But my "world" is on the door step of the "real world" and I can't wait to get out.