Dear Undeserving Professor,
If I had the ability I would forbid you from having a summer break. I wish I could say it’s been a pleasure having you as a professor, but your personality, arbitrary ways of grading, and your ludicrous expectations for the course have forever taken away any chances of me to ever think that.
To start off, you have a dark and distasteful personality. The word "cruel" best suits you. "Cruel" is what professors who take random attendances are. Throughout the semester, you took random attendance on days where not many students can make it for obvious reasons. You took attendance on the day before spring break, on religious holidays, and on days where weather conditions made it near impossible to get to class. Even when students, including myself, would email you about their absence, you demonstrated zero sympathies; a clear aspect of why many students chose to not attend your class.
Professors typically create their own non-arbitrary grading scale and detailed rubrics for projects, papers, etc., but of course, you chose to be cruel and grade arbitrarily. You made it near impossible to receive an “A”. Although the grading scale of the overall course was mentioned in your syllabus, when it came to projects, a grading rubric was nonexistent. Instead, the grades for those activities were either an A, C, or F with no explanation of what you are looking for. It’s kind of hard how to obtain an "A" when the student has no idea what is expected of them. No matter how much effort a student put into something due for a class, you seemed to have a favorite letter: "C". Although the saying goes, “C”s Get Degrees", ”C"s also hurt a student’s GPA, which can possibly affect them while applying for internships and full-time positions. It’s clear that you could not care less.
Although you failed to give students a clue of what your expectations were for a project, your expectations during your class were ludicrous. If you noticed a laptop in the audience, you would point out the student and force them to put it away. Even though technology has proven to hinder a student’s understanding of criteria in the classroom, the use of a laptop during your lecture would have benefited students. Since the class was held in a lecture, it is hard for students to see the PowerPoint slides while taking notes. Luckily, you put each PowerPoint online to follow along and to better understand the chapter, yet you continued to restrict laptops and all other technology. It is confusing to me why you implemented that restriction, especially since all you did during class was read off the slides word for word. It’s almost like you wanted to make the course a living hell.
I cannot explain how thankful I am to be forever done with you. I do not know how I survived an hour and twenty-five minutes with you twice a week for sixteen weeks long. I should be walking away from your class with an “A” for successfully dealing with you for that long. Instead, I will be walking away with your favorite letter “C”, and a great decrease in my GPA. I put way too much effort into this course to deserve this grade. Furthermore, with a round of applause, and a standing ovation, I would love to congratulate you for being the absolute worst. Allow me to award you with the inability to have a summer break; you definitely earned it.
Sincerely,
A Hard Working Student.
