I know we all have those stories where we tell our friends, "I hate my professor. He's the worst professor I ever met. She always gives students a hard time. She is a strict grader!!! She never gives any leeway. I think it is personal between me and her. She must not like me."
Well, all of those statements can be true. And yes, professors hate students too!!! Professors have to deal with a myriad of people. Whether it is the girl who recently got pregnant and is going to constantly send the professor emails, of when she is going into labor; or whether it is meeting with the dean of the college and discussing how rude you were to one of your students about a question that seemed reasonable. I get it.
I understand professors work long and hard over the years to get tenure at any respectable university. I understand that their professor salary is their only means of income. I understand that professors deal with maybe 150 or more kids a day. But that is no reason to have such resentment towards us.
To us, as students, we are here to learn valuable information in a course that will help us later on in life. It will help us effectively deal with an extenuating circumstance, which will require us to use the requisite skills we learned in a particular class. And to say that we do not like you as an individual and think it is personal is asinine.
Some students do not care what type of person you are. Some students do not care what you do in your personal life. Some students do not even care if you show up. They are just there to get an easy A and get out. Some students just do not have that much care in the world for professors. But I guess I can understand that professors have a reason to hate.
But I just hope that professors and us students can find common ground. Students cannot even ask questions to the professor anymore because of either a lack of response or a snark remark they are going to give. That makes us students feel bad because, we have very thoughtful questions to ask, but you are too much of a douche to let anyone answer it.
Professors have rights, but moreimportantly, students have rights as well. We are the reason you are here. We are paying for your salary that you get every week. If it were not for us, you would not be working. Professors should show students much more appreciation. But then again, they are the ones who hold the necessary knowledge and requisite skills, that we are going to need in the future.
So, I guess we just have to swallow our pride and bear through the remaining five weeks we have with this nit-wit of a professor and try to think positive, through and through. Professors may hate students, but the feeling is mutual. Very mutual.
