How to Deal with the Worst Professors | College and University Tips

Professors can be amazing and life changing but they can also be difficult or terrible teachers. I'll bet you anything you want that you will have at least one of these latter professors at some point in your time at university or college.

Some students think a course with a bad or the worst professor, basically means to give up. Forget about learning or doing well in that course, just consider it a foregone conclusion. I disagree. I think having one of these professors is precisely the type of adversity that every student SHOULD encounter, to develop strategies and resilience to continuing with any goal they have (here being to learn).

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[liamwelsh]

The thing that blows my mind is how universities let some of these people teach. Who cares who kind of fancy Phd paper they wrote. It's absolutely useless if they can't convey their knowledge to others.

[Mitsoukee]

The worst situation is when it’s the last course you need to graduate
And there is only one professor who teaches it. This is my situation rn 🙂 I’m just glad that it will all be over by the end of this month

[HamidHamid-ylnt]

We, students in the third world countries, suffer a lot of of bad administration and toxic teachers.

[RIOSALEXANDRA]

Unprofessional and rude professors need to go under training to teach complex subjects into simple straightforward analogies that the students can digest. Their responsibility is to teach, respond to questions with respect, and have organization on the material they are teaching. They need to respect office hours and make them available for their students. Students pay a lot of money to obtain their education we are the customers they are the employees. The students are not guilty of the neglected job that the non-professional or rude professors have. I went through these and is not fun. I spoke with my professor and it did not work so I took it to the chair and then to the dean. We the students take responsibility to take notes, reading the syllabus, making sure we submit assignments, going to lectures, and paying attention and asking questions. Students are not asking for favors is the professor's responsibility to know what he or she signs up for and it is not okay to lack respect for the student's time, money, future, and education. If they do not like their jobs and they put their frustrations on the students is NOT RIGHT and it has to be SOLVE. Yes, that is why they have the chair and the dean to help to better the situation maybe the professors need help with something personal or need to take things off of their plates because if they are not performing well they are risking their education, GPA and making students repeat classes because the lack organization in class in their canvas in their assignments in the sources that we need to have on time to be able to perform. Yes, we need to take CONTROL OF OUR LEARNING, EDUCATION, and FUTURE. We need to speak up and never let anyone be rude, condescending, or patronizing, even if authority is not okay. Do not neutralize bad treatment from authority especially if they are getting paid and it is their job to REPORT THEM to their superiors to make sure the next generation gets a professional teacher who has a passion to teach, organize canvases, and assignments, answer questions, respecting office hours, clear and neat on his or her teaching, and sets students for success not for failure. If someone is going through these find sources, speak to friends, family, advisors, and therapists, and write a journal about the irregularities, and incidents with such a professor you need to collect emails, times, and dates, that support your case. Ask for your rights and the tools you need to succeed in class. First, speak with the professor's polity and make a list of your points then allow to see if the professor is delivering if not go to the chairperson if they do not listen go to the dean till it is solved or change universities or major. It is always useful to speak up and take action to solve situations.

[cre]

2:15 Sometimes you don't realize how bad it will be and it will be too late to drop out till then

[niveditamanjhi]

Some teachers doesnt wanna pass you no matter how much you study just because they dont like you 😪...i hope i can graduate this year

[galileodelcurto]

This video is great. I loved the part where we, the students, sometimes create this imaginary prize of having a nightmare teacher. Its no good and in the end it will cost you too much energy and bad mood. Good luck too all of you in your studies.

[MrNoahsamen]

I had two programming professors and they were the only one teaching these courses and let me tell you if they are the only one teaching it then get over it. You can’t change professor if they are the only one that teaches it and start doing your assignments early don’t wait on the last minute, trust it hurts really bad

[yourstruly]

Dealing with an explosive chem professor who is constantly flipping her shit at everyone, humiliating students in front of the class, getting emotional, marking answers wrong just to mark them wrong, bragging about being a “bitch, ” insulting herself etc . I wanna drop so bad but I can’t

[nicorsar]

I am a college professor and I had an idea for an assignment, so I navigated to this video. it is interesting to me because while I am just solid (I won one teaching award in my career, where as others have many) - some are just awful. I have had students tell me they stayed outside my lecture to listen to what I teach so they understand it better the way its being taught to them. And that is a terrible situation....because what can I do about it? The professor doesnt answer to me - they answer to the Chair. If the Chair gets enough notes the person is awful maybe they will do something about it (but likely wont). Get out of the course early if you can! Its my only solution to you.

[redheadredemption]

Students need to keep complaining and demand better faculty. This video seems like it's asking the audience to enable poor teaching. It's probably made by a disgruntled professor😂

[raquelserrano]

This video has not helpful. It's patronizing, as if I didn't know I have to try hard. The truth is, in some situations if you try to fix an unfixable problem, you only stress more, waste more time, and feel even more disappointed at the end. I've been in classes where the more I study the worst I do, the textbooks contradicts the professor, or different people give you different answers. In some programs you can't change professors. Sometimes the best you can do is understand that the system is wrong, and do what you can without letting that get to your head. Understand that the grade given is not reflective of your intelligence because the system makes no sense, and be okey with not having A's bc some professors will not let you have them.

[BederikStorm]

Thank you.
That's a very important lesson to all students to take full responsibility of their actions/inactions

[pammymari]

I have a teacher who can't teach and every time i ask question she ignored me . i try to learn from youtube its a math class .

[PersonaLegends]

this year i actually had one of the worst mathematics teachers i ever had, where he quite literally never knew what was going on, the best thing i chose to do was to teach myself, ended up getting a 93% in that class, it taught me the importance of independence and teaching yourself, inspired me to get a bachelor in philosophy along with engineering.

[KimberlyNguyen-hs]

I have 2-3 professor to be rude to me and say get kicked of my classes and I just don’t know what to do anymore and so you have any advice for me.

[cloudsofsunset]

I am at some short of "community college" outside of the US.
We cannot choose classes, we cannot choose teacher nor deliberately pick another subject and graduate. It's very stagnant. This year I have 2 teachers that seeeeriously get on my nerves. I cannot focus on class. When I participate, they pick on me publicly. It's seriously so difficult to deal with them and be active part of the class. I don't have problem with the subjects as far as studying goes but going to those classes is a nightmare.
I don't find it funny, I don't find it cool to complain. I am SERIOUSLY struggling to get a grip on these teachers.
I am the type of person to laugh if something mess up happens to me.
But this seems to be out of my handling skills with teachers.
I don't know what I can do, I am going to try change my approach to treat them like they are stupid with lots of love. Like treating an elder with dementia. Cause that seems to be the only way for me now.

[saadkool]

Amazing video! I’ve just graduated high school and getting into college, this video helped me feel less anxious and more prepared, i shall watch more

[Faith_mmack]

It sounds harsh but I see where he is coming from. I definitely have empathy for anyone who has had a bad Professor and most of the class failing the course. Who am I to judge. You really just need to work harder than anyone else and get extra resources to do well. I remember I had a terrible Professor and I just worked extra hard and even reported him for being very rude. I got an A in the course.

[Stuart_Dooley]

I literally have a biology professor that gives us studies guides and then gives us the exams that have literally fuck all to do with the study guides they give us. The average ended up being a 58 with the highest being an 82 and lowest being a 17. Literally one example I can think of is how EVERYWHERE in the study guide, they mention how the replication fork looked in full detail and on the exam they didn’t mention ANYTHING about the fork and told us to label the replication bubble which was NOWHERE on the study guide.