Is this what most hard-science professors are like, robots?
Is this what most hard-science professors are like, robots?
Brody Williams
Joshua Wilson
My calc 2 professor was like this. His examples were all special cases so most people struggled to learn how to actually do anything. Fucking sucked.
Levi James
Pretty much, yeah. Especially the older ones. Don't forget, professors are hired because they're good at research, not because they're good lecturers. That's changing a bit these days, but the priority is still their ability to bring in the big bucks with their research.
Grayson Clark
Yes, like half the time at least. To be successful you have to be prepared to teach yourself just about everything.
Andrew Garcia
honestly I've found that most people complaining on rate my professor are just lazy and upset they didn't get an A for simply completing the work
Nolan Nelson
Math profs feel like this.
They wqnt to show how smart they r
Austin James
Not at all, what the fuck kind of shitty universities do you go to? I have encountered just a few bad professors in my undergrad, and that's as a chem/bio double major. Most of them seem to care deeply about student learning, I assume their careers depend on it. Yes they do research as well but that's why they only teach one or two classes during the semester.
In fact, the only professors who don't seem to care much are the ones in charge of labs since they have 7 or 8 sections to worry about. But there's always plenty of GTA's there to help with that so the main instructor doesn't have such a huge load to worry about.
Daniel Torres
Yeah most teachers at my state school gave zero consideration to pedagogy. Just basically did some examples out of the book.
Still got B's
Daniel Ward
For hard sciences, unfortunately yes. They're paid to do research, not teach, and when the class is larger than 50 people their level of fucks given is non-existent. It takes until at least the 400 level courses to start to be actually educated.
It's why hard science students are the biggest batch of subhuman retards I've ever seen in my life.
>Can't write
>Can't read
>Can't apply what they rote memorized
>Can't remember what they rote memorized
>Can't communicate
>Can't critically think
I got a C+ average in my Biology minor and actually failed Gen Chem II. I got accepted into my university's Mercury Ecotoxicology and Geochemistry lab. The guy I worked under told me that I was the best student he ever taught (All of them were Bio students) and the one most willing to learn and work. He also liked I was the only one who understood my role in the lab and did my part.
Levi Rivera
This is because all biofags go into medicine not research, they'll literally take trained monkeys to do research.
Hudson Thompson
In general most of the STEM lords I met were fairly crappy people who despite being university seniors looked, behaved, and had the intelligence of a HS Sophomore posting on /sci/.
>all biofags go into medicine not research
That's the biggest lamentation I have with Biology and with Med Schools. Med Schools actually discriminate against you having a Biology degree because they know you learned nothing of value to them and that your grades mean nothing. It's part of why they want a 3.5+ GPA just to try and limit the amount of people
Levi Baker
In my experience it's true for math and CS professors. They have the attitude that they're hot shit and you're all retards. So they expect you to fail and don't care if it's their fault. Science profs can be the same way but at least their autistic passion for their discipline tends to shine through. They love the subject and they want to gush about it.
Elijah Johnson
The thing is, you don't actually have to be that smart or well educated for med school. Curriculum is geared towards practice not theory so it's hardly esoteric. Difficulty comes from volume of material, not complexity. Anyone can learn it if they just study hard enough.
Noah Parker
Med Schools recommend doing a degree you enjoy for undergrad so you're not all burned out and can get a decent education like Classical Studies or Physical Anthropology.
Jeremiah Torres
As someone who has worked very closely with people that make decisions about who gets into med school, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Isaiah Russell
No I've had great hard science professors who cared about students, they just wanted you to know and understand the material. One of them was a full tenure chem professor who led an active research lab but still took time to help students. His classes were difficult but you learnt a lot. Since if my favourite classes at uni were taught by him, it just depends on the professor.
Levi King
You must have gotten shit professors because most I've had absolutely LOVE to explain things. My Calc 2 class wasn't even about proofs but my professor would just prove everything so we understand how it worked. He got to flex his nuts and we understood everything better. He would practically beg us to ask questions.
David Rodriguez
Depends. For a lot of professors it's just a job. They decided stay in academia forever as career and teaching is just a side gig for them that comes with the territory. They have no passion for it. Rare is the professor who really knows the material and also truly wants to help others learn so as to share their insights and passion and rarer still are those who do it well.
Jordan Cook
Medical school student here. In my experience, it was half and half.
Chem: I took the same professor for general chem I and II. He was alright. He explained everything slowly, but not really thoroughly. For example, he kind of had too much confidence that you knew at least pre-calc level math. Which you really should so its not his fault, but in reality most of the people in my class got confused when shit like logs and integration came up. I'm a math major so I didn't have that problem but my professor pretty much said "Yeah you should know this already." if it wasn't directly chem related.
Biology: Complete joke. Bio I and II for me were shitshows. My professors were trash and just read off powerpoint for the duration and were way less open to questions than any other professors I've ever had. I'm convinced at this point that Biology is the dumb person's science major.
Orgo: Same professor for I and II, fantastic professor. Truly had a passion for the subject, explained everything thoroughly, open to questions, knew his shit. Was a great class.
Biochemistry: It was so bad I dropped the class and took the class in a different college for the credit and it was still not great.
Physics: Took the same professor for I and II. Phenomenal professor, knew his stuff. Would explain everything in the most babby terms possible. You would have to have been literally retarded to fail. It was great.
All my math professors were pretty great. Math was a very small major at my uni, so every later class in the major was just a comfy group of like 10 of us. But yeah, I hated Biology at my college. It was just bad.
Dominic Gomez
>medical school
>math major
but why?
David James
Why not? Biology major doesn't really teach you anything that useful or necessary, outside of anatomy and some miscellaneous shit really, and its a lot of work. At least for me, the sheer volume of material as a bio major negates any benefit it would have had for me long term. I would have forgotten everything anyway. Plus they teach all those things you need in medical school, that's kind of the point of medical school.
When I first started college, I had every intention of being a bio major because like everyone, I assumed thats just what you did. In reality that's dumb, don't force bio on yourself. You don't need it and most of the stuff you'll need for the MCAT will be gotten through independent study. The first bio class I took was so bad it pretty much made me rethink everything.
In pre-med, at least at my uni, they encouraged you NOT to take bio because medical schools like some diversity in thought. 99% of the applicants will be bio or chem major so naturally if you're some 4.0 GPA underwater basket weaving major with a near-perfect MCAT, you stand out a lot, in a good way.
As for why I chose math though, I just have an affinity for math. I just like math and I wanted to pick a major I was guaranteed As in and that was not biology. Math was just the logical conclusion for me. When I did my medical school interviews, literally everyone was impressed that I was a Math major. It really did help me a lot. I had a 3.9 GPA in fucking Math, with a near perfect MCAT. My ECs weren't amazing but I still got every school I applied to, including an Ivy league one.
If you like bio, power to you. But if you can't stand bio and the sheer volume of material looks really intimidating and you're 100% sure you want to be a doctor, just major in something fun that you like.
Joshua Bell
>tfw literally every professor I've ever had has been incompetent with technology, poor communicator, and heavily biased
Stay away from small town community colleges kids
Chase Flores
A decent amount of the science profs I've taken classes from at uni were foreign (Indian or East Asian), didnt speak English that well and sped through slideshows like that. Kinda made me feel retarded at first. Like are other people able to follow this and I'm not? No, STEMfags are just awful with people skills quite often as the stereotype goes.
Andrew Reed
Is bio major really that undesired for pre-med?
Jace Mitchell
Bio / premed is fine. Math is fine too. If any undergrad is too daunting for you you'll be fucked for med school regardless, weed yourself out for your own good by trying your hand.
Zachary Turner
Its not undesired in that medical schools will close the door on you right away or anything. Most people that apply to med schools are in fact bio majors. But, it doesn't really benefit you either. My main point is don't force yourself to do it, because there really is no reason to.
I believe by major, bio majors have one of the lowest rate of acceptance of any major. But you have to keep in mind that most people that apply are bio majors so its not a completely fair comparison. Still, I think humanities majors have like a 50+% acceptance rate which is INSANE. Those English majors are really cleaning up.
Jeremiah Cruz
I had a prof who was a well recognized Ornithologist and she was, interesting. We had a field research lab and 90% of it was just her showing her Autism by spouting off facts about the birds while we fondled them. There was also an ecological statistics co-professor who was pretty chill though.