Prof. Fail

Rant time! Hooray, right?!


This semester, I have been taking a Religious Studies class. This sounds relatively interesting, right? Well, it IS interesting... Once you get past all the professor's B.S. See, my professor really can't be accountable for anything. Sure, he knows a lot about different religions and has some cool stories to tell, but all of this is moot if you can't keep yourself organized. Furthermore, if you can't keep yourself organized, you shouldn't expect your students to be 100% perfect either.


Here's what spurred this:


So we've been "reviewing" Hinduism in our class and lo and behold, my teacher found himself a Hindu. Or should I say "Hindu"? See, I live in a pretty small town where there aren't many Hindus. So even after seeing that this "Hindu" was white and blond, I gave her the benefit of the doubt. To each his own, right? Anyone can be any religion they want in my book. My teacher started off with some basic questions, which she gave reasonable answers for, but when he got into questions about Hindu theology, such as do you believe in god(s), she was all, "Oh I just focus on the universe, I don't really get into gods."


Last time I checked, that was a pretty big part of being a Hindu. 


Then my teacher asked if she had worked with another Hindu to find her mantra and how had she become informed on all aspects of Hinduism? To which she replied, "Everything I know I learned from Wikipedia."


WIKIPEDIA?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! There's a reason professors won't let you use it as a reliable source....


Which is why she shall always be known to me as the "Techno-Hindu".


She also said she wanted to go to a Hindu church. Last time I checked, Christians had churches, Hindus had temples.


Now of course I'm paraphrasing a bit, and maybe she was legitimately nervous about talking infront of a class, but seriously. After she left, one of my fellow classmates said, "It took a lot of balls to get up in front of the class, especially since she didn't know what she was talking about." MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. In my opinion, if you are going to proclaim yourself as a certain religion, you might want to be a bit more informed about it. 


So after this hot mess, my teacher proceeds to kind of fumble through the rest of the notes and then 2 students are left with 30 minutes to give presentations (believe me, they talked FAST). And there's still students who haven't given their presentations for the semester.


Did I mention this was the last day of class?


So to my final complaint. We were supposed to read the Qu'ran in its entirety. I... Did not. I had read it once so this time I just skimmed it. We were supposed to turn in papers each week/class period with a synopsis of what we read. There was a specific format we were supposed to follow, which he had written in detail. Unfortunately he failed to give it to the class. I at least TRIED to turn in some readings. So when I took my sheet to him, he started asking me how much I read *exactly*. Of course I floundered with my answers and finally my professor said, "Well, it looks like you just read a couple of pages." At this point, I was done with the man and the class and I knew there was no point in arguing with him. So I just shrugged and left. 


So that's it. I think I should write a review on ratemyprofessor.com and link this post in it. (-_-;)