Blog Challenge: 8/25 - Bad Bad Teacher

I crossed a new threshold in bad teaching yesterday.

Do you remember having a class in college where the professor was so useless that by the middle of the term almost no one would show up to lecture? It was pretty pathetic. Well, I discovered yesterday that a teacher can sink even lower: I had no students show up for class. Sure the class is free and sure the weather was bad, but still: that's a sorry state of affairs.

I decided to make the most of it and get some other work done during the two hour time slot. Just when I started feeling good about that decision one of the students showed up and hour into it. If it had been any other student this would have been a great chance for me to really help them one-on-one, but this particular student is an oddball conspiracy theorist who not only spent the hour asking pretty insane questions about radiation and Bin Laden viruses, but also took FOR-EV-ER to get out of there, and I couldn't close up the room till they left.

Moral: Nature abhors a vacuum, and it really f***ing loathes an ineffective teacher.