boring easy-A professor or hard interesting professor?

kp.eric · 07-31-2008, 06:29 AM

I'm going to be attending a CC this Fall. Which do you prefer? I know I want the easy-A, because I want a 4.0 to transfer to Haas or Marshall, but is it worth it to have a boring class, in which you don't learn much?

88888888 · 07-31-2008, 06:46 AM

Interesting easy professor.

kp.eric · 07-31-2008, 06:51 AM

Eh, I have a late registration date. It's usually one or the other that I mentioned above... :\

MagiTF · 07-31-2008, 10:58 AM

I go with interesting hard professor when I'm faced with a situation like that. However, given your goals I'd endure the easier one even if he is a bit boring. Although, if the class is obviously easier (to a point where the admissions people will notice), like basket-weaving versus organic chemistry, I'd go with the more difficult one.

1lazysoul · 07-31-2008, 10:58 AM

In my experience in the CC that I attended, the good business law professors and accounting professors have bad ratings online. By good, I mean that they not only have vast experience in the field but they also have passion in what they are doing. Unless you already know the material and you are only in the class for the sake of the credits, you might want to go with the once that would help you be prepared for Marshall or Haas.

chickadee2586 · 07-31-2008, 01:34 PM

I think with throw away GE classes, it would probably be better to take the easy professor. With major classes, however, take whichever teacher will teach you the most. It will be more useful in the end. An "easy" class doesn't always mean you don't learn anything and a hard class doesn't mean you will. You really have to look at the context of the good and bad reviews.

kevin101 · 08-01-2008, 04:59 AM

I agree with chickadee2586 very much! In addition, for GEs, pick the easy and interesting ones. For majors, pick the ones you learn the most because even if you can get an A but learn nothing, you will suffer in your upper division courses. I have seen high GPA students transferring to my school and barely get A in the upper division courses.

hermanns · 08-01-2008, 10:27 AM

I have had every possible kind of professor. I prefer the relatively easy, but very interesting types of course, but just because a class is hard does not mean you will learn a lot. My intro to bio course last semester was poorly taught, and the adjunct professor made it sooo much harder than it needed to be. The tests were almost impossible because of the way he randomly picked questions out of hundreds of pages of text and most of them were things we didn't go over in class even one time. Almost half the class dropped it, and the test average was in the 50% range, and he had no curve. I think other than me, only one person got an A. Classes like financial accounting are going to be hard regardless of the professor though.

cpSCHICK · 08-01-2008, 11:31 AM

I know I should say pick the hard/interesting one but I'm not. Although, it kind of depends on your major. If the classes you're taking teach you the fundamentals for your other years in college then it will be important to have to push yourself for the grade and actually learn something. Classes at the college you transfer to will most certainly not be as easy.

But if you're interested in grad school then grades are very important ;P

themovies · 08-01-2008, 12:28 PM

Take the hard one. I'm cheap and poor, no way in hell I'm going to pay somebody good money to teach me nothing. Might as well just buy some nice paper and print my own diploma at Kinko's if it's not going to represent any actual education.

thatgirltoo · 08-01-2008, 02:22 PM

I agree, take the hard & interesting one. I took a class my final CC semester that was so ridiculously easy and boring that I kicked myself every time I had to go. (Not only was the teacher boring, he treated us as if we were high school students. He was very condescending and wouldn't allow anyone to just speak up without raising hands.) I learned absolutely nothing new. Wasted time/wasted money. I did earn an A though, with basically zero effort.

kevin101 · 08-01-2008, 03:06 PM

thatgirltoo, I wonder what that easy class you take. I bet it must not be math or science.

Caillebotte · 08-02-2008, 01:09 AM

The latter.

Olives · 08-02-2008, 07:16 PM

Take the RMP profiles with a grain of salt. Seriously. Especially since you're at a community college, correct? My favorite professor had something like a 1.5 rating on one of those, just because he quized on the reading. I had no trouble getting an A in that class.

At the same time, I've had a few "easy A" teachers that I couldn't stand because they were so boring or even incompetent.

My suggestion, don't stress so much about it. If you're an A student, your merits should be the same regardless of the professor.