Lost my addmission because of a bad teacher! - Page 2

BirdKiller · 08-30-2009, 02:45 AM

I think this professor did the university, student and faculty, a favor.

Art is Melodic · 08-30-2009, 07:18 PM

First of all before we become an angry mob, lets step back and be proper about this... Meaning:

Lets not attack the person, If we do then we are no better and ad Hominems are not

college level arguments.

If you are going to find flaws with her argument, point them out in a polite manner....

We should try to better the attitudes of College confidential so that that the quality of

help improves, and thus improving the quality of life for people.

I truly hope that as future University of California Graduates we walk out of school with

more than a degree but, with proper values, good manners, and best of all good

social skills. So we can then demonstrate that the university of California had done

more than just given us a proper education, but rather the skills to improve our

community.

excuse my grammar, I'm an Art major...

dmission · 08-31-2009, 03:07 AM

Indeed. The responses to this thread are pretty amazing, and not in a good way.

Weirdhobo · 09-01-2009, 11:10 PM

in defense of Dr. Appleman ,I thought he was a great teacher. I took BIS2A the same time as you (this summer). Thing is, I was also shocked by the amount of people failing the class who just couldn't make the cut. But point of the matter is, he was fair, the tests took logical thinking(which imo is lacking is some of the easier classes) as well as background knowledge of the subject matter (shallow understanding resulted in you failing to answer most of the questions right from my experience). I ended up with a B, and I tried a reasonable amount to get it. Plus he had extra credit which he added onto the final grades, he isn't so heartless :\

blanca84 · 09-02-2009, 11:13 PM

To all the people who think i'm raciest, you got it all wrong. If you would have looked at the meaning of the sentence vs what the you see the first time you read it you would have noticed. I mentioned about it being in OAKLAND. I know dam well, blacks, whites, asians and all others are smart people. I was referring to the effort part. People in Oakland don't put effort towards school, and we all know by statistics Asians put all effort towards school because of there parents influences. Not everyone is lucky enough to grow up with there parents paying for everything and not having to work. Davis classes are about 60-80% Asian. I wasn't being raciest, just stating the facts about who's in the classes. I highly admire all black, Indian white, ect.. that got into Davis. Its not easy and i know they worked extremely hard. Again i was referring to the location not the race

Weirdhobo, thats great that you got a B in that class. I got 42 points extra credit and it didn't help. The teacher is heartless. I had a 59% and he gave me an F, didnt bother to up that 1% to give me a D. Like i mentioned he didn't care. he favored his students who went to office hours, which in this case is discrimination, but of course unprovable. If he did bump someone up a grade and failed to do so to someone else, proves in the court discrimination. Again its probably unprovable.

His test's required to much critical thinking, Its pretty sad that the teacher who wrote that book, that he used CURVES. This teacher wouldn't curve no matter what, yet all teachers who teach in FALL DO!! That book sucked and had missing information. I confronted him about that and he told me to use google or go to the reserve and get a more advanced bio book (which he should have had us by in the first place) \. How can you instruct a student to use google, without giving some kind of study guide to go off of. You cant expect a student to randomly learn new information on there own without being directed to what information needs to be learned.

Art is Melodic · 09-02-2009, 11:29 PM

" Like i mentioned he didn't care. he favored his students who went to office hours, which in this case is discrimination, but of course unprovable."

Actually if you go to your professor's office hours it demonstrates that you have an interest in the subject, and are putting in effort. And They will take that in mind when they are computing grades...

collegeguy889 · 09-03-2009, 12:40 AM

How are Davis classes 60-80% Asian when Asian students only make up 44% of the student body? Don't throw out falsified statistics.

tastybeef · 09-03-2009, 02:33 AM

No good professor tests you on the exact material that s/he lectured on. That's simply regurgitation or more aptly put- knowledge diarrhea. You're supposed to learn, think, and synthesize new knowledge.

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His test's required to much critical thinking

Suck it up, this is what a real college class is supposed to be like. If you can't handle it, then go to a vocational school.

Art is Melodic · 09-03-2009, 02:27 PM

"How are Davis classes 60-80% Asian when Asian students only make up 44% of the student body? Don't throw out falsified statistics."

It could be that the majority of the people who sign up for such classes are asian, 44% of the student body, doesn't mean you will have 44 % asians in your classes.

dmission · 09-03-2009, 07:17 PM

Yeah, Art is Melodic is correct. I've had plenty of Bio & Chem classes be 80% asian easily.

Having said that, blanca, the teacher doesn't sound great to me, especially if he wrote the book and still needs to curve to avoid failing his whole class. I think the best thing you can do is go to office hours if you don't understand something and try to avoid this teacher in the future.

Weirdhobo · 09-03-2009, 10:48 PM

dmission and blanca...he didn't write that awful book -_- I admit it was a bad book still though. I personally only skimmed it and took most of my learning from his lecture.

dmission · 09-04-2009, 02:03 AM

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dmission and blanca...he didn't write that awful book -_- I admit it was a bad book still though. I personally only skimmed it and took most of my learning from his lecture.

Didn't know that, was just basing off of what was said above.

arcadefire1027 · 01-18-2010, 01:55 AM

Sounds to me like you just weren't ready for UC difficulty. I've had classes where over half the class gets an F and there's no curve. Suck it up. It's always possible to do well.

Plus LOL at you giving us the ratemyprofessor when most of his reviews are positive. Hell, I'd say he seems like a great teacher from those ratings. You clearly don't have a good grasp of that site if you think it's "evidence" because he doesn't have a "5" in every category or something.

naixn92 · 01-26-2010, 08:15 PM

sucks for you.everyone have problems. i have my own you have yours. but dude... suck it up! its college. you're supposed to be prepared for that.

but anyway, good luck with your request.

Bothwings · 01-26-2010, 10:04 PM

Well that's the harsh reality of life after high school. You have to develop critical thinking skills, you have to be prepared for all the curveballs your employer (or professor) will throw at you, and you have to know how to toughen up and deal with all this.

Like some previous posters already mentioned, regurgitation of information is not the point of college.