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4/30/2008 3:19:09 AM

meh, the worst instructor i've had in a long time is bill dupont- but at least he doesn't have it out for his students and try to punish them for his inability to convey knowledge in an interesting and effective manner. the class typically does insanely terrible on the exams but he curves it up to 80... unlike another member of the same department who can't teach and holds his students responsible for his shortcomings (ahem GreatGazoo)

4/30/2008 3:34:02 AM

^Vix.

i really hope you arent talking about Austin from that Religion of Science course, cause that shit was one of the easiest a's i ever received. i mean, tests were ridiculous, but no attendance required, plus 70+ is an A. . . .

4/30/2008 6:38:57 AM

Where my CE's at? Represent! Dr. Chow. FTMFL

4/30/2008 6:40:03 AM

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"Austin"

yea, you recieve a 70% then he curves that for an A?

why not change the presentation of material so that you receive an A instead of the class average being a 62

the fact that it's open book take your time on everything and people are still getting horrible grades should be evidence something is wrong

the grades are echoed across all the classes he teaches

it sucks to take the class without knowing he's going to curve the grade...he told us during dead week that a 64 = B (40% still undetermined)

4/30/2008 6:46:12 AM

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"meh, the worst instructor i've had in a long time is bill dupont"

This dude is horrible and also acts like an ass when you go to see him or ask questions

4/30/2008 6:58:51 AM

I had Orji in Fall '04 and dropped that shit...worst fucking professor ever

4/30/2008 7:22:50 AM

I had Orji fall '05 (the last semester he taught it). But the stuff was "Mickey Mouse" and you were "breaking his heart." Screw him. I have never been more proud to get an 88 in a class.

4/30/2008 10:28:45 AM

Zeng - MAE 301 - We got him, "Asked to leave".

4/30/2008 10:34:17 AM

the professor who teaches Philosophy of Science. What a cool topic that is never understood bc of the professor. I can't remember his name. Phi 340

4/30/2008 10:38:35 AM

^ Philosophy of Religion has an amazingly epic fail professor as well.

4/30/2008 10:40:02 AM

^^that's Austin.

[Edited on April 30, 2008 at 10:41 AM. Reason : .]

4/30/2008 10:40:46 AM

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"who's that math guy everyone hates? silber?"

Jack Silverstein

silber.








and i took Philosophy of Science back in 1999 or 2000, and I got an A. All you had to do was THINK a little bit and you were golden. (something that is lost in this current generation.)
Also, back then you had to get a ~93 to get an A, not a 90 like all of the other classes.

4/30/2008 10:41:10 AM

^ I don't think that there is a lack of thinking. I'm an Engineering Major, I just don't think in the way Philosophy or CHASS majors do. I think it is different styles of thinking. I have faired quite better (93 and above) in my other required philosophy classes (ethics and whatnot).

4/30/2008 10:43:24 AM

Yeah...Austin. I took it in 2001. He was terrible. I got the subject fine others did not...he just sucked at teaching. Now I hear every thing is online. That represents failure to me.

[Edited on April 30, 2008 at 10:44 AM. Reason : ...]

4/30/2008 10:43:57 AM

you people... he was a good teacher... one of the few classes outside of my major that I enjoyed going to.

4/30/2008 10:45:33 AM

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"Where my CE's at? Represent! Dr. Chow. FTMFL"

REPRESENTIN.

And it's Dr. Chao.

Agreed though, nothing like a psychotic little man shouting "UNNASTAND?" every few minutes. I definitely didn't pick up a good understanding of dynamics from his class.

As for others, I have to agree about Orji. In-class lectures were useless and, at the time, I was too lazy to teach myself outside of class (yay veedya games!). I still managed to get a decent grade in his class (took it fall of '04), B-, even with eerybody failing.

Let's see... I have to pick a THIRD one now don't I... Oh yeah, who the hell was my thermo teacher... Ah hell I don't remember. Had him last semester I think. He was just good at ranting on and on and taking 15 minutes of notes and making them last the entire class period. It was completely useless to go to his class, haha. About halfway through the semester I started teaching myself from the textbook and made a lot more progress that way. It would've been a little better had he not been as boring as he was.

4/30/2008 10:51:36 AM

He doesn't deserve his name being spelled correctly.

4/30/2008 10:54:56 AM

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"Zeng - MAE 301 - We got him, "Asked to leave"."

haha try Dr. Hassan on the one semester he decided to step down from grad teaching to do mae 301



[Edited on April 30, 2008 at 10:57 AM. Reason : i'm dumb]

4/30/2008 10:55:26 AM

there used to be a history professor when i was there, i want to say i had him late 02/03...just a core class i had to knock out...black guy, and he was a HUGE pain in the ass...

i want to say his last name was johnson?

anybody remember him?

4/30/2008 10:56:16 AM

^^^^

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"Zeng - MAE 301 - We got him, "Asked to leave"."

[Edited on April 30, 2008 at 10:56 AM. Reason : ^]

4/30/2008 10:56:17 AM

Hambourger

Shannon Davis

Robin Thomas

4/30/2008 10:58:21 AM

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"Hambourger"

OMG! I totally forgot about that spaz! Terrible!

4/30/2008 11:00:55 AM

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"But if you don't teach the shit you're supposed to teach and instead riddle the lecture with inside jokes that only you think are funny, does that not make you a bad teacher?"

that explains dr. banks. if you have to tell people to laugh, maybe you shouldn't make the joke.

4/30/2008 11:01:51 AM

FYI Orji was let go by the University at the end of the 2005-2006 school year, so he is no longer employed here.

I used to grade for his class, and it was a bit sad how many kids bombed his tests. They were the most difficult of any of the Chem 101 tests for any professor that year, I looked at them all. Those grade distributions look about right. I never once gave a 100 on any of his exams, and A or A- was pretty much <10% of the class


To be fair though, he did ask some easy questions too that a ton of people got wrong. I think it was mainly due to most kids just giving up after bombing the first test, so they never tried down the road. Failure is a hard pill to swallow.


He was a nice guy if you ever spoke with him outside of class. And his accent wasn't bad, I think people were over exaggerating to find reasons other than themselves why they performed poorly. If he had implemented a grading curve (he never curved) I don't think he would have been fired.

Teaching is weird, kids need to learn the basics, but you can't fail everyone, so if 1/2 the class bombs an exam, you either have to curve it or risk getting fired. It makes college sound really dumb. We are just paying for a certificate.

4/30/2008 11:23:38 AM

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"Hall is a good teacher but her grading is cruel"

Exactly.

Dr. Islam of the SOC department was excruciatingly boring: I hope they've fired him by now

4/30/2008 11:25:02 AM

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"Shannon Davis"

She may have some ill bitch tendencies but still a good teacher. Not easy on her students by any means but doesn't qualify for this title IMHO

Greg Young FTW. This guy is a royal piece of shit and in general a failure at life and teaching. Fucking asshole

[Edited on April 30, 2008 at 11:38 AM. Reason : .]

4/30/2008 11:36:54 AM

anita flick

4/30/2008 12:01:34 PM

I dont know if he still teaches undergrad but

H.

Joel

Trussell

4/30/2008 12:02:54 PM

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"who fails ch101 though?"

though that could be most of a chem degree talking from me...

chem isn't "hard" but some teachers make it much more difficult than it is.

4/30/2008 12:06:21 PM

^ Agree. Orji wasnt the worst teacher (fall 04), but his exams were horribly hard. I never really gave him much thought, since it was my first semester in college coming from Easy Street HS. I had a few other gems (petite german lady who mustve been into BSDM, fall 04 MA141) that made my first semester fairly hard. I did find his teaching quite a pain, but Ive had worse who still managed to teach better. And to the TA: yes he did curve quite a bit. I did my own grades after the final, and I should have made a D+ in the class. but the grades came in and I made a C+. And that was with taking into account all of his 55=85 crap after every test.

I had one guy for calc 3 Fall of 05 (i think) that was absolutely horrible. He started the semester (in calculus 3 for christs sakes) talking about associative and communitive properties of math. Then I stopped paying attention for a week when he jumped to transforms, and all that other higher level math crap that engineers dont use as much later on. And then the class went south pretty hard and it was a struggle to pass. Oh, and he talked about meeting the Pope and about how melons made sense in calculus. I think he was from turkey or something like that.

4/30/2008 12:29:10 PM

Orji got fired in the first quarter of the semester when I had him. That was interesting.

4/30/2008 12:30:43 PM

1. Austin - Some of the worst "science" and "philosophy" I've ever seen. He's been worse for the university than the tailgating murderer IMO.
2. Fauntleroy - The only F I got at State.
3. Schwarz - Anal. The kind of guy that would call people out for leaving early. What is this, high school?

4/30/2008 12:40:08 PM

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"Maxine Thompson"

By far the worst I've ever had. No control of the classroom. Last Spring she didn't show up for 2 classes in a row because she "forgot" about daylight savings time and hadn't turned her clocks ahead an hour.

4/30/2008 12:46:38 PM

I was pretty sure I talked to Orji about curving grades and he made a comment about how he never curves. Maybe I misheard or he was just telling me that..oh well. He's gone. Kinda sucks after the curve still 50% failed the class. Probably was a shitty curve.


He's still around campus though, i see him once or twice a semester. He started a custom organic synthesis company and he contracts out to local and national companies.

4/30/2008 12:47:04 PM

I was also in CH 101 with Orji the semester he got fired. He taught the class for about two weeks, so I didn't really get the full effect of how horrible he was. After I heard the horror stories, I was really glad that I got a new teacher. I'm terrible at chemistry anyway, so I don't need a terrible teacher on top of it.

4/30/2008 12:49:59 PM

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"Walsh "

I've learned a lot from Dr. Walsh, I like Dr. Walsh. He is the type of person that really likes to teach you and help you out with things.

4/30/2008 1:15:38 PM

I have heard bad things about Siewart and Silber both of the math department.

In Siewart's class I had gotten a question wrong on an exam and the person beside me did the exact same work, with the same answer I had, though she received credit.

Thinking my answer was incorrectly marked I brought my exam and hers up to him and asked if there was a mistake. He remarked that he should have not given her credit either as both of our answers were incorrect. At that point he lowered her score!

4/30/2008 1:20:22 PM

I was waiting for someone to mention Gregory Young. WORST teacher by far, and a complete and utter asshole to boot.

4/30/2008 2:19:30 PM

OMG plz to do me?

4/30/2008 2:20:32 PM

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"She may have some ill bitch tendencies but still a good teacher. "

man fuck that bitch...seriously...i was turning in my fucking student information sheet that she made our online class turn in the first week....its like 5:35...at 6 i have a class and wanted to go to the bookstore before then


she makes me fucking redo half the thing cause she said i didnt put enough effort into her answers or something....shes like "are you in a hurry" and i'm like "yeah i got to go to biltmore(shes in nelson) and i have to go to the bookstore first"....she made me rewrite my answers for 15 minutes....and she had such a fucking douchebag attitude...fuck that bitch...she aint no good teacher...a good teacher isnt a bitch and cause her students to be late, espcially when they tell you they are in a hurry to the bookstore and then class...

4/30/2008 2:23:19 PM

CHUKWU by far

4/30/2008 2:24:25 PM

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"Some of the worst "science" and "philosophy" I've ever seen. He's been worse for the university than the tailgating murderer IMO. "

Yeah, I was talking about THIS Austin earlier.

He gives philosophy a VERY bad name and turns lots of people off to it.

[Edited on April 30, 2008 at 2:29 PM. Reason : .]

4/30/2008 2:28:33 PM

haha I love how orji won this thread, def my least favorite prof at ncsu

4/30/2008 2:36:15 PM

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"Anal. The kind of guy that would call people out for leaving early. What is this, high school? "

This girl I know was talking about Wake Tech and how this teacher they called Mrs. Stewart or something sent this girl to time out.

I was like don't you call them professor? I'm glad I went to NC State.

4/30/2008 2:47:50 PM

i could name a few right now

4/30/2008 2:49:47 PM

^ do they teach ethics?

4/30/2008 2:50:25 PM

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"I don't think that there is a lack of thinking. I'm an Engineering Major, I just don't think in the way Philosophy or CHASS majors do. I think it is different styles of thinking."

i don't think there's a single thing i'm more tired of hearing than this.

4/30/2008 2:52:55 PM

no, modeling ^^

4/30/2008 2:53:29 PM

^^ A kid tried to pull that shit in one of my world lit classes after he got a C on a test and the professor ripped into him like there was no tomorrow...and told an amusing story about how she got a B in chem after failing the first test when she was in college.

4/30/2008 2:57:17 PM