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5/1/2008 12:01:56 AM

Nacoste FTMFW!

Sloan and Henard for my BUS classes.

And I can't remember his name, but my COM 110 Public Speaking teacher who use to be a newscaster (had the perfect voice/hair/look for it). Had a good newscaster name like "Stone" or something.

5/1/2008 12:06:24 AM

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"mike grimwood"

and Nick Halpern
and Doug Jesseph

5/1/2008 12:12:11 AM

also,

dr. bob bateman

fiction writing

he likes to talk about fishing and o'douls

5/1/2008 12:14:33 AM

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"CW and JK Townsend (they are more like an entity of complements)"

Huh? JK couldn't even do examples on the board without calling CW, and even then, it would take 10 extra minutes, and they still wouldn't always figure them out. It was a joke.

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" Conte "

I agree with Conte. The only one who seems interested in if you learn stuff or not.

5/1/2008 12:29:02 AM

Ive never had Solari for class, but vinyl and I have played some pickup with him (vb- he's got those old ferland pads)

Mine:
McElroy (EC) [liked his style and did well in his class, easy to talk to]
Margolis (EC) [same]
Huffman (PY) [really chill and had decent lectures. had for py506, which is in line with his research]
Reynolds (PY) [tough as all hell, but i think he's a good professor, you know your shit when you leave]
McCollum (MA) [perfect prof to have for your first class at state... had MA241 with her, she's got just enough of a 'motherly love' to her. expects you to do your work and is a hard ass on attendance, but will look out for her students, great lady. Despite being an attendance hard ass, you got like 10 points on your final if you missed fewer than 5 lectures. Not pretentious either, can call her Mrs. McCollum.]
Stitzinger (MA) [great teacher all around, nice guy, gentle demeanor, knows his shit]

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5/1/2008 12:29:54 AM

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"Dr. Patterson in Crop Science (had him for Biology though)"

5/1/2008 12:42:28 AM

I really liked Dr. Packer's COM 327 class, but i know some people thought he was an asshole. Best class I've taken at State though

5/1/2008 1:02:37 AM

how could I forget Wes Parker for Jazz History. funny, funny dude. Can't remember how many times he has brought up South Park or jackass in class. good stuff

5/1/2008 1:08:44 AM

carol miller

5/1/2008 1:38:31 AM

Dr. Joe Caddell- He talks about history as if he was there and knew all the people involved. Tons of great stories.

5/1/2008 1:46:32 AM

Some of my faves:

John Kessel teaches creative writing and some lit courses, plus co-heads the creative writing MFA with Barnhardt. He is one of the most singularly helpful professors I've had at State. He reads so many manuscripts from students and is really willing to help you improve.

I've had three classes with him: sci-fi lit, a special topics course in writing speculative fiction, and creative writing 488. He's supportive without sugar-coating and damn funny. He likes to see his students succeed.

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence made up of short stories from the last ten years, as someone mentioned above. It's really clever stuff, and I'm sure he'd be happy to autograph a copy if youu dropped by his office to say you enjoyed it.

Someone even made him a facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Kessel/17133511130
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Vladimir Bilenkin is basically the entire Russian department. I minored in Russian, so I've taken six classes with him over the last few years. I think he's a pretty good teacher, but the real reason he's one of my favorites is his cultural perspective. He immigrated here from Russia in the 1980s, and tells these wonderful and sometimes creepy stories about growing up in the USSR.

Even if you don't take the language classes, he offers two Russian literature courses (all readings in English). FLR 303 is 19th century and includes things like Anna Karenina and Chekhov. FLR 304 is 20th century and includes a lot of Nabokov and some Soviet writers. It's kind of like a study of the Soviet period through literature. The reading load is sizable, but I managed to get most of my reading done almost solely on the Wolfline. If you like historical contect of literature, this is the class for you.
Besides the reading, he asks you to complete a short-answer type exam for each work. It's basically two or three questions for a total of two or three pages, so I felt like the workload was really balanced.

If you want to know more about the Russian minor or language classes, ask me. If you're strapped for cash, you buy one $20 book (it comes with multiple workbooks) and you use it for three semesters. Can't beat the economy of it. It was also originally published during the Soviet days, so it also gives an interesting history lesson.

Doug Jesseph taught ancient and medieval philosophy and that was the only course I took with him. I can't say enough good things about it. I've never forgotten most of the major concepts and he explained them in memorable ways. His descriptions of Plato's theory of the forms and the allegory of the cave were personal favorites. He's an atheist, but he doesn't let that temper his objectivity. HE makes fun of all beliefs equally, but I never felt like he ridiculed anyone, ever. (He does "pick" on people he likes to give answers in class, but it's all very friendly.)

Great class, great professor. I wish I could have taken more classes with him. He even said he won a Leon Trotsky look-alike contest as a young man, and I'm still not sure if it's b.s. or not.


I also really like William Kimler and Bob Beckmann. They work with Jefferson Scholars, so I've gotten to know them pretty well--especially Kimler.
I've taken history of science with Kimler, but he's also a Darwin scholar. I took plants in civilization with Beckmann and I'll never look at bananas the same way again.

Stu Warren was one of my favorite hort profs, but he's left for greener pastures.

(I'm avoiding studying for exams, can you tell?)

5/1/2008 2:11:44 AM

Ralph Craig, hands down for me.

I was not even a math major and the dud really whipped me into a shape. He was as good as it gets.

5/1/2008 2:35:53 AM

Marvin Hunt

5/1/2008 6:54:40 AM

Dr. Figgins
Dr. Mitin
and the guy who taught social deviance was kick ass but I can't remember his name

oh yeah, and Dr. Brewer. One of the few classes where I looked forward to whatever she would talk about that session.

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5/1/2008 6:57:41 AM

Ah yes....the Orgeron duo!!

Film and Literature had to be one of the best classes ever!

5/1/2008 7:23:49 AM

all i have to say about Nacoste is that if you take him for Psych and its in that big lecture room for Poe and you're running late.......do NOT walk into the lower doors if they are shut

5/1/2008 7:26:28 AM

Oh my god, I can't believe I forgot to list MINDY SOPHER. Public speaking lecturer (so I guess she's not technically my favorite "professor," but whatever )

What was I thinking?!

If you've had her and she's not near or at the top of your list, you're doing it wrong. If you haven't had her, take her class now.

5/1/2008 8:53:24 AM

schwalbe and dellafave

5/1/2008 9:15:31 AM

Kay Gilley in the Business Department

5/1/2008 9:18:51 AM

^^^ Second Mindy Sopher. She was great and really cared about her students. I still run into her from time to time.

I also enjoyed Dr. Alexander (ECE). He was always entertaining and explained things well.

5/1/2008 9:20:35 AM

I can't believe no one said Anita Flick yet.

5/1/2008 12:03:13 PM

tavakoli
caddell
sloan

5/1/2008 12:12:15 PM

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"Dr. Joe Caddell- He talks about history as if he was there and knew all the people involved. Tons of great stories. "

definitely. had him 8am over the summer and loved EVERY class.

5/1/2008 12:13:12 PM

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"Dr. Patterson in Crop Science (had him for Biology though)"

haha...i ♥ Dr. Patterson....I don't think he was a particularly good professor....but I've never had another one that cared (about EVERYTHING) as much as this man....I had him for Intro to Crop Science and World Food and Population....he cried at least once a week in each class...

I also happened to be pledge educator in my sorority the semester i was in his CS class....and he was the advisor of our big brother fraternity...i was way behind on a lot of shit and not doing too well in the class...i failed the shit out of a test one friday after a mixer/party that I had been at all night and was probably drunk when i took the test since it was an 8:05 class....i told him how busy i had been with pledge and that the mixer had cut into my study time and i just wasn't prepared and i thought i was going to fail his class and then i started crying...i think i ended up with a B in the class and probably didn't deserve more than a D+....

to be fair....all his tests were 2938742398 pages long with 1-2 questions per page....and he liked diagrams A LOT....you could draw a diagram that made absolutely no sense and get full credit, but if you tried to actually write out an explanation to answer the question he would destroy you....

FYI...if you ever take one of Patterson's classes the answer to every question is "biological nitrogen fixation in corn"...if only I had figured that out sooner

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"BILLY FLOWERS. hands down. best. evar."

i ♥ Billy as well....I enjoyed his class quite a bit...and he got a great deal of entertainment at my expense...i was always late for class and i came to lab bitching about something one day, which was nothing unusual....he stops whatever it was he was talking about and says "So Casey...what's pissing you off today? Please share...I'm sure it's something good!"...then he starts laughing at me...and i start laughing too (what else was there for me to do)...he then proceeds to tell me that i'm the most high strung individual he's ever had the pleasure of teaching in his 30 years and his class would be incredibly boring without me....

btw...the mofo can play basketball like nobody's business.....which is shocking since he looks like a 15 year old version of John Denver...

and i like Mindy Sopher as well but she worked in the Greek Life office when I was in school....she worked hard for us and was battling cancer at the same time....i truly admire her...


but to answer the original question....Carm Parkhurst

5/1/2008 12:38:52 PM

Caddell is also a good choice. Always an interesting class.

And it's true, he talked about history like he was there for everything. It was hard to tell, sometimes, when to take notes and when he was just telling a story.

5/1/2008 12:48:49 PM

BTTT...Caddell is on channel 18 (the education channel) teaching Modern American History.

He is absolutely interesting enough to watch for entertainment.

5/19/2008 9:47:16 PM

Bilenkin and Halpern were my two favorites. Oh, and Wilton Barnhardt, who was an awesome Oxford advisor as well.

5/19/2008 9:50:37 PM