College Lesson Learned #12

#12- College professors have no problem kicking the entire class out.

If you think I'm kidding, forget it. It happened to me, well I mean my class. The professor kicked the entire class out of the classroom. Crazy right? Sit back, relax, and let me tell you the story of how we got out of class about forty minutes early.

It was a typical day, there was weather of some sort, and we went to class. My professor was out of town because she was getting married. I think? Going to a wedding? I don't remember the details. Our teacher was MIA and so we had a sub. We tried to watch clips from the movie Blood Diamond because we were reading a book that dealt with these children soldiers. Anyway, after what felt like hours of this teacher struggling with the most basic of technology, the play button, she gave up and wouldn't let us help her out. Note: There are only two types of people who are bad with technology: the ones who look for help and the ones who refuse it. This professor did NOT want help of any sort. So we moved onto the questions. 

Like I said before, we didn't actually watch much of any of the film, so asking questions on the film wasn't very helpful. Then this substitute tried asking questions connecting the movie to the reading because we failed miserably at the previous questions. Our REAL professor usually prompts us before the questions, and eases us into conversation... this one did not. She just jumped right in, and was mad at us for not responding, immediately, even though she scared the living poop out of us. Then she growled, LITERALLY GROWLED (for the record, it was a growl but it wasn't like a real growl, it was more comparable to a shitzu or a rat terrier). After her pathetic growl, she grabbed her stuff told us to leave and then stormed out of the room. 

Nobody moved. We were all too stunned to move, so we sat there in silence, trying to take all this in. What the flip just happened? We were all a little confused to say the least. She came back about twenty seconds later, and said, "I told you to leave, when I'm gone, that means that you're gone too." 

And that was the last time I ever saw her.

Now when our professor got back the following week, we were in big trouble. Apparently, no one in the class did the reading for the day the sub was there. At least that's what the sub told her. Now I'd like to stop and point out that I actually did the reading for this day, in fact, I read the WHOLE book! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Maybe others in the classroom read College Lesson Learned #10 when I put it on
Facebook and jumped to the same conclusion as I had explained in the previous blog, and that would be that you don't always have to do the reading. I don't know, I'm not them. However, I know that I was in trouble, and I didn't deserve it.

Moral: Professors- DO NOT HAVE SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS!!! They do NOT work well in a different dynamic. Students- Either do the reading, make up stuff on the spot, or telepathically read the mind of your substitute so you can answer her questions that don't make any sense.