15. Schedule tests the day before/after school breaks.
Thinking of leaving town a day early or coming back a day late? Forget about it. These professors are working tirelessly to make sure that no one even has the option to skip class.
14. Take attendance.
It’s a 1,000 person lecture hall, but they still make you sign in and assign points just for showing up. If you habitually go to class every single day, then they’re easy points for you. However, if you get sick, tired, or just don’t want to show up and listen to another boring lecture, you get docked. Let us make the choice to go to class or not, Professor!
13. Go off on long, pointless tangents.
How do you know your anthropology professor spent eight years with some obscure indigenous tribe in the middle of the Congo? Don’t worry, he’ll tell you. He’ll tell you over and over and over again until it’s the end of the semester and you’ve hardly covered anything on the syllabus.
12. Lose track of time and then shout something potentially very important while everyone is talking and zipping up their backpacks.
When the professor’s tangent inevitably causes him to run over his allotted class time, that’s when he chooses to shout out the important requirements for an upcoming paper or crucial things to study for tomorrow’s test…while everyone is chattering and zipping and getting ready to leave. Thanks.
11. Ban eating or drinking in class.
Sure, he’s saving you from having to sit next to the kid who always brings smelly food to class, but he’s also telling you that you can’t drink water, coffee, or snack on anything like you’re a toddler or something.
10. Drone endlessly while reading from their PowerPoint Presentations.
A PowerPoint that hasn’t been edited since 1993, no less. Come on, at least spice it up a little!
