Posted: 9/24/2008 9:09:42 PM EDT
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For those of you with a liberal professor: Do you shut your mouth so you get a good grade or piss them off with your conservative views? My Phych101 prof is a flaming liberal. Quit class early to watch Obama speech. I think I rocked the boat a bit when I said I was going home to watch McCain. He's been kind of indifferent with me since. I'm still getting an A but I wonder if I really got into it with him if my grade would suffer... |
All of my professors are flaming liberals. One gave extra credit for going to an Oshithead rally and "analyzing" the speech.  I asked him if I could go to the Palin event and do the same, and I have not received an "a" on any paper since. I would just shut you mouth until Nov. 5th when the obomination loses and rub it in the profs. face. |
| The majority of Liberal Profs I have had were complete idiots. Chances are, you know more about the subject they are teaching than they do. At least, I have found this to be the case the majority of the time. If they make a big deal about their own politics, I make a big deal about mine. |
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Debate, voice your opinion (when appropriate) but be respectful. Remember, they have to justify the grade they give you. When you're right, you're right - if a grade looks wrong, confront them about it. If they don't give you a valid answer, take your concerns to the department head. 99 times out of 100, it will not go this far. Biggest thing with arguing with lib-tards... be polite, be respectful, don't get emotional - you win every time. Remember, they think with emotion, not logic. Remain logical and not emotional, support your stance with cold hard facts (unless debating religion which is a terrible idea) and you'll win every time. Make them support their views with knowledge, not "want". I went to the 2nd biggest Hippie Liberal school in NC, and will go back upon return from Iraq. I dealt with it a lot. Be nice, and don't worry about it. 
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So far, most of my professors don't bring up politics, one is a really funny conservative, and the other, while probably leaning to the left, does not mind different opinions. My friends in philosophy and psychology were not so lucky.  Thank God I chose business school! 
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Yes, he's a fucking liberal politician that knows more than anybody. |
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After term is over document the day and time that the prof did this. You are paying per credit hour. Calculate the lost time and ask the administratuion to refund the lost class time due to the lib-tard skipping to watch Obama. They won't do it, but it should get your point across. When I was in school, one of the pieces of advice I was given early on was to calculate the amount I was paying per class session. That was motivation to make sure the prof was giving me my moneys worth as well as making sure I only missed if I was REALLY sick. Its hard to skip when you know that dollar figure. |
Perhaps you should just ask for course credit by examination. I knew professors who were more than happy to take that bet. |
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Long ago, I was a smart alec in class, I would correct the prof infront of the class, some were happy when I missed class, annouced it to the class, and then definetly glowered and frowned when I walked in late. It cost me points. I learned the hard way, DON'T PERTURB THE PROF! It is simply not wise. These days, I am a good little, if somewhat flirty and playful, student. Respectful, polite. There have been many times that it has paid off. When I needed a break on grades, one prof rated me on my attendance, being on the front row, being attentive, and gave me C's. Another gave me an incomplete when I slept thru the final, enabled me to take it at the opening of the next semester. A third, when I had missed 2 or 3 days of class due to food poisoning said, "I was wondering what happened to you. You never miss class. You still look pretty under the weather. You don't need to take the final today. Go home and rest. You can take it at the end of the week with my freshman class." A lot of the profs I have had have had a major portion of the grade passed on "Instructor's Discretion". A letter grade worth that if you were struggling to get the data but you were trying, he could use it to pass you ............. and if you were a jerk, he could use it to drop you down some. Liberal or not, you're shooting yourself in the foot to argue with him. You don't like the way he teaches? There's the door (drop the class). ____________________________________________________ ("If you've been told once, you've been told a billion times; DON'T PROVOKE THE BORG!"--Q to Qjr., (w,stte), Voyager "Q2") |
Fuck that.  You do that as a student and you'll be doing it the rest of your life. Fact: 5 years after you leave college, no employer is going to give a shit if you made an A or a C in Sociology 101, especially if you're in engineering. |
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I'd say about 80% of my professors are liberals, and i let them have it every chance i get. So far my grades have been straight A's with the exception of an A-, which i actually deserved. I think the reason for this is that i go to a private college and if they simply tried to give me a bad grade because of my political views i could take it to the Dean and just let my work speak for itself. They know that, so even thought they hate me they still grade fairly. If I were in a State University i would try keep my mouth shut whenever i could, however i feel that it is my personal responsibility to keep all the ignorant students from buying every line of liberal propaganda that gets fed to them. It's my small contribution to society, and believe it or not, i got a few to question things enough that they started seeing things from both sides. If you can get them to do that, then it's not long before then come over to the dark side. 
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I was pretty good at playing the game...everyone thought that I was liberal since I had long hair and earrings in college...it was painful sometimes (to play the game), and I couldn't always hold back but overall it made things go more smoothly. One time I had to let it loose on someone in my "public speaking" class so stated that her whole purpose in life was to get a degree in political science, go to law school, become a lawmaker, and ban all guns in the US.
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Play the game their way, get your good grade and move on- I couldn't tell you most of my college professors names these days and I'm sure they've forgotten me. If and when you decide to go to grad school it has a way of coming back to haunt you since they weigh grades so heavily. <---- shoulda kept my mouth shut more often. 
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