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No excuse to not to know professor before signing up
By Mike Meiler
On May 4, 2012
The semester is winding down, which means a few things for college students.
Stressed-out scholars are cramming for exams. Whether you're a carefree commuter
or a relaxed resident, chances are you're feeling the end-of-the-semester heat.
There's nothing that can relieve the stress of finals once a student is engulfed in
them. The only way for the average student to avoid a pre-break breakdown is to
put in the hours early in the semester, before he or she is overcome with work. A
few extra hours of research early in the semester are just as valuable as those late in
the year, minus the daunting feeling of needing to finish by a certain date.
Spending a few hours before every semester on sites like Rate My Professor can do a
lot to quell the mental fatigue students suffer from late in every semester.
There isn't a student out there who hasn't heard of Rate My Professor, and it's
probably safe to say that the vast majority of students at least give the sight a quick
peek while picking classes.
Still, it's appalling when students complain about their course work when they
chose to take the class. Sure, some classes are required, and those students get
a pass, but if you chose a class without doing enough research beforehand, you
deserve to suffer the consequences.
Sites like Rate My Professor are lazy students' best friends. Nobody knows a student
better than he knows himself, and therefore, nobody can set the student up better
for success than he can for himself.
If you're bad at attending classes, you can find a professor with a so-so attendance
policy. If you like challenging professors, they're there too. The beauty of rating sites
is that they give students the ability to know what they're getting into before they
chose a class.
RMP-like sites are so helpful, in fact, that I'd challenge the school to create their
own. Teacher evaluations are done on Angel now, creating a compact database of
everything students have written about a professor. It would benefit students just as
much as it benefits teachers to know what is being written on those reviews.
It's borderline depressing hearing students complain about being overwhelmed at
the end of a semester when they're the only one responsible for their being in the
class.
There are databases out there with valuable information that can help students
set themselves up for success. There's room for them to expand, but it's only the
students' fault if they don't use them. Please, in the future, click before you pick.
Mike Meiler can be reached by email at meiler.record@gmail.com.
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