My only (almost) F in college came in Middle Eastern politics-- which was pretty impressive for a Poli Sci major (who got As in all of my other major classes) to fail. I even got 12% on my final-- seriously, 12%!
The professor was just awful--- everything that's being discussed here and more. She loved the sound of her own voice and loved, loved, loved to wax poetic about the fact that she got her advanced degrees at a prestigious school in Israel.
Being Middle Easter politics, our textbooks used Arabic names/words for. . . well, a lot. This was difficult for us to learn, but we were good students and got together in study groups, made flash cards, did the whole studying shebang. The professor, unfortunately, felt it was necessary to use Hebrew words for the things the book was using Arabic words for. While this would maybe make sense in discussions regarding Israel, she did this for lectures about places with no ties to anybody speaking any Hebrew. No one understood her. When we'd ask her to clarify, she'd snap at us and screech that we were ignorant and need to be more worldly.
She also would kick people out of class for even indirectly suggesting that Israel might possibly have ever done anything wrong in history. I mean, literally anything. Even when we'd read something in our assigned text books that made them look less than stellar and would repeat it in class, she'd say we were wrong.
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Anonymous2012-06-06 14:42
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU YAWPING ABOUT NOW BITCH...!!!!