I had a college English teacher ding me on a paper for using the word "dregs," which she claimed was not a word at all.
I had a college teacher for a digital art class. The class was once or twice a week and it was basically four assignments with very little direction. The students were expected to know basic art concepts. I came in not knowing that but knowing basic computer concepts. I was the only technical one in the class.
So anyway the teacher literally isn't teaching, just overseeing us on our computers. So I would just pop in some headphones and listen to Howard Stern while working. This professor *hated* me for that. He would complain about my headphones but I would just ignore him. So long as my work was done and on time and followed the assignment it should be no big deal.
Before he hated me, one of the assignments was due and I didn't print out the art correctly. He told me that he docked me for that but if that was a problem at the end of the semester he would boost my grade back up because I didn't have an art background.
By the end of the course he hated me and gave my final assignment and low grade giving me a C for the class and putting my scholarship in jeopardy. I sent him a nasty email that, looking back, could have caused me some trouble (I was threatening to go to the head of the department but the 'threat' could be read as a physical one if he wanted to take it that way)
...and the guy changed my grade to an A and I passed the class and kept my scholarship.
Then there was this other class. The first day of this class I'm two minutes late and the old hag teacher says to me as I enter, "Go sit over there" and motions to a specific desk. A couple of other people came in late and she did the same thing. I then realized that she was assigning seats. In a college class. She then tells us how to pass paper around in a specific way when she passes out a handout because she has OCD or something.
I immediately realize that I'm going to have a very difficult time with this teacher and it's in both of our best interests for me to drop this class.
This bitch then explains that other than today, if you're late to class, the door will be shut and if the door is shut you are not allowed to come in. Tardiness is not tolerated for any reason. First, I don't think you can actually enforce that if I'm paying for the class.
So of course -- by the end of the very first day of class, it's time for dismissal. The class is done, and this bitch keeps us late because she's not done talking. I'm out of my mind pissed at her. I know I'm going to drop the class. Then she says, "If you're going to drop this class don't leave here without telling me so we can talk about it."
For whatever reason, one hour of this bitch's class that I wound up dropping traumatized me. She was really old so she must be dead by now. The sheer hypocrisy -- don't be late to my class but I'll make you late to your next class just killed me.
