Music and culture in chart form. Can you explain music and culture in charts?

 

« Previous | Next »


When My Professor Will Assign a Project


song chart memes

When My Professor Will Assign a Project

Graph by allisonnbby, via our GraphJam builder.

» Wanna make your own? Go for it!

Incorrect source or offensive?
  • Share on Facebook
  • Copy & paste this:

» 51 TPS Reports

  1. lufflaff says:

    [that's very interesting]

  2. Kamikaze14 says:

    So freaking true.

  3. chelsea says:

    Man, it’s just never your fault is it? time management, retard.

  4. RJ says:

    I just want to continue the god/no god debate.

  5. alien says:

    FAIL
    The incident in the biggest slice can happen along with the incidents which are in the smaller slices, at the same time.
    -
    In other words, this can be interpreted on a venn diagram and the smaller slices will be subsets in the bigger slice.

  6. Failer says:

    Or, stop making unfunny graphs and plan your time better.

  7. Literal says:

    It’s called a “syllabus.” You may want to look at it the first week of the semester.

    • SKW says:

      Unless the projects weren’t on the syllabus. It’s really common in art classes for the teachers to all assign big projects they just came up with the previous night.

      • Literal says:

        I’ll concede that liberal arts profs are less organized on the deadlines for the big projects than those in the maths and sciences!

        • Tobias says:

          I won’t.

          • SKW says:

            You must never have had one, then. Or your school is some kind of organizational Nazi school.

            • Literal says:

              I have three degrees, and am an academic advisor/instructor for an
              extremely rigorous degree program in the sciences, so I’m pretty good
              at ascertaining professor organizational ability. Besides, I check rateyourprofessor.com and an instructor’s evaluation average before I advise students.

              Profs at my school have been successfully sued for widely deviating from
              the content of their syllabi. If your profs’ expectations are so vastly divergent from what’s laid out within it, you need to contact the chair of the department in question. Syllabi are essentially contracts, and can be seen as such for student expectation purposes.

              • Literal says:

                Ack. Sorry for the spacing … my Firefox is freaking out.

              • SKW says:

                Precisely. You’re an academic advisor in sciences. Not art. Art teachers rarely have precise, laid out syllabi with all their projects. There is always a clause in the schedule that says that it is tentative and subject to change. They almost always change it. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

                • Literal says:

                  Umm … that’s what I said, SKW! I was being serious …

                  I’ll concede that liberal arts profs are less organized on the deadlines for the big projects than those in the maths and sciences!

                  • SKW says:

                    Sorry, I thought I was talking to Tobias. My apologies, my response was with the assumption that you were flaunting your education while ignoring my input. Paying attention fail on my part.

                  • Nerdette says:

                    Liberal arts refers to a type of education, not specific branches like arts or sciences.

                    • Literal says:

                      The state colleges where I reside have Colleges of Liberal Arts (and Colleges of Sciences) that are inclusive of the profs to whom I was referring.

              • ObviousProf says:

                That’s why I make sure to add a lot of good reviews to my own ‘RateMyProfessor’ page….

            • Tehshay says:

              Um, let me poke my head in here.

              No.

              That’s about all.

              As an English teacher, I know that I wouldn’t want an assignment to be, well, assigned if it wasn’t on the syllabus, because that would mean my whole grading schedule would be thrown off.

              Ever tried to grade 80 portfolios from freshmen in college in the span of a few days?

  8. SKW says:

    Yeah it’s great when three art teachers assign final projects that weren’t in the syllabus and your two education teachers assign structured due date projects at the same time. Man people need to talk to each other.

    • Swhitty says:

      They do talk to each other… they plan it, to stress you out, and hopefully kill you with a work overdose, less students, less stress for them :)

  9. Dex says:

    So. true. it’s. not even. funny. lol.

  10. Literal says:

    Seconded.

  11. DrHorrible says:

    FFS. What’s wrong with people? Why do people just come on here to comment on A HUMOUR board – and let’s face it, that’s all it is, and if there’s something you don’t like or appreciate, THE INTERNET ISN’T RUNNING OUT OF SPACE SO IT DOESN’T MATTER – and all they do is post venom. It’s just stupid, if you ask me. More stupid than you claim this graph to be.

  12. crazykitteh says:

    Oh, stop complaining. Maybe if you didn’t spend time doing these graphics, you’d finish your projects.

  13. Marco Polio says:

    So true.

  14. Ennauriel says:

    Story of my life.

  15. EdMuse says:

    I’m a college professor. In the arts, in fact.

    I don’t put all of my assignments and due dates in the syllabus.

    I can’t even imagine having my courses be so rigidly outlined, and not leaving myself and my students the flexibility to tailor their educational experience to the individual class.

    That said, my only real problem with this graph is….
    Is the person who made the graph really blaming her prof for assigning things EARLY, so that she has the time to work on it as she pleases? It’s her professors’ fault that she can’t remember to do her homework?

  16. Kaija says:

    oh you are all silly just do the work, yes it sucks, yes its hard and most of time its ridiculous, but if you put it off just do the one you care about the most, for reasons of grades, or major requirement class, or just because you like it more, then bs the rest. you may get a bad grade on the other two but in the future I doubt you’ll say, “damn, I really wish I would have done better on that paper on the Ramayana”. (Personal Experience) :P

  17. mukashi says:

    or when my winter vacation starts T_T

  18. Jamie says:

    Must be nice to not have to work and go to school. I’m 19 and I work two jobs to afford my bills and go to school. If you are a college instructor, you have really proven how non caring most teachers have become, and how they just want to get paid. Maybe you should take a second look at what you’re doing. Also, since when isn’t college for everyone? How encouraging….

  19. T says:

    That’s an understandable perspective for some, however, from the standpoint of one having 24 hours each day, having to eat sleep and pay the rent, and teachers being only focused on their course, sometimes “TIME MANAGEMENT 101″, though comically condescending as it is, doesn’t quite cut it. It’s funny, I suppose the students’ education as a whole at any given time is no longer a concern to most individual professors, and students make the mistake of thinking that universities are about the students.

  20. Leonidas says:

    The problem is every professor/teacher thinks their class is the center of your life. I dealt with it, came out and all that, but I still see the validity of a complaint that they all think their students have time to do national debt sized projects. I had 3 jobs while taking college classes and wrestling (I was in high school but going to college) and I managed to pull it off, though my health suffered from lack of sleep/proper amounts of food…

  21. Hannah says:

    All of my teachers assigned a project at the same time (Which I’m currently procastinating on)

  22. Sam says:

    How about you guys stop making the damn excuses and realize not everyone has 50 hours in a day to do the s**t you guys assign! “time manegement” isn’t going to help the fact that sometimes people just can’t get s**t done on time!

  23. Rendruk says:

    Here’s just a nice suggestion: How about we go to classes, take notes, study what we are being taught and learn it — then, we all take a test to prove that we have learnt what we were being taught.

    How about we leave it up to the student to learn what he/she needs to learn and retain it. It is their life.

    I say this because I am tired of unnecessary papers and projects. For my first two years in college, every professor thought it was the most important thing in the world to teach us how to cite works in the proper format. I got it the first time, thanks. They didn’t seem to realize there was more than one format, or seem to realize that writing a big paper just to teach us how to cite works was not needed, we could just learn how to cite.

    I just don’t understand what they’re trying to teach, or why it’s being taught to me over and over again. If I want to learn how to write, I’ll take a writing course.

    I took a public speaking course, and the very next semester I had to give a speech in Human Ecology. Part of the syllabus was “learn how to communicate effectively”. No thanks, I came here to learn about Ecology, not how to give a speech.

  24. Steph says:

    Actually asked a prof why once. They have deadlines too. And they procrastinate just as much as we do.


Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Newsletter Sign-up