oh screw it.
I will vote after you recieve your grade.
(I say this because you got 65 years to work with. I’m sure you came up with something 
)
I don’t care.
No offense, but I say suck it up sister - no matter how unfair this sort of stuff seems, it’s nothing compared to what you’ll have to deal with once you get out of school and into the real world. Life is hard.
I’m sure that’s not what you want to hear, but that’s the reality of it.
Loren
First, I’m kidding around.
Second, the difference is that you’re worrying about something that you can not control and may or may not happen (the bad grade). Your professor was essentially correct. 2/3 of his timeline in the question falls within what he told you it would be. As I said above, surely you could come up with 4 thinigs that occurred between 1800 - 1865 and make a valid case for why they were important. Maybe even throw one in from 1776 (hmmm, I wonder what happened then?)
I just wonder what your professor would think after he finds you plastered his name on the internet for a personal gripe…
Having had a similar situation, where a prof told all the students to do one thing (keep their essay to one page) then gave everyone a failing grade because their papers were too short, I stood up and said, “These grades suck!” Not my most eloquent moment but what made me most angry was seeing the cowering compliance by the rest of the crew in the class. You could practically see the new pimples forming from anxiety. I was a whole year more experienced than the rest of em, who had come straight from high school.
The teacher, shocked by the insolence but a vulnerable person, agreed to meet with “those of us who wanted to niggle up their grades” (her words), which of course I did. Went from a D to a B, thereby ending the only possible D I ever would have got in anything anywhere.
I hope you don’t fail but it sure will shoot yer GPA to hell if you do get a poor grade. makes ya wish you were an Ivy Leaguer rich kid who was only expected to scrape by…
Next time, go to Stanford (aka Snodfart) where no one fails a course. You can miss the whole year and take an incomplete for life…
I do not care.
I’m with ErikT here…if I’m correct in assuming that the course covered the time period which the final exam essay asked you to consider, and you’ve been keeping up with the studying all along (which, trust me, is the ONLY way to do it!) you should have been able to cough up something passable. Of course, if the question is “are you justified in hating your professor?” Well, sure if you want to. But it’s a waste of time and energy to hate anyone. I think I’d stick to thinking of him as a purveyor of snake oil, or somesuch.
Right now, you’re stressed out. I’m sure you did better than you think you may have.
It sounds like you had a tough quarter, and an “excentric” prof.
Next quarter, be sure and take a class that you know will be fun and you’ll enjoy. My Art History class was a kick!
In the long run, nobody will ever care what kind of grade you made in any History class.
Mary
I really do not care.
I like the way that you started with a basic premise: “I don’t care.” and then really expanded upon it (ie. “I do not care.” … “I really do not care.”) That shows creativity and humor. I like it. A+
Feel better now Sam ??
no
The whole mainstream educational system (not just American, but what I’ve seen overseas, as well) is wacky. Not geared so much to seeing that a student learns something, but that the student is in sync with the instructor’s mindset well enough to pass quizzes and examinations, with short-term cramming that will be forgot in time for next semester’s cramming.
Is that an over-generalization? Yes, but I feel there is some truth in it.
Wald, my boy, those are what I call HOOP CLASSES. Jump through the hoop Mr. Student. Do just what I say and think what I think and then you MIGHT pass my class and get your revered diploma.
Hmmmm, wonder why I don’t have a degree? 
I don’t.
Oh, and when you tell someone to not do something or to not look at something, guess what happens? :roll:
Walden, that’s true of classes where things are subjective, and is why I’m a science geek. If I can, say, solve Gauss’s equations in a variety of geometries, I can. Half of the profs I ever had didn’t care how I did it, 49% loved it if I found an interesting way of solving it, and there was one bad egg who didn’t like it if I didn’t do things exactly the way he’d taught. OTOH, if I thought an English (history, philosophy, etc.) teacher was full of crap the way she interpreted a book/essay/event, and I offered different views of things, I was universally marked down. (All you have to do is read one of the philosophical or political threads on C&F to see that there are many valid interpretations of just about anything.) The very people whose job it is to expand your mind and to teach you to think for yourself really only wanted to make automata who would regurgitate what they had fed us.
I found life much less stressful when I decided that I was in school to learn what I wanted to learn, and crappy grades from crappy teachers/profs ceased to bother me.
I think it’s been pretty well established time and time again that outside of mathematics and to some degree the hard sciences, the world of academia is nothing but a joke.
Hell, the philosophy prof I had last year even admitted that it was all BS on the first day and told us that the sooner we realized it the better off we’d be.
Not my experience.
That’s just rubbish, Sam. IMHO, of course.
I agree with Sam here. I have my social science final in about two hours, and the class has been nothing but 10 weeks of completely odd philosophy, all BS in my opinion. However, the instructors wouldn’t admit that. They did admit in class that an unstated goal of the course was to produce a crisis in our minds and change the way we think. And the material presented was very one-sided.
It is a common perception among students, (here at least), that our social science and humanities programs are nothing but forums for indoctrination into postmodernism, deconstructionism, moral and scientific relativism, and a nice side dish of collectivist and so-called multiculturalist politics. Disclaimer: The liberal students see the bias also, not just us conservatives. The only difference is that they agree with most of it.