Professors

Professor bans coffee from his 8 AM class, much to the dismay of his student who works nights and only gets 5 hours of sleep: 'How do I survive mornings without it?'

Emmy Pratt

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Meet Purrfessor Max: the campus cat who's spent years greeting students, riding backpacks, and joining college tours, has earned him an honorary 'doctor of litter-ature' title

Ayala Sorotsky

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Statistics professor demands improbable equal effort for 4-student group project—1 doesn't help, all 4 claim an impossible 33% equal share—group invents new math making 132%=100%: 'The professor was confused. "That adds up to 132%, how is that possible?"'

Brad Dickson

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Professor had special rules about formatting in essays and expected every student to follow them, one student complied, but it wasn’t what he expected: ‘By the next essay, the formatting section of the syllabus had basically doubled in length.’

María Cetra

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College student forces professor to give them full credit for a blank essay after using professor's formatting rules against him: ‘I hadn't broken a single rule’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Professionals Discuss 10 Career Paths That Are Glorified By Society, But Are Actually Miserable in Reality: 'Too many people think farming is idyllic and simple.'

Emmy Pratt

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College student is forced to do group project alone without help from partners, gets rewarded by professor when he discovers who did all the work: ‘I got an A, and strangely, they stopped talking to me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Student uses a faulty AI detector to avoid being expelled from college and manages to graduate and later become a professor: ‘It was my first allegation, to give me the benefit of the doubt, which they did.’

Olivia Arocena

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Professor assigns students an open-book take home exam, 25% of the class don't do it: 'It’s 40% of the total grade.'

Emmy Pratt

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University admin demands students change classes without giving them a valid reason, they involve the professor, who stands up to the admin: ‘She was basically lying’

Bar Mor Hazut

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College student cites his own professor's lackluster argument as a source for his thesis, professor has no choice but to accept the citation: '[It's] technically valid but in poor taste'

Ben Weiss

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Professor fails to inform student of test rescheduling, causing student to miss the exam, student demands to choose a new date: 'I got told to reshuffle my life'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Professor tells college class that critical thinking is not important: 'They grade assignments with AI, they respond to emails with AI, the teacher's assistant is AI.'

Emmy Pratt

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Student calls out entitled classmate for trying to plagiarize their work: 'I'm never offering to help him again'

Ben Weiss

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'So, you will be our competitor?': Department chair cancels promised academic position for PhD student, student forced to relocate, later secures job at a competing program, tells department chair that he plans to recruit all his former students

Emma Saven

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College student confronts partner on group project after discovering much of his portion was plagiarized the night before the due date: 'We need to rewrite everything'

Ben Weiss

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