It’s bound to happen at some point in your higher education. Sure, there will be professors that you just don’t like. Maybe your personalities clash, maybe you don’t like their style, maybe a single incident will just leave a bad taste in your mouth. It’s par for the course.
But the day will come when it’s not just a simple dislike and you just work through it anxious for the class to end and the class to be over. No, this will be a big deal. The day you have to log a formal complaint and make waves.
In grad school complaints aren’t made lightly and there’s always concern about the consequences. So what are the breaking points when it comes to deciding to file a complaint?
For me, there was a lot, as I’ve never logged a complaint at any point when I returned to school. I’ve had plenty that I didn’t like, be it their style or personality, and plenty of instances where I think they were wrong. But, that’s part of sharing any space, for any reason ,with any other human beings. It’s an assumed experience and so is learning how to handle it on your own.
But no, this was a professor that made class a complete waste of time (and when you’re paying around 4 grand for that class) wasting time matters. She was 5-15 minutes late to class every week and ran over the end time by about 15 minutes. She didn’t teach the work in the syllabus review the work, discuss concepts ,answer questions or explain assignments. She was also exceptionally rude, if she didn’t like your answer or even the direction of your answer you’d get an eye roll, sigh, or being cut off and moving on to the next person.
But ,my moment came when there was less than 2 weeks left to the class and not a single grade had been issued nor had any of the work been covered that was needed to write the 15 page final paper due in less than 14 days.
So I did the thing I didn’t want to do and bought all the documentation and complaints to the leadership if the departments and program…..and now I wait.
…..until next week
herewesayf&@#k!!! 