What do you do if a professor is mean when you ask for help during their office hours?

[DramaticTaeyeon"]

Soooo, I'm kinda scared of going to a (mean) professor during office hours to ask for help. Have you encountered something like this?

[Owlsarecool15]

Hahaha yes!

 

My Chemistry professor is so mean.

 

I got help from friends that are majoring in Chemistry to help me.

 

Maybe you can ask for help from your peers?

[evil4life]

report them, they get paid to teach and help people learn and if they can't do exactly that they picked the wrong profession. and i dont care if their tenured or not i'd still complain!!

[GUILD]

Soooo, I'm kinda scared of going to a (mean) professor during office hours to ask for help. Have you encountered something like this?

Go. He doesn't have a choice lol. Unless he;s a dick and he's not going to help you and you're essentially wasting your time, in which case: tell his authorities and in the mean time, seek out another instructor of the same field.

[Gloupsidou]

tell the head of the dept. (if you're in uni) and report them

 

rest = just report them.

 

They're there to help you

[D Kawaii Adventurs Of Ayyu]

i email instead, coz im akward face to face

 

edit: was he actually mean when u asked for help or are u too scared to ask?

 

if he s being mean u should probably complain

[AKPuser_ndproud]

get some courage u pathetic HUMAN 

[Buns]

If I am legitimately too afraid to ask a professor to benefit my future than I know I need to make a serious complaint.

Email works too.

[Nini Bear]

ignore and pretend like I didn't hear he/she was being mean. they are teachers/professors for a reason.

[Dickâ„¢]

I'll show him SNSD so that he can see the light and the blessing and eventually will be nice to me as a fellow SONE.

[gno]

report. 

[DramaticTaeyeon"]

report them, they get paid to teach and help people learn and if they can't do exactly that they picked the wrong profession. and i dont care if their tenured or not i'd still complain!!

 

 

Go. He doesn't have a choice lol. Unless he;s a dick and he's not going to help you and you're essentially wasting your time, in which case: tell his authorities and in the mean time, seek out another instructor of the same field.

 

 

tell the head of the dept. (if you're in uni) and report them

 

rest = just report them.

 

They're there to help you

Yea that would be most logical; but at the same time YOUR GRADE is in their hand :0

[KoreaxxLove]

Mean as in how? It's not acceptable to be mean, but I had an English professor who was pretty frank and blunt. It helped A LOT.

[Gloupsidou]

Yea that would be most logical; but at the same time YOUR GRADE is in their hand :0

 

If they're judged unfit to fulfill their role as a teacher, someone else usually grades your work instead (esp. if you're in uni), or you can ask for recorrection from a teacher committee. 

[fus1on]

i would probably be blunt and ask him "why the hell do you have office hours if you're not going to help"

[ksxtryker]

If you don't want to ask a professor, then your next best option would be the TA. Or you can ask classmates for help too.

[Seultoria]

Cut a silent but deadly fart before you leave his office and make sure to close the door.

[I Was Pon This Wei]

Do you have a TA for your class? If you do, ask your TA, if not, I'd say check to see if your university has a free tutoring center for the subject the class is in and if not then if you absolutely need help, I'd e-mail them.

 

I try and go to each of my professor's office hours at the beginning of the semester to try and get a feel for them and normally if they're mean during office hours, it's not even worth it for me because most of the times they're impatient and don't end up helping you. I'm (and you shouldn't) waste your time with someone who's not even going to help during a time they said they can.

[GratedCheese]

Some professors appear mean but deep down they may be an angel haha. =P

If not you can ask your peers, or if in need of the professor, try approaching, if he's really mean, report or ask your tutor / facilitator.

[GUILD]

Yea that would be most logical; but at the same time YOUR GRADE is in their hand :0

What does that mean? 0.o

 

It's not like this is highschool and you didn't try all year long and when you got to ask your teacher for a bump up to a passing grade, he thinks about it and says no cause you've been a scrub all year long.

[GUILD]

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[Kaity]

just go lol what is he mean because he hates seeing students during office hours? most professors love when you come as them for help just because he's mean in class doesnt mean he hates helping people

[pizza]

ignore and pretend like I didn't hear he/she was being mean. they are teachers/professors for a reason.

yeah so they get a paycheck annually which we are helping to pay with out college institution 

[midnightpanda]

I would just ignore the professor after that. There are other resources around, and I don't want to deal with office drama. If he was too mean, report it to the office. But usually, professors are very nice. May be he was just in a temporary bad mood?