How to Get on a Professor's Bad Side

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If you don't want to be on good terms with your professor, it won't take much effort to reach your goal. UNPOSTED 8/6/99

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Step1
Skip the first class of the term. Later, ask for all the materials your professor handed out the first day. Ask, "Did I miss anything important?"
Step2
Arrive late most days. If you are attending a lecture, walk to the front of the hall, choose a seat in the middle of the front row and ask those around you what you've missed while you unzip your backpack and unload it.
Step3
Eat breakfast/lunch/dinner during class: choose chips in crinkly plastic bags, soda cans that pop when opened and large tupperware bowls filled with last night's casserole.
Step4
Talk to your friends while the professor is speaking, read the paper, avoid taking your books to class, keep your baseball cap on or take a nap.
Step5
Ask for special appointments to see your professor because his or her office hours are too early in the morning.
Step6
Have your professor "go over" your paper several times before you turn it in. Later tell him/her you should have gotten a higher grade because you worked so hard in coming in for help and he/she is not helping you enough.
Step7
Email your professor continually asking for "clarifications" on the assignment, or leave long, rambling messages on his or her voicemail asking for a return call even if it's long distance.
Step8
Dominate class discussion, find a counterpoint to every statement the professor makes, and get yourself noticed in a large lecture by raising your hand at regular intervals to ask a question that you and only you are "concerned" about.

Tips & Warnings

  • Always contest your grades.

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msoexpert

msoexpert said

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on 7/5/2008 I've had plenty of students over the years pull many of these things.

bvfieijdf

bvfieijdf said

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on 1/12/2007 man
i read your article.
funny
lol

Anonymous

Anonymous said

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on 7/30/2006 When the class is quite, like copying notes, stand up and break out into a chorus of Milkshake with matching dance routine and sit back down before the teacher sees you and pretend to take notes. It really works!

Anonymous

Anonymous said

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on 6/30/2006 Sing opera! That always works. Randomly copy whatever he says in an opera voice. If he says "Go out into the hallway" on your way out sing "I'm walking through the door!" Sing everything that you do and sing everything he says!

Anonymous

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on 6/30/2006 Here are some fun things to do:

1. Make loud farting noises when ever your professor bends down.

2. If you have two professors, ask one to do something and then quickly run to the other one and ask the same thing.

3. When someone sneezes, say "Bless the stupid gods." When your professor ask you why you said this, simply say "If the gods were smart they wouldn't make us sneeze."

WARNING: What I am now saying is only for the people who are idiots and will let themselves be turned into an annoying student.

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