#Rate My Professors

[animentality]

[starcurtain]

One thing I wish I'd see more of among Ratio fans is some thought about how he views himself as a teacher.

Like yes, of course he refuses to compromise on the quality and rigor of the education he imparts, and he would find it unforgivably unethical to lower his standards in order to pass more students who had not genuinely learned the material. This is core to his character.

However, as someone who is a teacher IRL, I know the absolutely miserable feeling setting that kind of standard can cause. There's the obvious disheartening sense of disappointment ("Are students these days really not capable of doing the work correctly? Is our future in danger, if this is the highest level of understanding our current generation of students can achieve?"), but even worse than that is the self-doubt.

"Is this somehow my fault? Am I not teaching this material in the right ways for the students to learn? Is there something I could have done differently to get through to these students? Would a better teacher have a higher passing rate?"

We know that Ratio does (or at least did) struggle with feeling inferior to the Genius Society, so I think it is also likely, as much as he absolutely will not budge on his academic standards, that he has doubts about his teaching ability as well.

This is the man who wants to educate the entire world to cure the disease of ignorance, and yet only 3% of his actual students are able to get there. How can someone who gets so few of his direct students to a state of enlightenment hope to enlighten the whole universe? If so few students are successfully learning the material of a given class, doesn't that mean the teacher is doing something wrong?Would a better teacher--would a genius, maybe--not be able to impart their knowledge more efficiently and educate even the most challenging of students?

As someone constantly struggling with that balance between keeping academic standards high while also meeting the needs of today's students, I think the passing rates of his courses must affect Dr. Ratio much more deeply than I've seen fans discuss. I think he would question himself harshly over his class success rates, and I think he must be constantly trying to push himself to become the best teacher he possibly can be.

tl;dr: I hope one day the HSR fandom will stop sleeping on the fact that Ratio is an actual practicing professor who probably has astronomical levels of teacher angst. 😂

[inkadink17]

*Ahem*

So uh….

[white-weasel]

Saw College AU but it’s just the Fatal Five working on a group project for Professor Kramer’s introductory level philosophy course

[redbootsindoriath]

Apparently in my absence this post had its 1000-notes-iversary.

This time we get to see the culprit responsible for ruining our heroes' lives as well.

I've really missed you guys, by the way. I know I've said that already, but I'm serious. Once or twice this year I've been right on the brink of coming back but schedule stuff always keeps me from letting myself commit to that again, and that in turn has kept me from posting anything at all. But I've been in an unexpected drawing mood lately and so if I can get enough stuff to set up a queue we might pretend I'm back for a month or so sometime this year. Maybe. Hopefully. We'll see. No promises though. That's why I'm hiding this paragraph under the cut.

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[Beren:] "Uhhh...barkeep...I think he's had enough now..." [Tolkien:] "No, I don't think he has...!"

[a-list-of-dumbass-quotes]

"Number C....C is not a number..."

-my marine ecology professor

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

Was recently informed that Amethio's actually 16 or so in comparison to Friede and that just made their dynamic Way Funnier™️ in hindsight

[puddle-wants-to-live]

LAYTON IS TRENDING ON TUMBLR RN OMG OMG IS THIS THE START OF THE LAYTON RENAISSANCE?!?!?

[sailforvalinor]

Idk if this is controversial, but studying for a English/writing degree at university shouldn’t make you NOT want to engage with writing or literature. Just a thought.

[milkshaketae]

me and my friend have a tgaa college au where we giggle over dilfs in button ups it’s very fun

[benwillbonds]

i’m taking a film class semester 1 and oh i’m dreading it already bc i don’t gaf about any films except my letterboxd top 4 and. for the last week of the class the professor emailed the class and asked for film suggestions for us to vote on and study and seeing the things people are suggesting…….they are Film People and i am going to be Miserable

[ramblingoak]

📖 - hit me with your brain rot, please!

I suppose I can talk more about sexy professor Copia. It’s not an au, Copia is a guest professor over the summer at the university you teach at. He’s doing a course on the seven deadly sins. Due to a miscommunication as to your summer teaching plans you end up having to share your office with him and you are not thrilled about it.

You have nothing against his church or his religion. You just don’t understand why everyone is so in love with him. He’s kind of dorky and tells horrible jokes. He’s also so nice to everyone, even Professor Franklin who tells Copia he’s going to burn in hell at least once a day.

He wears these insanely tight suits and carries around this beat up leather messenger bag and he ALWAYS brings you a coffee despite how unwelcome you know you’ve made him feel. But it’s your office and you didn’t make the best first impression (the concussion didn’t help) and why the hell does he have a higher score on Rate My Professor than you?!

Anyway…yeah. That’s mostly the gist of it 😅

[askthebutch]

i’m kinda worried that i’m a terrible kisser. i made out with my butch partner for the first time and it felt good but also i had no idea what i was doing or supposed to be doing with my mouth. what do i do with my mouth????

I've never tried to teach someone just by description, so I'm just going to go chronologically and perhaps a bit clinically.

First. Relax. Breathe. Don't rush.

Lean in slow. With your mouth relaxed, lightly graze your bottom lip against their top lip. That's teasing and you can do it anytime you come up for air.

Relax your lips. Gently press your lips against theirs, interlocking so that someone's bottom lip is always between the other's lips.

Thats a kiss.

Take it slow and build your confidence. Tease them. Kiss them on their jaw and neckline. Then kiss their lips more.

If you want to kick it up a gear, gently gently gently suck their bottom lip into your mouth and run your tongue across it or just barely let your teeth touch it as you let it go.

Tongue has its place but don't overdo it. Just barely let it slip into their mouth and kind of knock into their teeth. Then retreat. Kiss more.

Rinse and repeat babyyy

That's entry level kissing. I've been your instructor, Butch Dyke.

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

*goes back to Rate My Professors every now and then to read fresh reviews about the professor I didn’t like so I can feel validated by other students with similar complaints*

[ao3screenshotss]

[mysicksecrets]

my chem professor (who i despise with every cell of my body) put in our exam grades and the class adverage was a failing, and i ended up getting a 91%? so not bad.

BUT THEN THID FUCKING BITHGXAGDGDGS sent aNOTHER email saying that she typed in the scores wrong and so basically all of our grades went down significantly more (i got a 87 technically ….. :(). BUT ITS LIKE. DUDE. SHE fucked it up originally and now she’s going to decrease l the grades even more?? the failing adverage??!? like isn’t that so messed??

idk i guess she had to do it or whatever but like could u imagine seeing ur failing grade and then coming back hours later to seeing it get even lower. horrible. I HATE HER