Comment by subjectsigma

This was true when I was in college (+10 years ago). I remember being in a programming language theory class where the students and the professor had a falling out. He remains one of my favorite professors to this day because he was a very new professor and you could tell the spark hadn't left him yet. He was so full of energy and excitement talking about the subject of programming languages and you could really feel yourself absorbing it through mitosis, or at least I could.

Anyways halfway through the course the professor gave us a survey on "how the course was going" (bless him) and he got absolutely reamed. One person complained that they had to learn OCaml, that OCaml was too hard, that the professor didn't do enough to teach them OCaml, and that he would rather the course be taught in Java. The professor, legitimate confusion on his face, said that he had published the course syllabus with multiple resources for learning OCaml and that he had held office hours specifically for people to ask him questions or bring up problems, why hadn't the student come then? Response: "I am too busy, I don't have time to go to office hours." Another girl piped in saying it was "difficult to remember to check the course syllabus every week" and therefore she had "forgotten" to do the reading and therefore she didn't know any OCaml.

I was actually furious. I emailed him after the class and said that all these people were fucking dribbling morons and that he was doing fine and I liked the course and learned a lot. Looking back I'm sure the strong language probably made him feel more awkward than vindicated, but eh.