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Feel like I need to babysit my professors so I get my extra time accommodation
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Anonymous
This may have more to do with my online classes, but why does this happen every semester? Every single semester for the last 3 years, this has happened. It's hard to know what regular time is and what time and a half is because it not always announced what is regular time. Sometimes, the professor will write you need to have 90 minutes for the final or something like that as a group email. I am in my last week now and I see that I didn't get extra time programmed for two of my finals this week. The exams are proctored. I will probably send a short email saying you probably didn't realize but I don't see extra time programmed for my final. The professor I am most worried about takes weeks to return emails. She also insists we address her as "doctor blah blah blah". 
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Anonymous
| What school? |
Anonymous
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Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.
It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs. It’s not preschool, it’s college. Welcome to the real world. |
Anonymous
Students at lower ranked colleges often call professors "teachers." Many of these kids see college as an extension of high school. |
Anonymous
OP here. Not true. They were all informed at the beginning of the semester by the disability department. I also sent them another email in the first few weeks when it became clear I wasn't given extra time. Insisting on students calling you doctor screams insecure. She put it in her syllabus, spoke to us the first and second class about it and continued to remind people during lectures. My dad had a PhD. The only people who may refer to him as doctor as his coworkers or other work collogues he may be working on research with. I have heard students say professor during lectures but never Dr. |
Anonymous
They are focused on education, and aren’t pretentious and sophomoric as the fools who call themselves “elite”. |
Anonymous
Clearly OP is one of those. |
Anonymous
You said you need extra time. Don’t waste it arguing with foolish trolls. Your professors probably have similar executive functioning challenges but unlike you they didn’t take action to mitigate them. |
Anonymous
| lol at this person complaining her professor is insecure for letting people she'd like to be called doctor after earning that degree |
Anonymous
| If you have this much time and energy to disparage your professors and fight with them, perhaps you are not so “disabled” after all. |
Anonymous
OP here. Maybe 2 year colleges. I'm unsure of what degrees are needed to teach at a community college, but I don't think they need a PhD. She's very different from all of my other professors. Most of them are casual and say to call them by their first name. Some of my professor will sign emails as Dr. B but she's the first that came out and insisted over and over again to be called Dr. |
Anonymous
| Do you mind explaining why you need extra time? |
Anonymous
The professor lacks social skills. Professor and doctor mean the same thing. |
Anonymous
OP is a trip, but she has a right to her accommodations. |
Anonymous
Ueah, I'm at a lower tier college and have had a few students who address me by first name despite my signing "Prof. X" to everything. But, I am also parent to an accommodations kid, and OP has a legitimate concern. OP, the problem is likely over-enrollment and underpayment of your professors. Your college probably dumps too much on your professors. They may be adjuncts with no administrative pay, but with administrative demands like this. Hopefully, they will respond positively, but, if this (overwhelmed/underpaid prof) is the case, you will have to be pro-active in managing your accommodations. |