Anonymous wrote:Is this seriously a period discussion??? If you have a medical problem at the beginning of the semester give your professor the medical note (or what is needed per school) policy. If you have to miss class or a test last minute they will know.

I do not have period problems but have used that excuse once or twice to skip class or a test. I also used migraines as an excuse.

That's really crappy you ruin it for the rest of us who actually have these issues.

No, I'd never talk to a male professor about my personal medical issues nor would I bring an excuse note. For an exam I'd probably suck it up, but for a class, I'd miss it once a month. No one ever gave me a hard time about it thankfully (but it was easy to track with the absences). I've been hospitalized for migrants and I still wouldn't tell anyone as most people have no idea how horrific they are in less they have them.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have favorites? I knew most of mine liked me as a student but I was also always on time, participated and made great grades.

What's the best excuse you have ever heard?


Do you pass althletes?

I don't have favorites, but I do have students that I dislike. I don't judge students based on their aptitude. I do judge (and frequently get annoyed) with students who:
-Don't turn work in/don't try but then can't understand why they do poorly in my classes
-Cheat, lie, have rude manners

I'd much rather an honest C students than a lying/cheating A/B student.

Athletes are often my best students.

Best excuse? Girl tells me she has a heavy period and can't take the exam. GTFO. Take an Advil hunny.

Yeah - don't be so quick to judge health excuses. My mother had *heavy* periods, and couldn't do anything those days. Whens he was that age, she didn't know there was anything you could do about it. I know some kids will try everything, but there really are wacky health things out there.

+1, my cramps are so bad I don't leave the house for a day or two. I tried everything and at best it just takes the edge off things. Its horrible. Glad you were not my professor.

So your entire adult life you've stayed home from work once a month? I find that hard to believe. If it's that bad you go on the pill or get a doctor's note, double up on tampons/pads, etc. . We all know girls/women who will use this as an excuse because they think nobody will question it.

This. I have endometriosis and I have never missed class for it.

+1. Period is an excuse because you cna get away with it here. Nowhere else is it accepted. You think poor women can miss work because they have pain? Any kind of pain, that is not a bone sticking out? No, and they don't, because it might cost them their jobs. This is a privileged excuse.

You must have a penis.

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Best excuse? Girl tells me she has a heavy period and can't take the exam. GTFO. Take an Advil hunny.

I also work in a college and there was a young lady who had such debilitating periods that she registered with disability services. Truly, some of us are unlucky enough to really suffer with our montly cycles. Just so you know.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have favorites? I knew most of mine liked me as a student but I was also always on time, participated and made great grades.

What's the best excuse you have ever heard?


Do you pass althletes?

I don't have favorites, but I do have students that I dislike. I don't judge students based on their aptitude. I do judge (and frequently get annoyed) with students who:
-Don't turn work in/don't try but then can't understand why they do poorly in my classes
-Cheat, lie, have rude manners

I'd much rather an honest C students than a lying/cheating A/B student.

Athletes are often my best students.

Best excuse? Girl tells me she has a heavy period and can't take the exam. GTFO. Take an Advil hunny.

Yeah - don't be so quick to judge health excuses. My mother had *heavy* periods, and couldn't do anything those days. Whens he was that age, she didn't know there was anything you could do about it. I know some kids will try everything, but there really are wacky health things out there.

+1, my cramps are so bad I don't leave the house for a day or two. I tried everything and at best it just takes the edge off things. Its horrible. Glad you were not my professor.

So your entire adult life you've stayed home from work once a month? I find that hard to believe. If it's that bad you go on the pill or get a doctor's note, double up on tampons/pads, etc. . We all know girls/women who will use this as an excuse because they think nobody will question it.

This. I have endometriosis and I have never missed class for it.

As a fellow endometriosis sufferer, you should know that pain level varies tremendously in this disease, and may not even correspond to the inflammation. It's more likely due to which locations are inflammed and which are spared.

I'm a research scientist, and would try not to judge. I've seen so much terrifying health things. And these kids are at the age where they know nothing. I would always give them the benefit of the doubt.

Professors and universities are actually subject to some legal parameters, though most professors are unaware of this and believe something like allowing or not allowing an exam retake is totally up to their discretion.

Title IX, for example, guarantees a pregnant student whose pregnancy impacts an exam or other hard deadlines the right to retake that exam or receive other accommodations. Most professors believe it's up to them whether or not to grant extensions or exceptions to stated policy in that case. In the case of the student with menstrual pain, she might also be covered by Title IX.

More important is the concept of "arbitrary and capricious" grading. The courts have ruled multiple times that professors must grade according the standards of their university and field, and that stated policies must be followed as stated and applied evenly to everyone in the class. This means that if Student A, who has been a stellar student all semester, misses the final due to the flu and is granted a retake, Student B must be granted the same opportunity even if she has been a crummy student and complains of menstrual pain. Policy waivers can only be granted in extraordinary circumstances, or all students in the class can claim that their grades are arbitrary.

The idea is to prevent both favoritism and retaliation.

This also means that a professor can't "forgive" an assignment for one student and not for everyone else, or assess late penalties for some students and not others (excluding those that follow extension policies).

Other case law has held that the Syllabus is, in fact, a contract, and the professor is bound by the policies and content of that syllabus.

Much as they are discouraged from going to the police to report assault and theft, students are discouraged from complaining about unfair, mean, or vindictive professors. The law is on their side, however.

Here is a link to the AAUP's discussion of grading law: https://www.aaup.org/issues/grading/who-grades-students

What do you do op with your summers? Earn extra income, or is 70k enough?

Anonymous wrote:I'm a STEM prof who actually needs to raise research grants and do research with students to keep my job. Summer is filled with travel.

We STEM profs hate that you social science profs give this job a bad name by doing as little as possible and taking summers off. What do you think of us?

We are jealous that you have the opportunity to pull in the kind of money that allows for things like labs, grad students who actually work for you, equipment, and potentially patents that will earn you real cash or a Nobel Prize or something.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a STEM prof who actually needs to raise research grants and do research with students to keep my job. Summer is filled with travel.

We STEM profs hate that you social science profs give this job a bad name by doing as little as possible and taking summers off. What do you think of us?

I love STEM profs! You help subsidize us. It's great. And I do work in the summer on my research. It's just entirely up to me when, how much, and where I do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you have favorites? I knew most of mine liked me as a student but I was also always on time, participated and made great grades.

What's the best excuse you have ever heard?


Do you pass althletes?

I don't have favorites, but I do have students that I dislike. I don't judge students based on their aptitude. I do judge (and frequently get annoyed) with students who:
-Don't turn work in/don't try but then can't understand why they do poorly in my classes
-Cheat, lie, have rude manners

I'd much rather an honest C students than a lying/cheating A/B student.

Athletes are often my best students.

Best excuse? Girl tells me she has a heavy period and can't take the exam. GTFO. Take an Advil hunny.

Yeah - don't be so quick to judge health excuses. My mother had *heavy* periods, and couldn't do anything those days. Whens he was that age, she didn't know there was anything you could do about it. I know some kids will try everything, but there really are wacky health things out there.

+1, my cramps are so bad I don't leave the house for a day or two. I tried everything and at best it just takes the edge off things. Its horrible. Glad you were not my professor.

So your entire adult life you've stayed home from work once a month? I find that hard to believe. If it's that bad you go on the pill or get a doctor's note, double up on tampons/pads, etc. . We all know girls/women who will use this as an excuse because they think nobody will question it.

This. I have endometriosis and I have never missed class for it.

+1. Period is an excuse because you cna get away with it here. Nowhere else is it accepted. You think poor women can miss work because they have pain? Any kind of pain, that is not a bone sticking out? No, and they don't, because it might cost them their jobs. This is a privileged excuse.

You must have a penis.

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Anonymous wrote:How did you find your job? Did you have an in? Did you apply a bunch of different places? What's the hiring process like?

I cast a wide net. The hiring market is brutal in academia (for tenure track gigs). Even for a place ranked 75th - 125th in USNEWS, you get 150-175 applications for the coveted tenure track gig. You have little control over geography, although I lucked out on that one (won't say anymore). I applied to 30 jobs. I got 2 offers. I had 8 interviews. I had no connections whatsoever to my current gig.

I have a relative getting a phd and he plans to only apply to schools in 2 smaller cities. I've only heard accounts like yours--I hope it works out for him.

I'm a STEM prof who actually needs to raise research grants and do research with students to keep my job. Summer is filled with travel.

We STEM profs hate that you social science profs give this job a bad name by doing as little as possible and taking summers off. What do you think of us?

Anonymous wrote:How did you find your job? Did you have an in? Did you apply a bunch of different places? What's the hiring process like?

I cast a wide net. The hiring market is brutal in academia (for tenure track gigs). Even for a place ranked 75th - 125th in USNEWS, you get 150-175 applications for the coveted tenure track gig. You have little control over geography, although I lucked out on that one (won't say anymore). I applied to 30 jobs. I got 2 offers. I had 8 interviews. I had no connections whatsoever to my current gig.

How did you find your job? Did you have an in? Did you apply a bunch of different places? What's the hiring process like?

Anonymous wrote:Has a student offered you sex for grades?

No. All flirting and "offers" came after grades were in or student graduated.

Has a student offered you sex for grades?