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So, it's officially been two months of D-school It's had it's rough spots and it's good spots, but there seems to be one are where I've straight-up hit a wall: with a professor
Just some backdrop, I'm always polite to the profs, active in class, take excellent notes, model student (or, I'd like to think so) etc.. to the point where I've been made the official note taker for a couple of my lectures.
For one of my classes, twice now, I've been shot down by the prof for asking a question. Now, normally, I would understand it if it was straight up lecturing, constrained time period, etc. However, it was an active question-asking period, and I asked for clarification, and the prof literally screamed at me and said "go ask your friends after class" and a couple of other things that I've literally lost memory of. It doesn't sound that bad on paper, but let me tell you, when everyone else is getting their questions answered, it's a crappy feeling when the professor doesn't extend the same help to you. And s/he HATES the textbook, and said it's essentially useless because s/he disagrees with it most of the time.
This is the second time that s/he's done such a thing, and normally I wouldn't think much of it, except at this point, it's literally hindering my learning, as I really need the professor, the one who writes the exams, to explain something to me the way THEY want it explained- my friends are not dental professionals, and they know just as much as I do! The previous time it wasn't as bad, but today it got to the point where I was reduced to tears- nobody has ever been so rude and unprofessional to me in front of so many people before. And, I'm well over it now, but it was bad to the point where other classmates came up to me after lecture and said that they didn't think I deserved the response I got. It's embarrassing.
The advice part--
Do I address this with the professor? I mean, I have no idea what to do! I was planning on going to office hours and asking if I had done something wrong, and then stating how I felt, but I'm not sure if that's the wisest course of action. I am very lost in this class, and actually scared to approach the professor.
Something that might make sense is that this prof (they've been at my school for quite some time) almost got one of my relatives who was their student 20 years ago kicked out of D-school, although I'm not sure the details about that one...and yes, this prof knows we're related.
I just feel like I haven't done anything wrong, and I want to address this before suffering any more in the subject. Any advice would be reallllyyyy appreciated.
Just some backdrop, I'm always polite to the profs, active in class, take excellent notes, model student (or, I'd like to think so) etc.. to the point where I've been made the official note taker for a couple of my lectures.
For one of my classes, twice now, I've been shot down by the prof for asking a question. Now, normally, I would understand it if it was straight up lecturing, constrained time period, etc. However, it was an active question-asking period, and I asked for clarification, and the prof literally screamed at me and said "go ask your friends after class" and a couple of other things that I've literally lost memory of. It doesn't sound that bad on paper, but let me tell you, when everyone else is getting their questions answered, it's a crappy feeling when the professor doesn't extend the same help to you. And s/he HATES the textbook, and said it's essentially useless because s/he disagrees with it most of the time.
This is the second time that s/he's done such a thing, and normally I wouldn't think much of it, except at this point, it's literally hindering my learning, as I really need the professor, the one who writes the exams, to explain something to me the way THEY want it explained- my friends are not dental professionals, and they know just as much as I do! The previous time it wasn't as bad, but today it got to the point where I was reduced to tears- nobody has ever been so rude and unprofessional to me in front of so many people before. And, I'm well over it now, but it was bad to the point where other classmates came up to me after lecture and said that they didn't think I deserved the response I got. It's embarrassing.
The advice part--
Do I address this with the professor? I mean, I have no idea what to do! I was planning on going to office hours and asking if I had done something wrong, and then stating how I felt, but I'm not sure if that's the wisest course of action. I am very lost in this class, and actually scared to approach the professor.
Something that might make sense is that this prof (they've been at my school for quite some time) almost got one of my relatives who was their student 20 years ago kicked out of D-school, although I'm not sure the details about that one...and yes, this prof knows we're related.
I just feel like I haven't done anything wrong, and I want to address this before suffering any more in the subject. Any advice would be reallllyyyy appreciated.