So, my professor is an absolute jerk. He's officially ruined my day and it's only 10:30.

So, this semester I was planning to take three trips, two of which would be university sanctioned and the other one is in a sort of gray area that I don't need to get into. Pretty much, all you need to know is, in total this would be been roughly four to five excused absences depending on classes and stuff like that. Now, most professors are fine if you miss and its excused, because its university sanctioned. But my philosophy professor? Nope. Everything's unexcused even if it's excused. So currently, I have three unexcused absences in his class, one because I was sick and two more because of the first trip I took this semester. His limit before he drops your grade a letter grade is five, and then following that its every two. I still have two more trips I was planning to go to, a trip to DC that was supposed to happen the weekend of March 10, and a trip for one of my POSC classes which is for a grade. In addition, I had another potential trip come up where I could go to the debate nationals. WELL GUESS WHAT. Because of this mother****er I can't go to DC or Nationals and I might have my grade dropped a letter grade because I cannot miss that POSC trip. I'll fail the class if I can't go. So I'm in tears while writing this because I have been looking forward to DC since last semester, and it was only when we got the agenda last night that I realized, I CAN'T GO BECAUSE OF THIS STUPID ****ING PROFESSOR. It's against university policy for him to do this too but because all the major grades in his class are papers I can't fight him on this for fear of him giving me an awful grade on those papers because he can. Great, just great. I've wanted to go to DC my whole life, finally got a chance to, and now this son of a ***** isn't going to let me go because he doesn't care.

And if you think I'm just being petty, I'm not. This guy literally brought a student to tears today because of a quiz grade. He assigns us these reading quizzes every week which have these awful vague questions and are just not good questions. Well he gives them to us online. So last night, the website we take these quizzes on crashed and most of the class could not connect. It was only because I stayed up past midnight that I was able to take the quiz. I was one of the few. So what happens to the rest of the students? Well instead of extending the deadline like a normal professor because it wasn't just one student's technical difficulties, he's just decided to give them all zeroes and then use the grace clause in his syllabus to drop that grade. Why is this bad? You might be asking. Here's why. That clause is meant to help students who just did bad on a quiz, not those who couldn't take the quiz. All those students have now just lost the ability to screw up another quiz if they haven't already, or be forgiven for screwing up a quiz. One girl was literally in tears from hearing this and left class, never to return, because she was so upset. She had made a 30 on a previous quiz and was now stuck with it because this idiot doesn't understand that when a website crashes a quiz's deadline should be extended.