next »

[biged]

I just received the evaluations from a travel study class that I teach and one comment in particular caught my eye: “I have learned something from each individual that went on this trip Professors included.”    I am sure many of you can top this though.

[mountainguy]

Learned from a professor?? The horror!

This one was not intentionally funny, but I once received a scathing eval by a student that ended with "the rest of the class feels the same way." The only problem with that statement was that 23 of the 25 evals in the set were positive across the board and contained glowing remarks about how helpful and encouraging I was. It was in fact the best set of evals I've ever received. I would have been genuinely curious to know if the disgruntled student knew s/he was just making things up, or if they truly believed that the rest of their peers hated me as much as they did.

[mended_drum]

One of my favorites, from ten years or so ago:  "I'm really afraid that Dr. mended_drum may be responsible for the loss of my eternal soul.  It is important to consider eternity and damnation of people and students when hiring professors!"

[amlithist]

Whenever I teach Comp II (argumentation and documentation), I invariably get several variations of one or both of these:

"I used to be able to just ignore the footnotes or those things in the text [in-text citations], but now I have to stop and look at them!"

"I can't even listen to songs or look at advertisements anymore without thinking about what they mean!"

(I use rock and rap lyrics and print ads to teach warrants, so I take this as a high compliment, and the rest of the evals with these comments are uniformly strong.  They make me laugh, though--God forbid you actually come out of my class--GASP!!--thinking!)

[onthefringe]

My favorites from my last batch included a student asking plaintively "What is wrong with everyone passing with a B? No one needs to get a C in classes." and another student whose only comment was "COMIC SANS!!!!!!!" (a font I have never used in my life!)

[thrillcheese]

As a composition TA, I once got "Thrillcheese is a demon b*tch queen, but in a good way." But my favorite, from a really poor speller, was "Thrillcheese is very thoreau"

[onthefringe]

As a composition TA, I once got "Thrillcheese is a demon b*tch queen, but in a good way." But my favorite, from a really poor speller, was "Thrillcheese is very thoreau"

So in aggregate we have learned that Thoreau is a demon b*tch queen?

[heybeerman]

In the unintentionally funny column:

"I don't think we should have to read all these books and write papers on them.  We have a lot of other things going on."

[odessa]

As a composition TA, I once got "Thrillcheese is a demon b*tch queen, but in a good way." But my favorite, from a really poor speller, was "Thrillcheese is very thoreau"

Thrillcheese, I love both of these!  Did the "Demon b*tch queen" comment get you any ... umm ... feedback from your superiors?

I once had a class where several students referred to me as "the bomb" in one form or another.  The department chair called me in and asked what was going on that I was "bombing" in a class to this degree.  We had a little conversation about slang.  That  was funny.

[nocurving]

This one was not intentionally funny, but I once received a scathing eval by a student that ended with "the rest of the class feels the same way." The only problem with that statement was that 23 of the 25 evals in the set were positive across the board and contained glowing remarks about how helpful and encouraging I was. It was in fact the best set of evals I've ever received. I would have been genuinely curious to know if the disgruntled student knew s/he was just making things up, or if they truly believed that the rest of their peers hated me as much as they did.

You're forgetting the other student.  There are 2 out of 25 that are unhappy, and obviously, they've found each other.  I refer to these as the "fish story". 

[thrillcheese]

As a composition TA, I once got "Thrillcheese is a demon b*tch queen, but in a good way." But my favorite, from a really poor speller, was "Thrillcheese is very thoreau"

Thrillcheese, I love both of these!  Did the "Demon b*tch queen" comment get you any ... umm ... feedback from your superiors?

Yes, I did have to explain that to the TA advisor.

[hiddendragon]

Why are you reading these already?  Won't they just ruin your summer?  Put them away and read them when you need to.

[rebelgirl]

This cracked me up, from a student who had had me for 5 classes: 

"Prof Rebel is an amazing teacher; however, I feel certain that in the face of an imminent zombie invasion, no pedagogical methods ever measured would save one single @ss." 

{sorry, I think I posted that once upon a time on another thread}

[dr_mk]

My favorite: "This class has made me a much dorkier human being."

[bluezebracat]

"Prof BZC wears a lot of boots."

Hmm, maybe that's the oddest evaluation ever, not the funniest.

I do remember the whinest: "I really resented learning about X in this class.  I didn't understand why the class didn't cover Y."  (X is in the title of the course.  Y was not.)