Pretty much everything gets a review these days. It’s not just restaurants and movies anymore, but things like hospitals, pretty much every single product on the market, and of course your performance at work. We all are under scrutiny like never before.
Naturally, professors are not exempt from this. Under pressure to deliver not only practical knowledge to be used to pass courses and kick-start careers but professor ratings also includes sections like ‘hotness’ and ability to deliver classes with charm, wit, and entertainment. Failure to do so risks a scathing anonymous review on the review site ‘Rate My Professors.'
Of course, there is plenty of mischief at play on the site, and most professors do not take such trivial and funny reviews seriously. Or do they? While few would admit to it, who wouldn’t have a peek at what others had to say about them? Its human nature, particularly for the naturally curious as most academics must surely be. Even I have a look below the line now and then to check out what you guys are saying about my appalling grammar!
This professor decided to turn the tables and deal with his criticisms in the best possible way, with humor and grace. With so many keyboard warriors out there lashing out anonymously because their excessive demands weren’t met, this guy has found the blueprint for dealing with the mean things people say about you online, and it has inspired others to tell their own review stories.
Scroll down below to check out what memories this professor review has brought up to other readers on reddit, and feel free to add your comments on the teacher ratings. And if you want to be mean then go ahead, I’m not going to read them!

"Instructor Needs Desperately to Reduce Caffeine Intake.
Goes off on Tangents, Talks Really Fast, Then Loses Me.
Should Not Be Allowed to Reproduce Let Alone Teach.
Given his eerily calm and cool nature, I often feared that he would pull out an AK-47 and mow down students who frustrated him. He definitely acts like I imagine a serial killer would. If nothing else, I'm motivated to do well just to keep from pissing him off."
#21
A kid in my bio 1 class left a review that said something like, "I didn't learn shit in this class the professor is awful". My professor then said there was only one person who made less than a 30 so far.
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20points
#22
My boyfriend is an instructor and someone commented about his nipples on rate my professor.
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17points
#23
I’m in a class with a professor like this right now. We have memos due and you have to title it to him like you would title it to your boss. He read the ones that “threw the most shade” “Dr. “Professor”, Wannabe professor, Earle Hall, University.” Everyone laughed because he is not a standard professor but he is definitely one of the favorites in the department.
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17points
#24
I had a couple of professors that were a little bitter about some of their reviews.
The professor I did research with had a couple of them that he made fun of:
He uses algebra for his problems (this was engineering analysis II so basically solving ODEs with advanced math like calculus and god forbid algebra)
He says the same jokes. (he did but he made fun of the guy in class by saying he should have passed the class the first time if he didn't want to hear his jokes more than once)
My fluids professor was proud that he had the pepper on ratemyprofessor. But he was also bitter about some of the not so good reviews.
Mind you these were probably the two best professors we had in the whole program. Anyone saying anything bad about them was a lazy f*ck who didn't want to put in minimal work.
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17points
#25
My professor got reviewed by the cis dept and he said he wanted to shoot the guy that reviewed him. He threatened my grade because he said he saw what I, honestly, rated him.
I will never do those stupid evaluations anymore.
I will never do those stupid evaluations anymore.
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15points
#26
Seventeen years as a professor, and all I ever got was "You s*ck at teaching, please retire."
I can't believe it took me 17 years to realize it was time to retire.
Note: no one ever said that to me on a review. Reviews are mixed, half good, half bad. I retired for health reasons, and wish I didn't have to retire. Best job I ever had.
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14points
#27
I had a professor do this by inserting slides into a slideshow about Shakespeare right as we reached the Kenneth Branagh portion. I was like HELL YEAH KBRAN and all of a sudden it was a slide full of shitty, totally valid comments. He would try to goad us into fighting and debating constantly (it was a summer morning humanities class and no one cared or had the energy) and he would play devil’s advocate for things that didn’t merit it.
Anyway, he read the comments in a shaking voice, told us that when he looked at us, all he saw were “a bunch of F*CKING cowards”, and began to cry. No one knew what to do. So we had to endure it and then he just sent us home.
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14points
#28
I had a professor read his once. 60 of the 100 students in the class failed our “block exam” with other classes because our professor had literally skipped class half the semester.
One comment was: “You s*ck and I hope you die.”
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12points
#29
remember I had a disagreement with my old netsec professor... my very first semester in college, and it soured our relationship my entire time in the CS program.
The professor always had the class write 2 reviews, one "unofficial" at the beginning of the semester, and one "official", towards the end. I usually always wrote something along the lines of, " I'm only taking you, because you're the only instructor that teaches my subject of interest." For the first unofficial review. The semester would go on some , and remember how much I despised this professor around midterm time, and how much this professor tode my ass all class, every class.
For my final, official review, I would always write, "If I could find another professor that teaches near me, and doesn't talk themselves up for 80% of the class...I would tell other students, we'd all drop you for this other instructor, and you'd be without a job"
Looking back... I really didn't like that professor. However, because this professor always rode my ass I really know my stuff.
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11points

