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Office-Hour Habits of the North American Professor
An anonymous reader writes "For those of you who wonder just exactly what it is that your advisor is up to when you try to find him and meet with him, The Chronicle of Higher Education has a study on the
Office-Hour Habits of the North American Professor."
I personally like the professors who pile on about 25 hours of work per week, including all those mundane multiple page homeworks and lab write-ups that you know they (or the TAs who can't speak quarter-way decent english) never really read. You know that if you go to the professor to talk about it, nothing will get done and you would have simply wasted another precious hour (or two) of sleep and/or other work.
Perhaps it is because that professor too is tired of dealing with non-english speaking TAs/grad students, or perhaps it is because he actually has to teach students rather than simply letting the herd bask in his infinitely superior knowledge -- a classic case of transference where all the anger, hatred, and frustration is directed to the poor unfortunate souls who inadvertently signed up for his section.
Of course, in retaliation, sites like http://www.engrish.com are written instead of doing those thousands of projects, leaving the ingenious creators with a mere C for the semester. :-)