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What is the most insulting comment a professor has ever written on your work?

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flamingtangerine:
I once heard a story about a professor at oxford who wrote "Your work is both interesting and original, however the parts that are original aren't interesting and the parts that are interesting aren't original."

As for me i think the worst comment i've received is that i was glib when analysing a picture of an obese child eating McDonalds. To be fair i did describe the child as a "bloated monster with a look of cherubic ecstasy smeared across his face like so much special sauce" or something like that.

Juvy:
"You understand all the concepts and participate fantastically in class, but i'd wish you'd hand in your work on time so I wouldn't have to fail you."

lol I think C+ was considered to be an amazing mark in that class, I did not learrn anything except how to use french curves and t-square like my life depended on it. Stupid design class.

evernew:
"you should become a fiction writer because most of this is fiction."
- on my history exam

to be fair, i had compared greek heroes to the terminator and other movie characters

Lila:
"I think you might want to switch to another language - Latin is obviously not your forte"

I had gotten a 62 on my Latin final and my teacher was sick. But she had been sick for a week and a half before the final, so I couldn't talk to her about my questions, so I did really badly. I'm still in the process of fixing the grade even though it was last june.

KvP:

--- Quote from: tania on 11 Nov 2008, 16:37 ---maybe i am being overly cynical and generalizing here but i really think it was more because these were silly people who don't read books and never had any incentive to learn proper english cos of microsoft word and spellcheck and all that. it's a little implausible that almost an entire class of white, middle class, privileged kids failed a very simple grammar quiz because every single one of them had a learning disability.

--- End quote ---
This. Holy balls, Word has made it easy to slack off. I've always been a florid writer (my style of composition formed around 8th grade and hasn't really changed) so I took care with these things, but other people I know just didn't care. My best friend from high school is a pretty smart guy, so it came as a massive shock to me when he had me proofread an essay of his in college and it was maybe 4th grade level, spelling and grammar wise. When I confronted him with it his excuse was "I've got spellcheck!", despite the fact that the program only picked up about half of his grammar errors, some words were incorrectly changed, and overall the essays were just constructed out of shit. And where's spellcheck when you're faced with an actual written assignment?\\

I about punched him in his Czech face.

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