Its Physics I, the concepts aren't hard but we have a really shitty teacher. He does a "So how many of you know about X math thing that isn't suppose to be taught in this course?" and then two hands go up, "Well look at that, so anyways heres X math thing that nobody gives two fucks about or understands, just for you know future reference." Basically, if he got his head out of his ass and would teach us instead of just bullshitting it then the course wouldn't be that bad.
Yeah, ours is pretty bad as well. Aside from having a thick accent, he didn't use any of the technology available. He didn't to much more than talk with his thick accent and write on the chalkboard. I normally don't have a problem with that, but when the lecture has 300 people in it, it's difficult to make writing on a chalkboard readable from every angle. The department owns a couple of tablet PC's that would be readily available and the lecture room is fitted with three projectors/screens. There's also a digital camera to use in place of the overhead projector that he's very fond of as well as a plethora of preprepared demonstrations that he could use but doesn't.
I was told that he came out of retirement to teach. I guess he's something like 70 years old, so he's a bit spacey sometimes. He's normally a pretty nice and interesting guy, but I'd much prefer my physics professor from last year, who took advantage of nearly all of the technology available and normally had really interesting lectures. Plus, he had his PhD from MIT!
I actually like it when teachers go off on those sorts of tangents, as long as they don't last long enough to disrupt the flow of the course. My Calc professor does that a lot, but they're normally very interesting (though rarely useful for the course) and I really like it. Most of my peers complain about it (and I did too for a while until I realized he was covering everything he was supposed to), but oh well...
