How to Pick an Easy Professor

If you’re the average college student, chances are you’ve spent a lot of time flipping through the course catalog looking for a blow off class.  Maybe you’re a little worn out from those four literature classes you took last semester, and are now looking for something with a little less reading.  Or, maybe you’re just lazy, but promised mom and dad you’d get a degree, so you’re filling your transcript with History of TV, and Kinesiology credits.  Either way, there’s not a college student alive who doesn’t enjoy an easy A.  The only thing is, instead of spending all your time looking for easy classes, you should be spending all that time and energy into looking for easy professors!







Why professors and not classes?  Simply put, just because a class sounds easy in its course description, doesn’t mean it is.  It all depends on how the class is taught.  Take these two classes for example:







3306: Shakespeare: The Major Works







Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. One-semester concentration on the major plays, such as The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV,King Lear, and The Tempest.




3324: Photojournalism I
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Techniques of taking and developing pictures for the mass media.




Unless you’re just weird (or an English major) you’re probably thinking that running around and taking pictures of stuff will be a hell of a lot easier than reading Shakespeare, right?  Eh, wrong. I took both these classes.




The lady who taught Photojournalism I expected me to cover twenty major news events for a portfolio.  Oh, and she wouldn’t take stupid little things like a pet store grand opening, or a kid in my neighborhood who started his own lemonade stand empire.  She wanted me to spend all my free time wandering around the city taking pictures of politicians and car accidents, and crap like that.  It was horrible.  I got a C (and I was lucky to get that).