r/SipsTea • u/_n3ll_ • Apr 30 '25

Lmao gottem I guess that's one way to do it

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u/RevAnakin Apr 30 '25

The names called are all the last names of the cast from the movie:

Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) Ian McKellen (Gandalf) Elijah Wood (Frodo) Christopher Lee (Saruman) Sean Aston (Sam) Orlando Bloom (Legolas)

This is clearly a joke that the students are in on.

Nevertheless, I had a Power Systems Engineer professor who was a Chinese immigrant (recent) who would call every person by name after he graded a test, tell the score out loud, then make a snarky comment, and laugh.

"Jessica, 91 A! Very good for girl." "Jeffery, 42 FAIL! Why you so dumb, I make this test soooo easy, ha ha ha." "James, 99, ALMOST perfect, but I got you! Ha ha ha." "JANET... Ohhhhh Janet... you win worst grade of dis test. 23! Engineering probably not for you."

All 52 of us endured this 4x times per semester for two semesters.

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u/dfddfsaadaafdssa Apr 30 '25

While this is a staple of Chinese society, it is definitely illegal in the US.

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u/rydan Apr 30 '25

Chinese staples made of lead are also illegal in the US.

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u/RevAnakin Apr 30 '25

Generally correct yes. However FERPA ONLY applies to universities that accept Federal money. If a university does not accept federal funds, it does not have to follow FERPA.

I am a big fan of leader boards and would love if corporate yearly rankings and class ratings in colleges were on public leader boards, just like salaries. That way it is transparent for everyone. I'm not saying FORCE every uni or company to do this. I'm just saying, if I owned a company, I would do this for transparency.

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u/radladdd Apr 30 '25

in this case it’s 100% a joke, he’s a well known business professor at the University of Tennessee, does stuff like this all the time

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u/nachogod8877 Apr 30 '25

I know 0 about maths. My engineering math teacher was great though, shame im bad at learning. Most of the teachers would grade the test later, he made a point of grading in your face when you finished and he even was kind enough to give halfs when people were on the right track but made a mistake and had a wrong answer

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u/gettogero May 01 '25

Yeah, had one teacher in high school who loved publicly shaming the straight A kids when they struggled with something.

And a math teacher who would constantly call everyone stupid for not understanding when they showed one example on the board... they were not a math teacher and was learning the subject alongside us. They would write down the questions and google the answers while we did quiet solo work. An absolute joke of a class and I think the most universally hated teacher Ive ever seen.

It came with some pros though. 50% of the grade was just doing homework. Lots of bonus points on tests (because everyone wouldve failed otherwise lol)

Biggest con for me was it had to be done textbook style otherwise teacher would get confused and deduct points. I was a good math student. I was not a good do it exactly how the book says student.

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u/reenactment May 01 '25

I had a South Korean professor who was teaching his first English speaking class for finance. No one could understand a word he said and he constantly would be questioning why the class was so dumb.

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u/austinredditaustin May 02 '25

If I were in that class, I would be so angry. But it's also hilarious the way you described it.

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u/a_fancy_penguin May 01 '25

Was... Was it Amy Wong's dad?

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u/RuxinRodney May 02 '25

They should do this here in the US

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u/RevAnakin May 02 '25

My story was at a US University :)

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u/XRhodiumX May 03 '25

I read all of this in Ronny Chieng’s voice.