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Prosper or Perish

Are you aware that Lincoln Land community college has 124 full-time teaching faculty and 226 part-time instructors? Having so many choices makes for a difficult decision on the students’ part when choosing the right professor. It’s hard to pick a professor with whom you’ve never met, or at best know very little about. However, there is a solution to all of the confusion! The wonderful web designers at www.RateMyProfessor.com provided student with a place to go and share their experience, leave feedback, and give insight. Rate My professor utilizes a simple and easy to understand five point grading scale, and provides a place to leave in depth detailed advice from former students to the new students considering the professor. It is important when choosing a professor to choose someone who meets your
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While there are resources available each teacher goes about things different way. How do you score an A with one professor if you have to go somewhere else to guess at what they want? So much is thrown at us, and ideally our professor should be more than willing to provide that extra support. Ideally they should lift and inspire students. However, unfortunately it’s not always the case.

This was a former student of Lincoln Land advice against a former professor she had, “Worst “teacher”; ever...he will tell you day one you will not get higher than a C, and day one you should turn around and get another teacher! I religiously studied for everything, nerd style.. And failed his first test. He 's smug and has a terrible grading system...take another teacher!”

Its mind blowing to tell student’s the best they will get is a C. Clearly this teacher lacks in helping, or he’d be confident his students would perform better than barely passing. However, without the helpful advice provided how would students know? Simply put, they wouldn’t without Rate My

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