When it comes to registering for classes, students have different criteria for taking a course. Some look for a good time, some care about the subject of the class; whether they find it interesting or not. I only look to see if the professor has a good reputation. In other words I don’t care what class it is, what time it is, what day it is. As long as the professor who is teaching that course is a good professor I will most likely take the class. I will literally make everything else work around that class. I’ll do anything that I have to do to take the class I need with the professor that I want. There was a time when I had to delay taking a class for a semester simply because I couldn’t take the class I wanted with my desired professor. I have also had to take classes very early in the morning, or very late at night just so that I take the class with my desired professor.

For my goal, a very well known website called Rate My Profess is very helpful. Though I don’t completely rely on the information on the website, since it’s been proven that many times students give a bad rating to a professors simply because they didn’t get the grade they wanted in the class. The other way is also true. Just because a bad professor gives a student an A, and that student feels obligated to rate the professor good, doesn’t make him good at all.

I have to say that there are some great and exceptional professors, and then there are a lot of average and okay professors. Then there are these professors that God knows where they came from. I mean, whatever you do to make things work, it doesn’t. You feel like you’ve reached a dead end in your education. These types of professors are the main reason for the courses that I had to either withdraw and re-take later or failed to get an A. If it wasn’t for them I probably would have been an A+ student.

Then again, once can argue that getting an A+ with a great professor is not the real challenge, getting an A+ with a professor who is horrible at teaching is the real challenge. At the end of the day, no matter what there are both great and terrible professors all around the world, and certainly Queens College is not an exception.

I personally think a good professor is worth waiting a semester for, or coming to school very early or very late for. I have done everything in my power to be a great student for a great professor, and avoid bad professors at all costs.