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Two kinds of profs

You don’t understand this could easily be the same prof

Listen I am a grad student and this is the God’s own truth.

My prof was skyping into class once because he was in Turkey at the time and the other prof asked him “do you have the reading?” And he goes “no, but I"m in a country where piracy is legal.”

It often is the same prof, for a couple reasons! For one, there are often fairly stringent requirements for 100-level courses, especially with things like exams and required amounts of writing. Also, with 100-level courses, we want to catch you early and help u develop good habits.

But for advanced and grad level-courses, profs are p much left to their own devices—we’re teaching our specialties, and can p much do what we want.

Absolutely true. Teaching second and third year courses is a lot more laid back for that reason. The expectations have been set in first year, we’ve shown you what to do to succeed and we put it out there early on what needs to be done and how much help we’ll offer. The rest is up to the students. 

Upper level courses also tend to have students majoring in, or at least interested in, whatever is being taught. First years are a total crapshoot.