Okay, there are almost always multiple choices for professors when it comes to college classes. For freshman and sophomore levels classes it is essentially guaranteed. Every student knows how important a teacher is and how they can absolutely screw you and your future over.

There is a very underrated tool that people use but don’t realize the power of, that is Rate My Professor. It is an online website where people who have taken a professor will do exactly what the name says, they rate them from 1-5. So if a teacher gets unanimous 1’s you know that they are academic demons, and fives mean they are all sunshine and rainbows. Unfortunately, most professors are in the 2.5-4 range. 

The whole premise of this website is to help you get a better grade and solely this. So, I don’t care if a teacher is boring, has an accent, breathes weirdly, wears strange clothes, or how nice they are.

All I care about is getting an A at the end of the day. Many people will write about how the teacher responds fast to emails (granted this is nice), but I just care if they give extra credit, curve grades, grade easily, and what the tests are like. I will literally do control F and find what people get at the end of the course. 

Oftentimes, people will absolutely destroy the professor’s reputation and still get an A. This is the shifting of emotion and what matters most here. You don’t want an unlikable professor, but if it is between a nice professor who grades hard and a weirdo grades on completion, I’ll take the weirdo everyday.

The grade is what matters.

Filtering through Rage and Infatuation

I truly don’t understand many of the reviews on Rate My Professor. Tons of people will express their failures onto the teachers, which will make you think your professor is the devil himself. Then there are others who say they never knew true love until Mr. Smith taught them antiderivatives over Zoom. So our job here is to filter through this crap.

The grade filter is the first technique. The next is to go to class on the left hand (shown below). Then who has to be on the hunt for complete homie who actually is real and tells you how the assignments, quizzes, tests, class, etc are.