Light Reading: Trace Evals

My go-to prose in the past week or so has been scrolling through the very wonderful and intuitive database that holds aaaaaall of the Trace evals (since apparently none of the professors I want are on Rate My Professor)! I think they make it intentionally frustrating to protect the shitty professors. At the end of each semester, I find myself too tired to really articulate how horrible a professor is (but always leave good comments for my favorites). And so I appreciate the art and effort behind a scathing TRACE eval. One unnamed professor had multiple comments (multiple!) describing him as 'narcissistic', so I was able to quietly and triumphantly cross that guy off my list of Fall 2019 possibilities. I had a dream last night that one of the other professors I wanted to take was in the Trump administration, though, so I'm really not sure what that means. Can't be good. I just don't want the ratio of good to bad professors that I had this semester, which was a clean 50/50. (Don't worry, professor, you're in the good half). The right professor makes all of the difference. I have no plans for grad school at this time due to 1) lack of money and 2) lack of patience, but that doesn't mean that I'm fine with an asshole professor who can't string together a coherent thought and gives out arbitrary B+s to everyone. It's not that I'm so picky! It's that this semester, one of my professors read out loud from a packet of Bible quotes for 32 minutes. Not an exaggeration. So I'm trying to avoid that in the future. For anyone who also wants to avoid that, treat yourself to some light reading on the TRACE database.