Oops. It is so interesting!
As the semester ends, students at this university are handed a form to bubble in with a few questions asking the subject appreciation gained from the course and, more importantly, how they evaluate the instructor over a series of factors. These are pivotal and powerful pieces of paper as they are read by department heads long before they get back to the professors themselves. It is important to make the comments count.
I had the pleasure of being under the wing of Professor Kraige for my dynamics course. He wrote the book and was able to nicely incorporate problem studies into the lectures. This was one of those classes where you begin with a general frustration with the material and eventually are laughing with engineering or physics jokes in class (or worse, telling them yourself). Kraige is likely the best professor I’ve had at this university; having a diehard commitment to students, impeccable organization and lecture control, very well proposed instruction. If I came to class having read the material for the day, I knew I would leave with a full understanding of the topic. That’s a relief I wasn’t as blessed with in the other courses.
Over the past few days I’ve had to fill out a few other course evaluations, mind you. In others, I’ve filled in bubbles corresponding to “less than stimulating presentation”, “poor organization” and the dreaded “strongly disagree”. And the comments that followed those evaluations were no better, but they were a relief for me to put to paper and submit to the higher powers that be - particularly the one where I eventually felt justified by using the phrases “adamantly cynical”, “purposefully pessimistic” and “incredible ability to waste lecture time with broad tangensts”. It’s a shame to have courses like that but a great salvation to see yourself through the semester still breathing.
And lately, my comments have picking up the pace. Or rather, the many many many spam comments that I receive and mark as such have been becoming more lively than simple links to various websites. One of my favorite approaches has been the maybe-they’ll-think-I’m-a-real-person-comment-and-then-click-the-link. I still have a hard time chuckling at this one… “Bad day for me 
I dont know what to do. Maybe suicide halp me?” I won’t even mention the links they provide afterwords - I’m sure some of you have had the pleasure of deleting that comment, over and over. Nevertheless, the spam continues with newer ways of forging legitimacy.
Oh well. The studying at the bunker begins tomorrow. I wish everyone else luck.