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Reading from Rate My Professors_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 12, 2014 6:36 PM UTC Reading from Rate My Professors by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 12, 2014 6:36 PM UTC Taking a nod from Jimmy Kimmel, who likes to torment celebrities by making them[ read mean tweets ](http://time.com/108903/celebrities-read-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/)about themselves, [Lehigh University ](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC23dbHbfH-kOntle-7eqVgw)had some of their professors sit down and read some highlights (and some lowlights) of their reviews on [Rate My Professors, ](http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/)a websites where students write their honest opinions of teachers. Not surprisingly, the professors seemed unmoved by evaluations accusing them of “rambling about relevant topics” or being “awefull”—yep, that’s how one student spelled it. **MORE**: [The Newest Drake Meme Shows That He Can Never Escape His True Identity as Jimmy From _Degrassi_](http://time.com/3329318/drake-face-on-wheelchair-signs-in-toronto/) **MORE**: [Watch an Adorable Bear Cub Dance on a Golf Course](http://time.com/3340843/bear-golf-course-dance/) ## Transcript [00:03] Awfully boring class if you are not interested in [00:06] environmental engineering. Basically, the entire class is [00:09] about water. Well, it is intro to environmental [00:12] engineering that I was teaching, so. OK, [00:16] duly noted. It says I'm useless to the IPD program, [00:21] General Moron. General Moron? Useless to the IPD [00:25] program? Hell, I started the dang IPD program! Well, it [00:29] looks like my students find me awefull. Kashi is [00:33] awesome, as long as she isn't throwing shoes at you [00:36] and threatening to jack you up [ MUSIC ] I know who [00:39] you are. [ LAUGH ] Pretty chill dude, except [00:44] his lectures are boring. If you're not willing to pay [00:47] attention. [ LAUGH ] He rambles a lot about relevant [00:50] topics. Rambling about relevance? That's the whole [00:53] point of academics. You ramble about things that are [00:55] out there, right? We're trying to teach business [00:57] economics. His exams are equal to a bar exam given [01:01] by a Harvard law professor. If you want to murder your [01:05] GPA [ LAUGH ] take this class. You [01:11] gotta learn the details, you have to get into the [01:14] functionality of stuff, and you have to ramble a lot. The [01:18] Political Economy of Iraq was a waste of my time, I [01:21] didn't learn anything more the, from his firsthand [01:23] insight. Than I would have from a CNN article. Thanks [01:29] mom. [ LAUGH ] Professors are good at rambling, I can [01:33] ramble for about an hour. I'll keep talking here to you [01:36] and you've gotta listen because you're sitting in that [01:38] chair and you can't get away from me. Too difficult and [01:41] too much work for a freshman seminar. Three papers, [01:45] mid term, and ten page final paper. Really? Four [01:49] books in press, two lectures to prep for, waking up at [01:53] 4 A. M. to get ready for this too difficult class. I [01:59] would enjoy eating the rectum of a brown exotic [02:01] Australian toad more than taking his classes. I have [02:05] some colleagues in biology that could maybe arrange [02:07] that for you. So enjoy. Bon appétit. [ LAUGH ] [02:14] Economics is relevant. Product development is [02:17] relevant. Business is relevant. Entrepreneurship is [02:20] relevant. I do those things. You gotta listen. And, [02:23] you've got to learn the fundamentals. 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