--- title: Video: Professors Read Rate My Professors Reviews description: Lehigh University professors read reviews of themselves on Rate My Professor in video canonical: https://time.com/3340958/professors-read-rate-my-professors-reviews/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-12T18:36:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:10.103Z og:title: Video: Professors Read Rate My Professors Reviews og:description: "Awefull" was the best these college kids could come up with? og:url: https://time.com/3340958/professors-read-rate-my-professors-reviews/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9f5f4bc9b930c52/6986a31ee53abad6154d4644/rate-my-professor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: rate-my-professor og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Video: Professors Read Rate My Professors Reviews twitter:description: "Awefull" was the best these college kids could come up with? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9f5f4bc9b930c52/6986a31ee53abad6154d4644/rate-my-professor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Professors Read Their Own Reviews on Rate My Professors > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 12, 2014 6:36 PM UTC  (c) A-Digit 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/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3340958/professors-read-rate-my-professors-reviews/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3340958/professors-read-rate-my-professors-reviews/"},"headline":"Watch Professors Read Their Own Reviews on Rate My Professors","datePublished":"2014-09-12T18:36:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:10.103Z","description":"Don't call your professor \"awefull,\" kids.","url":"https://time.com/3340958/professors-read-rate-my-professors-reviews/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Education","viral","Videos","Students","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9f5f4bc9b930c52/6986a31ee53abad6154d4644/rate-my-professor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9f5f4bc9b930c52/6986a31ee53abad6154d4644/rate-my-professor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"rate-my-professor","caption":"","creditText":"(c) A-Digit","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3340958/professors-read-rate-my-professors-reviews/","name":"Watch Professors Read Their Own Reviews on Rate My Professors"}}]}] ```