{"id":3598,"date":"2012-02-08T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2016-06-15T15:45:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T19:45:50","slug":"fake-emails-productive-or-stalkerish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3598","title":{"rendered":"fake emails: productive or stalkerish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aska!<\/p>\n<p>I am taking this 3rd year sociology class. There are over 60 students registered in this class, but only a handful show up to class, coz the prof is super boring. I heard from his past students that his classes are usually empty. Doesn&#8217;t the prof realize that the reason why no one shows up is cause he is so boring? This is UofT! Students don&#8217;t stop going to lectures for no reason.<br \/>\nIt is sketchy\/mean if I create an anonymous email account and send him an email telling him that he should improve his lecture?<br \/>\nI need your wise advice.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<br \/>\n-Very frustrated student.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/>\nYo yo frustrated student (although, which student isn&#8217;t frustrated with something or other),<\/p>\n<p>So, let me get this straight. You heard that the course was boring and you still took it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all about voicing your opinion but one, I associate fake emails with stalking and two, I can&#8217;t imagine he&#8217;s going to change his entire lecturing style based on one email. There&#8217;s a chance you&#8217;ll just make him pissed at every student in the class.<\/p>\n<p>You could go in to office hours and just tell him that you would find it helpful if he &#8230; i dunno brought puppets to class or any legitimate constructive criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; or go to class drunk.<\/p>\n<p>forever helpful (but probably not in this case),<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aska! I am taking this 3rd year sociology class. There are over 60 students registered in this class, but only a handful show up to class, coz the prof is super boring. I heard from his past students that his classes are usually empty. Doesn&#8217;t the prof realize that the reason why no one shows up is cause he is so boring? This is UofT! Students don&#8217;t stop going to lectures for no reason. It is sketchy\/mean if I create an anonymous email account and send him an email telling him that he should improve his lecture? I need your wise advice. Thanks -Very frustrated student. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Yo yo frustrated student (although, which student isn&#8217;t frustrated with something or other), So, let me get this straight. You heard that the course was boring and you still took it? I&#8217;m all about voicing your opinion but one, I associate fake emails with stalking and two, I can&#8217;t imagine he&#8217;s going to change his entire lecturing style based on one email. There&#8217;s a chance you&#8217;ll just make him pissed at every student in the class. You could go in to office hours and just tell him that you would find it helpful if he &#8230; i dunno brought puppets to class or any legitimate constructive criticism. &#8230; or go to class drunk. forever helpful (but probably not in this case), aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bored"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}