The New Professor Buttface Strikes Back!

I should probably come up with a new name for this guy since "the New Professor Buttface" is kinda wordy...

Anyways, the first paper for his class was due today (I just turned it in thank God now I can watch more Prison Break on Netflix - don't get me started about the dreamyness that is Wentworth Miller).  This whole week, I had been struggling trying to figure out the prompt, because it just didn't seem to correlate with anything we had read.  I was really starting to think "Jeesus am I really this dense? Like I can't be the only one completely confused by this vague prompt."

As part of our participation grade for this class, we have to post a 1-2 sentence response about the week's reading on Blackboard.  So yesterday when I went on Blackboard to post mine, I noticed my friend had made his post already, so I decided to read it just out of curiosity.  When I read his post, he was referencing shit that I had never heard about before.

And then it hit me.  The New Professor Buttface had intentionally omitted the relevant reading from the required reading list.  It was subtly mentioned in one of his lecture slides as a "suggested" reading.  But if you had not come to class and/or studied his lecture slides, you would have never known about this reading which was absolutely necessary to understanding the prompt for our paper assignment.  Making this shit even more convoluted, the relevant reading  was by the same author as the reading on the required list.  So when he told us "to read the Frankfurt Essay," he really should have said: "There are 2 Frankfurt readings and I want you to read both."

Like I was so fucking mad at this guy.  I am willing to do your fucking readings and your fucking assignments, but don't play Jigsaw with me.  I don't have time to play your goddamn mind games.  Just make it clear what you want me to do and I'll do it!  He did this to emphasize the importance of coming to lecture, but like come on.  It's one thing to give the kids that come to lecture some hints about what will be on the exam or something like that.  But to intentionally fuck with the students who decided a good night's sleep was worth more than your boring-ass lecture??  That is completely uncalled for.  Like I said, I understand teachers like to reward students for making the effort to come to lecture.  But actively setting traps for the students who don't attend lecture is beyond absurd.  Like dude you need to calm the fuck down, nobody in this goddamn universe cares about you or your course that much.