Tainted Professor Perceptions

As a student in Stony Brook University I've come to realize that its the habit of some professors to gauge a students performance by their overall enthusiasm in their class.Professors tend to equate a students enthusiasm with a good worth ethic, whether it be organic or artificial. Ive found that I treat college as the business that it essentially is. It is for that reason that I treat each course I take a work place situation where the person teaching the course remains just that and nothing more. I believe when students use an over emphatic approach in a class they create an unrealistic real world relation between teacher and student, boss and employee etc....

When viewing the classroom environment I personally find it difficult to not look at it a very literal sense. We as students pay to take a course administered by human beings who possess the very human traits of favoritism, and spite. Furthermore The person teaching the class possesses the ability to determine whether or not your work is good enough to allow for the successful completion of it.With that being said I realize that there are essential individual "transactions" between each student and the professor. Within these transactions there is the exchange of humility on the students part for an opportunity to be evaluated on a basis that is free of the aforementioned traits that a professor is very capable of possessing.

It is my belief that in order to gain leverage, many students take 1 of 2 courses of action. The 1st course of action is to appease a professors ego by convincing him/her that the material in which they gained multiple degrees in is worth learning and is interesting. The other course of action is inform others of professors shortcoming by word of mouth and more recently electronically through sources such as ratemyprofessors.com. The latter is exceptionally interesting because despite many professors claims that rating from the site don't affect them at all,many will admit to viewing the site by refuting the claims being made on the site.