&gt; I could recount the time when a professor chose to replace her all twelve of her lectures with student presentations, then tested us on entirely untaught content; or perhaps the other time when submitted assignments and tests were not marked or discussed, at all, so that the only feedback was a numerical result at the end of the semester.<p>&gt; I could choose to say that this is symptomatic of a system where research is king and teaching is for peons and undergraduates are lower than dirt.<p>&gt; Or I could choose to say that perhaps some professors are just bad at their jobs. Or, even, they just had a bad semester. The advantage is that I could do this without cherry-picking the outliers.<p>Which is to say, you just <i>did</i> do all those things; you were just passive-agressive about it.