I know I have.
In fact, I had these very thoughts cross my mind at least 20 times, just today:
Professors must not remember what it is like to be a student.
They didn't have to work as hard to get through school as we do.
None of my teachers understand my situation.
But have any of us ever tried to think about the situation, from their perspective? We constantly expect them to do so for us, so why can't we do so for them?
We judge them for having TA's, but can you blame them? I mean, many of the classes that do have TA's have them because they have 250+ students per class! I have a hard enough time completing the assignment once, let alone going through it 250 times.
We also condemn them for giving us a lot of work, yet we want to get every penny's worth of knowledge out of our courses. How can we expect to do so without putting in the elbow grease for it?
It's amazing how a slight situation shift can change your whole perspective. Having recently gone from a crew member to a supervisor at my job, I'm coming to notice myself judging the crew for things they do, that I myself did just a week prior. If my perspective on that can change in a week, I'm sure the perspective of a professor has had a lot of time to change and mold.
Yet even while writing this post, I got upset thinking how my professor probably won't reopen a quiz for me to take since I had no access to wifi for 3 hours when my car broke down today. Obviously no one is perfect, but I sure think we can try a lot harder to work towards it.
So, the next time you feel like complaining about the homework you're sitting down to do, take a second and do a perspective check. Maybe you need to step outside of your own reality to see the whole picture.
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