From Wired Blogs:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/top-5-reasons-i.html

I’m going to plagiarize the article a bit.

5. Awful Textbooks

4. Professors are Rarely Encouraging
During each class, a professor that would rather be tending to his research will waltz up to a blackboard or overhead projector and scribble out equations for an hour without uttering a single sentence to create some excitement.

Hi Five! The author couldn’t have been more Spot On. I remember this one prof i had for ECE 205 (Electrical and Computer Engineering). I don’t remember his name but I think it was Dr Zhao or something close. Anyway, after one particularly dull and monotonic lecture where Z scribbled formulas onto the blackboard with his back to us for a Solid Hour, I went with a friend to his apartment apartment and he wrote to the newsgroup “Hi I’m Doctor Z. I really have to go home and take a dump, so instead of teaching you anything i’ll copy the book onto the blackboard.”

Unfortunately he didn’t cover up his name or anything. Stupid! He called him into his office and asked if he had any problems with his teaching methods. Not like he would have cared anyway! Luckily he was a fair guy, perhaps he even had a sense of humor. Dr Z told him, “Ordinarily I’d give you a C in the class and forget it, but I can understand why you are frustrated”. He didn’t say he Wouldn’t give a C, and I think he did anyway. Well, lesson learned.

3. Dearth of Quality Counseling

My adviser was so uncaring and inattentive that the only advice I got from his office was from his secretary, a woman who didn’t even go to college, forget about UIUC engineering.

2. Other Disciplines Have Inflated Grades

1. Every Assignment Feels the Same