Contrary to Stated Objectives, Professor Is In Fact Interested in Seeing If You Can Just Memorize Things

In what could be described as the complete opposite of the objectives outlined both in the class syllabus and during the first lecture, your History 161 professor is, in fact, primarily interested in how well you can memorize names and dates and cares little about whether or not you can think and learn for yourself.

"Professors say stuff like that all the time, so I didn't think too much about it when he was all, 'I'm not here to test you on how well you can memorize things' and stuff like that," you were heard complaining to your roommate after the class's first midterm exam on Tuesday. "But come on. Don't kid yourself...you're a history professor."

Despite a course description that spoke of "an emphasis on critical thinking and student-led discussion," these statements are, according to you, "total bullshit," as evidenced by the 36-point portion of the exam consisting of twelve questions requiring you to match a notable post-Civil War event with the year in which it occurred.

Sources close to you say that considering that it is a history class, you are "not so much pissed off that [you] had to know dates," but more the fact that "he made it sound like [you] wouldn't for some reason, and then [you] did. [You] mean, what the hell? [You] hate that prick."