You did well, mate. You can hold your head high. I’m from an anti-education environment so I can relate to your sentiment.

I’m not a prof myself, but a PhD student with teaching duty. My prof went full emergency/survival mode this year to somehow deal with the amount of students. It’s going to be a worse experience for the students even though he and the PhD students spent a lot more time than usual on preparations. I’m only able to speak from my own viewpoint, but I’d put the blame on, partially, the uni admin for ignoring the issues, but mostly on political neglect. With conservatives in power here in Germany, I have little hope. And in the US, I’d probably have left.

Did you get addicted and bought tons of candy later?

Holy shit. Kids, man O.O

I teach at uni. sorry to hear that. Did you try to get the problems fixed, even if not successfully? Did you still try to learn and understand the material? If so, i won’t blame you.

It’s tough because on this side, the overhead and also the cheating exploded with COVID and with ai. We need more people to improve classes but there is no money and everyone is over capacity. My class grew from 25 to 150 students within 3 years and there is no help.

That sucks. I think the blame is on them for misconfiguration.