After registering for the majority of next semester's classes, I panicked and changed the day/time for my English class simply to get a different teacher. Why, you ask? Ratemyprofessors.com got me all paranoid. Before, I'd consult the site and take the recommendations that students had given on professors with a grain of salt, assuming that many of the students had been lazy or were trying to get their teacher back for a bad grade.

But last semester I ignored the ratings on one of my professors and signed up for the class, and I spent the whole semester regretting it. I look at the rating now, and it fits her completely. So after I saw a big blue sad face next to my future English teacher, I quickly dropped her and added the teacher with a nice yellow smiley face. She has a tamale, too, but that doesn't do me any good. Perhaps the students are biased, but I don't want to have another harpy teacher. I need at least a semester to heal.