I can’t hear you!
Facing some major issues with the professor in one of my modules now. He speaks in a whisper, and to quote Mithi - his voice is like a cosine graph.
He starts off just audible. And as his lecture (or sometimes, as bad as within the span of one sentence) progresses, his voice slowly trails off until he becomes barely audible, and soon after - he is basically just whispering to himself.
How to get Mr Cosine Graph back to his maximum value?
Just yell.
“PROF! WE CAN’T HEAR YOU!”
He then starts off just audible again, and trails off soon after. Basically, it’s deja vu all over again. What we really need now is a permanent solution to make the fellow heard.
My mates and I basically struggled throughout the entire lecture, asking him to repeat almost everything, making the whole lecture drag on even longer. Plus, the gaps in his sentences due to his occasional softness makes me feel as if I’m working on a ‘fill in the blank’ puzzle.
Next week, I am going to fight for a seat in the front row. All the frontal seats were full by the time I reached the classroom yesterday.
Oh, and the best part?
After much feedback from the class about his volume, he seemed to become slightly more conscious about his speech - and beckoned to another coursemate sitting near the back row.
“CAN YOU HEAR ME?” he err … yelled. Sort of.
To him, he may be yelling but to me (and possibly the rest of the class), he was just slightly above audible.
“Huh?!?” said coursemate shot my friends and I a puzzled look.
“Why is he asking me to clear him?!?”
C O M M E N T S (5)
I have a teacher like that too this term. Although, for me, it’s a figure drawing class, so generally the room is quite small and it’s not too hard to pick out what he’s saying.
Harhar. Just thought about a mean way. Hows about planting a little seed of rumor at the faculty? Pretty soon, he’ll get a clue from one of his messmates :)
It is the same with people who talk too fast to understand, which happened to me in Spain when someone wanted to pass his phone number for the boss to call back, and he talked waaayyto fast: nuevedosochcincinodossiete…..like a machine pistol. When ebing asked to please speak a little slower (for the slow German internship girl) he began slowly: nueeeevvveeee—doooooooos—-oooooocho but then finished as fast as he did before. No chance.
You teacher does not need a mic, but a megaphone:-)))
Awww. I hope it gets better. My math professor is kind of the same way but she eventually got a mic.
He… needs a mic.
Brenda’s reply: There is this built in mic on the ceiling in the rooms which catches the professor’s voice (within a certain boundary) and amplifies it, which is why most professors here generally don’t use mics. But I agree, this professor needs a mic on top of the existing mic!