I definitely had professors in my college days who seemed to think that their single class was the only one I was taking
...and that it's perfectly reasonable to assign a heavily footnoted $80 translation published by an academic press because it was written by someone you went to grad school with twenty years ago. I think there's a certain degree of artificial difficulty and inaccessibility you have to build into a college class so that the students take it seriously, but a lot of professors are just plain delusional.
Although, to be fair, the bar on what's "reasonable" does keep moving. It took me a few years to understand that young adults born in the 2000s can't really watch feature-length movies either, and that they need to be taught basic "just google it" skills. I used to be frustrated by this cultural shift, but I found that it's better for my mental health to accept it and move on.
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...and that it's perfectly reasonable to assign a heavily footnoted $80 translation published by an academic press because it was written by someone you went to grad school with twenty years ago. I think there's a certain degree of artificial difficulty and inaccessibility you have to build into a college class so that the students take it seriously, but a lot of professors are just plain delusional.
Although, to be fair, the bar on what's "reasonable" does keep moving. It took me a few years to understand that young adults born in the 2000s can't really watch feature-length movies either, and that they need to be taught basic "just google it" skills. I used to be frustrated by this cultural shift, but I found that it's better for my mental health to accept it and move on.