Here is the deal, Professor Penn is an *sshole. He is okay... I mean like he does tear your work apart and offer good critiques, but like he is not a good professor. Like, I never felt inspired by him, or like I really wanted to write something good. I also felt like a lot of people take fiction writing for a genre class and really just want to learn, but he treats you like you should already know. And he does picks favorites. Period. The girl that sat next to me sucked at writing, and got her papers torn a new one, never followed the assignment which he hated, and still did better than me because she reminded him of his daughter. Which, whatever.
If this is one of his students then he is a lousy English professor.
Like that’s just, you know, like, my opinion.