I received A's in every single Liberal Arts class that I took at U.T. I had a good strategy going: I would write my papers as far to the left as I possible could. My senior year I coudn't take it anymore and wrote that "religion can help people understand morality" and received the lowest grade in the class. I barely passed the class! I started being left-wing with the remaining papers and was able to receive a C.
I wrote a paper in a proto-Marxian, very convoluted, dissolute way, and the guy gave me a low grade. After saying content would be the only standard, he graded on style. He gave up after a couple of pages. I participated in every discussion, did all the work, showed up when he decided not to let anybody know he was blowing the class off, got 4.0s on projects and got a 2.0.
I'm not exactly sure what I did wrong, other than say what I think, and try to get discussions going when no one else would by fleshing out ideas.
I guess I wasn't toady enough.
I mean, that guy was SUCH a moron. It was amazing. He BARELY had a class plan. Seriously, the guy was so disorganized and emotional...the worst teacher I ever had.