Rate My Professor – A Guest Post by Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn (@avongalewrites @pipervaughn)

RATE MY PROFESSOR

Georgia State University
Sebastian Cruz (Sociology)

HE’S THE DEVIL

1.0: Overall Quality

5.0: Level of Difficulty

Tags: Tough Grader, Get Ready To Read, Skip Class? You Won’t Pass, Lecture-Heavy

UGH drop this class if you have it HE IS THE WORST! He expects you to read like a million things and will give you a bad grade if you can’t write like a textbook. Also if you skip class more than three times he will take points off!! It’s intro to sociology like CALM DOWN DUDE

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Dr. Cruz? More like Model Cruz

5.0: Overall Quality

5.0 Level of Difficulty

Tags: Get Ready To Read, Lots of Papers, Participation Required

OMG his class was hard and he’s a tough grader but I never skipped class because – have you seen him?? If all my profs looked like him I’d have perfect attendance lmao

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Smart But Not Friendly

Tags: Lots of Papers, Inspirational, Tough Grader

4.0: Overall Quality

5.0: Level of Difficulty

Dr. Cruz is really smart and knows what he’s talking about but seriously the guy looks like he stubbed his toe on the way in the door before every class. Why so mad, Dr. C?

Also one time I went to his office hours and I thought he was going to murder me.

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Super Smart, Young, Passionate

Tags: Inspirational, Participation Required, Tough Grader, Lots of Papers, Amazing Lectures

5.0: Overall Quality

2.0: Level of Difficulty

I took Dr. Cruz’s intro to soc class and I don’t think it was that hard. You do have to come to class but why are you in college if you’re not here to go to class? Dr. Cruz is obviously passionate about his subject matter and knows a lot, and really wants people to understand the concepts. I’d like to take a higher level class with him because I bet when he gets to talk about stuff that isn’t just intro material and to a bunch of stupid jocks who “thinks he’s evil” or whatever, I bet he’s a wonderful teacher.

He did look mad a lot though but I would too if I had to teach these idiots all day. Stay strong, Professor Cruz.

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Extra Credit

Tags: Gives Good Feedback

5.0: Overall Quality

3.0: Level of Difficulty

Look I don’t care what I would have to do to get an A in this class instead of a B I would do it. If you read these Dr. Cruz then I was in your class last fall and got a B and I would really REALLY do anything to get a better grade 😉

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IMPOSSIBLE

Tags: Lots of Homework, Tough Grader

1.0: Overall Quality

5.0: Level of Difficulty

DON’T TAKE THIS DUDE’S CLASS HE HATES EVERYONE

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Amazing Lecturer, Great Prof

Tags: Respected, Inspirational, Gives Good Feedback, Tough Grader

5.0: Overall Quality

4.0: Level of Difficulty

I don’t know why people think this is such a hard class, because if you show up, do the work and LISTEN then it really isn’t. I love the perspective Dr. Cruz brought to the concepts because of his own experiences and how he’s not afraid to share them. Also to the girl who wants extra credit, you probably got a B because you missed too many classes – if not, you’d know he was gay.

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Thanks for joining Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn on the OFF THE ICE blog tour. In the Hat Trick series, love and hockey collide—and create enough heat to melt the ice. Join the players as they chase both the Stanley Cup and their own personal happily ever afters.

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About Off the Ice

Tristan Holt is nothing if not pragmatic. Despite a flourishing career as a defenseman for the Atlanta Venom, Tristan knows he can’t play hockey forever. One day he’ll retire—if an injury doesn’t force him to hang up his skates first. His backup plan? Finishing his business degree. But he doesn’t count on a very inappropriate attraction to his standoffish sociology professor, Sebastian Cruz.

Sebastian is on the bottom rung of the Sociology Department at Georgia State. He has his sights set on tenure, and he can’t afford to be distracted, especially not by a sexy student with a body straight out of Sebastian’s dreams. No matter how much Tristan tempts him, that’s one line Sebastian won’t cross. At least not until summer classes end. After that, everything is fair game.

But Sebastian lives loud and proud, and Tristan is terrified of being the first out player in the NHL. Neither of them can afford to risk their hearts when they can’t imagine a happily ever after. The problem is, unlike hockey, when it comes to love, there are no rules.

Available now from Riptide Publishing. http://www.riptidepublishing.com/titles/off-the-ice

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About Avon Gale

Avon grew up in the southern United States, and now lives with her very patient husband in a liberal Midwestern college town. When she’s not writing, she’s either doing some kind of craft project that makes a huge mess, reading, watching horror movies, listening to music or yelling at her favorite hockey team to get it together, already. Avon is always up for a road trip, adores Kentucky bourbon, thinks nothing is as stress relieving as a good rock concert, and will never say no to candy.

At one point, Avon was the mayor of both Jazzercise and Lollicup on Foursquare. This tells you basically all you need to know about her as a person.

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About Piper Vaughn

Piper Vaughn wrote her first love story at eleven and never looked back. Since then, she’s known that writing in some form was exactly what she wanted to do. A reader at the core, Piper loves nothing more than getting lost in a great book—fantasy, young adult, romance, sci-fi, she loves them all (and has an over-two-thousand-book library to prove it!). She’s an avid tea drinker, a hockey fanatic, a vintage typewriter collector, and loves to travel so much she has “wanderlust” tattooed on her ankle and dozens of countries on her bucket list. Recently, she discovered the world of nail art and realized she’s pretty handy with a paintbrush—as long as it’s a miniature one.

As a bisexual and Latinx person, Piper takes great pride in her heritage. She grew up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood and strives to put faces and characters of every ethnicity in her stories, so her fictional worlds are as colorful as the real one. She currently resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband, son, and a cat that has Piper wrapped around her little paw. Above all, she believes that everyone needs a little true love in their life … even if it’s only in a book.

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Giveaway

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