It's 10x more ridiculous because this is a graduate program. We all ought to be professionals by now.
This is kind of the approach I've been taking so far, but honestly maybe I need to amp it up to the next level and make it obvious. As in, when he's being deliberately abusive or pointlessly argumentative, whenever that is, get up and walk away, rather than sitting through it.
You mentioned the tangent questions, and you're absolutely right. He's kind of infamous for those, to the point where I watched a professor's eyes pop and he rocked back in his seat when my classmate was getting riled up and nasty about something OT.
Yeah, no, not excited at all. I'll talk to my groupmates about it, and if they think that having the professor take this guy aside and talk to him or relocate him would help, then I'll approach the prof.
Re: Hostile classmate- help?
This is kind of the approach I've been taking so far, but honestly maybe I need to amp it up to the next level and make it obvious. As in, when he's being deliberately abusive or pointlessly argumentative, whenever that is, get up and walk away, rather than sitting through it.
You mentioned the tangent questions, and you're absolutely right. He's kind of infamous for those, to the point where I watched a professor's eyes pop and he rocked back in his seat when my classmate was getting riled up and nasty about something OT.
Yeah, no, not excited at all. I'll talk to my groupmates about it, and if they think that having the professor take this guy aside and talk to him or relocate him would help, then I'll approach the prof.