Terrible.

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don't use the verb to be ... she may kill you

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turn back your going the wrong way, your going the wrong way. never take her.

Never ever walk into class a minute late..she will make the biggest ass out of you..She's horrible!!

If you liked fifth grade, you'll love this class. If you think of yourself as a college student, however, avoid this professor at all costs.

One of the worst professors I've ever had. She makes you do a LOT of unnecessary work for little gain.

she is satan! avoid at all costs!

Arrogant and abusive to students. She should be FIRED. Are you listening, President McNairy?

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to put it simply, she is the antichrist. she gives you immense amounts of busywork. for example, you only get about 30 minutes to write a paper, then she grades it, and then you have to do formal corrections to it, all on paper. you do these formal corrections as many as 4 times for every paper.

Extremely Pompous. Get a grip lady, at the end of the game, all the pieces go back in the same box...

thinks she's superior to everybody. there is a rediculous amount of busywork, and the average student would be lucky to get a c in her class. god help you if you leave something at you dorms, cause she will dock you for it.

Mary Sheaffer aka W.P.E., worst professor ever. no kidding, hands down, she is awful. boring and extremely difficult. no question, she is the worst prof at MU.

Get out while you still can.

she is so freaking hard. nothing she talks about makes any sense. Her tests are so hard and she grades way too hard. Her essasy are unbelievably difficult.

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horrible horrible horrible old lady dressed in flourescent colors. she complains about EVERYTHING all the time and will spend the first 5 minutes of class ranting about something or other. she is very picky about little details that actually dont really matter. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

Early English Literature; The worst class I have ever had, and the worst professor I have ever had. Her assignments and readings are daunting tasks that take hours to complete. I think she expects you to have a Phd in English yourself. This is the only way you can have a semi-good grade in this course. You cannot contact her. Avoid at all costs.

RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN!!!!!! SAVE YOUR SANITY!

HORRIBLE, AWFUL, MISERABLE, and every other synonym for TERRIBLE!!!

horrible horrible class. i have never dreaded a class so much in my life. she goes on about nothing for the first 15 minutes of the period and then busts out a quiz. she thinks technology is the devil. shes the kind of professor that makes you want to burn your books after the final.

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE TEACHER!! Stay away from her stay far away.I've had some bad teachers in my time but she's at the top of my list. She tries to be nice and stuff but she's such a horrible teacher and when I tried to go in for help she corrected my english. You never hear anything good about her. I think she should go back to England and stay.

She is a mean version of Peter Pan! She even has the hat with the feather!!

This professor is impossible. She teaches history not English. Her tests are IMPOSSIBLE!!! NO JOKE, GET OUT NOW!!! I didn't listen, and am sorry I didn't!! I just dropped now, after getting a F! Lots of heavy reading, hard to understand. Very difficult subject matter. All around, just impossible. Do not take!!!!

Do not take her unless you absolutly love history and english. She is awful, she doesnt have email so you can never get in touch with her and she is so strange to talk to. Her class is really hard and you will hate her while youre there. She keeps you late and bores you to death. her out fits are funny tho

Horrible. Took her 12 years ago, and all I remember is her stupid slides from her many trips to England. Returned for my masters degree and discovered she hasn't changed a bit. Avoid at all costs.

DO NOT TAKE HER!!! Seriously, she is impossible even if you read you will still be lost. Plus she dresses like a manic and says the weirdest stuff. Do your self a favor and get out now!

DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS! You will read and prepare for class and still be completely lost. She jumps quickly from poem to poem and when reading over your notes they never make sense.

I had this class assigned to me my first semester at Millersville. I wish I would have known then to GET OUT WHILE I STILL COULD! DO NOT TAKE. Her tests are impossible...you basically have to find out from a student in another class what her essay question is going to be and study your butt of if you want to pass. I got a C. Worst Grade EVER!

Ms. Sheaffer is an interesting woman. Her class is VERY challenging. There is no question that a lot of time will be devoted to studying for her exams which are very difficult to study for. I have learned a lot of information (most of which I do not find necessary). If you have her, be prepared to work very hard. She is a tough professor!!

DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH DR. SHEAFFER! She is terrible !

Her test questions are vague and extremely broad, but the answers she is looking for seem very specific. The workload is absolutely intense, some assignments being 200 to 300 pages of material within 2 days. her study questions have nothing to do with the tests she gives, and her lectures have even less useful information.

STAY AWAY I can't even begin to tell you how bad she is. Paid money for books we didn't use. She doesn't help students and talks in different languages in an English class which is crazy. She's beyond rude and needs to be fired. Students are signing a petition already.

Avoid this class at all costs! she is extremely rude and the amount of work asked to do for a basis english class is ridiculous. Doesn't grade fairly and the final/quizzes are extremely difficult. also doesn't believe in technology, so no email or typing ANYTHING. avoid for your own good.

She basically hates everyone in her class. She will assign an essay, called "themes" which you have 15 minutes to write. However, she expects the quality of those essays to be the same as an essay you would take 2 hours to write. 2 minor errors could a C+. You must revise the themes, then revise your revisions, etc.

Do not take this class. She is very unclear and very hard to please. I stopped going to this class with a month and a half left because no matter how many times I saw her for help I got an F. Everything was on time, I was going through family problems and was sick. I spent hours on my work and she didn't believe I tried and was rude to the class.

Dr. Sheaffer is extremely tedious when she has a student redo essay corrections. She will make her students rewrite an entire essay corrections page when the corrections have one minor mistake.

Worst professor Ive had or ever will have. Doesn't teach any material, just talks about random things for the whole class. Everything is specific and must be her way. Things she calls mistakes and errors are actually just things she doesn't like. You write in class essays in 15-25 Minutes. Correct your errors on those, and then the corrections too.

Absolute horror. Do not take a class with her or you will regret it and randomly burst into tears. She never stays on topic but expects you to know everything even if she doesn't go over it. If you can take this class with ANYONE else, do it. I literally haven't learned anything and the final is today.

Dr. Sheaffer is one of the worst teachers I have ever had. She basically does not teach English. Every day for most of the class we went over sentences that she would find in the newspaper or from people on the public bus. These sentences had minimal errors and did not teach us anything. After our "warm up" she would discuss her vast knowledge about everything that had nothing to do with the class. We also had daily foreign languages lessons like Yiddish, German, and Italian. She also forces you to do reviews on all your themes aka essays until it is up to her standard. So, that means 8-9 themes with 4-7 reviews attached. If this folder is not handed in perfectly you will not pass. My advice TAKE ANOTHER TEACHER IF POSSIBLE!!!!! Your life will be hell if you take her!

Worst teacher I've ever had! No exaggeration! She basically expects you to be able to write a doctoral dissertation for your essays. Even If you're a straight A student and put in all the work, expect to get a C- or lower on everything. Your GPA will DROP! She's from an outdated era of teaching, that is fortunately dying out with the teachers.

Don't take 233 with Sheaffer. She treats the course like it's 400 level. The issue really is she expects you to know everything about some 30 different readings for the exams, yet only talks about maybe 6 during class. Exams were 10 word association and an essay. The essay was 90 points out of 100, so try your best! She just expects way too much.

I've taken 2 classes with Dr. Sheaffer. Her expectations are unreasonable. For example, the last class I took with her, I got an 81 and a 90 on two tests. Excluding her class, I got a 4.0. I still don't know my final grade, because she left campus without turning in grades. The university hasn't been able to contact her. If you value you GPA, avoid

DON'T TAKE THIS PROF! It's a 200-level course and she treats it like a 400-level. There are over 100 different readings on the syllabus. She only talks about maybe 10% of them in class, yet you're expected to know them all for the tests, which are impossible with no direction whatsoever. I wish I had more characters to talk about how awful she is.

Dr. Sheaffer is a very intellectual person, however not fit to be a teacher in my opinion. You have to write an essay every other class, and she is an extremely tough grader. She gives you a homework assignment every class, but never checks that you did them. There is so much reading! All I have to say is, you will learn quick. Good luck!

I struggled with this class a lot! I had a hard time following along and focusing, she jumps from different topics and always calls on people based on their body language.

DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT TAKE ANY CLASS WITH THIS WOMAN. She will give you loads of homework and never look at them to see if you actually did it. You have "themes" to do every other class, which are basically essays, and when she grades them she never gives you higher than a B. I have personally only gotten Cs and Ds on everything!! GPA REDUCER

She tries to make you read 20+ authors per era, half will be discussed in class, half will be tested on. She treats the course like it is an independent study and discusses things that are extremely off topic (then mocks you for saying something). Also a tough grader; she refused to give out A's because "it implies one has nothing else to learn."

No electronics allowed for any work aside from research outside of class, indecipherable grading system, rambles so frequently you cannot tell what your actual homework assignments are because she's rambling about some unrelated event she was reminded of, and has made multiple racist statements in class.

Not an engaging class. There's no point to the lectures given because she rambles on about unrelated topics several different times a class period. No technology whatsoever. Had to write all 9 themes in pen. Gave us several different homework assignments a class period but doesn't go over them until the very end of the semester when thy're needed.

Worst professor ever. Do not take this class. She needs to retire. She is disrespectful to her students. She acts as if she knows everything and makes you feel stupid when she is the one that makes no sense. She grades you well only if she likes you. Her assignments make no sense. This class was TERRIBLE.

Professor Sheaffer was not only difficult to communicate with in person, but hard to get ahold of outside of class. Overall, I don't have anything that I have taken out of the class. She is a VERY tough grader and expects a lot from you in a short period of time. If you are wanting an easy course do not take her any class with her.