Thank you to both of you for your responses. I do get the feeling that if I can make it through the quarter with a decent grade, I shouldn't push too far with this. DesiginingWoman, you make a good point that if the professor is tenured, it won't do much good for me to pursue resolution for these issues. IceCreamKid, I do know that I deserve better. I went to a private high school that cared for its students on such an individual basis that I had a hard time comprehending it - I was sure that it was all a farse. But it wasn't. Then coming to a huge university, where professors don't even seem to care ... it just seems backwards to me. I thought that the higher you go in education, the more important you become and the more important your learning becomes. But it appears like the opposite ...