User blog comment:Ckohrs0221/Ck's Guide to Roleplaying Professors/@comment-26164274-20170831120640

From a student RPer standpoint:

I've always hated it when teachers GM and never bother to check the student's page on their strengths and weaknesses. I know, that would be a lot of work, checking and rechecking who's good at this class and that, and even worse when barely anyone bothers to write down more specific RP posts rather than "they focused and attempted the spell" esque posts. Like, guys, what happened to your chars? Did they suddenly just lose all feeling and personality once they walked through the door of class doom? Where's the snark, where's the under the breath complaining, where's people mumbling about how easy this one is and how useless that ine is, where's mocking the teacher (don't look at me like that, you know I'm right.), where's the life that I see you post with when I stalk your other RPs?

I live for IC gloating, IC jealousy, more material for IC complaining about this and that, and mortifying incidents in class when a spell goes astray and hits the wrong thing or person. There are so many ways a class could get interesting and address everyone's character development but most of that goes untouched because effort only ever seems to go into personal RPs. Guilty of this as much as everyone else is tbh and you can't really blame them because frankly, we don't have control over classes. We have control over our ships, out of class shenanigans, etc. Either we're just so indifferent to the stuff that goes on outside of our IC plans, or we're scared of losing what little power we have, or worse, both.

That's why it sucks when us with students don't list down what our characters are good at and what they suck at. Sorry for the amount of "I"s in this comment (i don't like it anymore than you do lmao) but my input.

In not so short: I wish we could focus on how messy and confusing class interactions can get. I wish we could have more characters mishearing and mispronouncing and getting caught in crossfires. I wish people could realize how amazing classes really are. Go on and tell me your real life class experiences haven't affected your life or shaped you in any way shape or form. Try. We all know it's not true.

I wrote this in Dunkin Donuts and I think I lost my point and sense of organization halfway through. Whoops, my bad.