Throughout the week of registration, students flock to ratemyprofessors.com, weighing the reviews of professors against one another in a digital gladiator-style showdown to carefully craft the perfect class schedule for the semester ahead.
Originally launched in 1999, the site feels like a relic of the earlier internet — a time when anonymity was the standard and consequences felt fuzzy. It’s a space where students, often under the guise of helpfulness, rate their professors in tones that swing wildly from thoughtful critique to high school gossip.
There’s a quiet kind of cruelty baked into Rate My Professor that masquerades as usefulness. And we’d urge you to exercise your internet literacy before using it…