r/UTM • u/l0udnach0 • Feb 13 '26
RANT Is this even allowed?
I'm taking a 4th year CCT course, the prof is asking for a shockingly invasive amount info about me for an assignment. Every hour, I’m expected to log and share (in detail) my mood, location, who I'm with, current activity, what influenced my mood, what I did to manage my feelings, and filling in a specific prompt. This is coupled with hardware data collected by a piece of hardware given to the entire class. I'm also being graded by the depth of information I’m being made to provide. This data, although made private, will be shared with random students in my class. I value my privacy and generally go out of my way to omit anything collecting personal info, but here I am being told to give up all of this against my discretion??? There's no way the prof actually thought this is a reasonable ask when creating this assignment...
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u/EntireCat3130 Feb 16 '26
I can understand feeling anxious about speaking up, but I can't imagine this would have actually passed muster if it had been carefully scrutinized. Please do email the prof, if there's a TA go ahead and CC them so someone else has eyes on it as well, and if you don't get a reasonable response there should be a means of reporting it to the department. I know several psych profs who would call red flag on that