This article is hilarious.
“You have no control over your grade,” he said. “It doesn’t matter how … hard you work.”
Later in the video, the professor explained he based his grading system on the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, which posits that God has already assigned people for salvation before birth, so no action they take in life can change that.
“None of you … are good enough to earn an A in my class,” Mehler said, adding, “So I randomly assign grades before the first day of class. I don’t want to know [anything] about you. I don’t even want to know your name. I just look at the number and I assign a grade. That is how predestination works.
“And don’t come … complaining to me. Take your complaints to God.”