The psyching yourself out about philosophy bit wouldn't surprise me, honestly. We haven't really had any discussion, so I don't really know how I will feel about it yet. I tend to get intimidated in poli sci discussions pretty easily at the start of classes, so we'll see.

Yeah, that makes sense, and I'm not saying if someone seemed "cool" but was clearly a bad teacher I'd still like them - I was more just trying to say that just because I have this "type" that I'm describing doesn't mean that if a prof doesn't fit it, I dismiss them. Although a fair amount of the "type" really is wrapped up in the cynical/amusing bit, I suspect. I'm sounding like an idiot now, I'm pretty sure. I'm going to go get my writing quota in and then go to bed, lol.