Like many college students, University of Nebraska graduate student Kasey Kerber signed up for a class he later wished he'd avoided.

The class was at night, and the professor droned on endlessly. He frequently brought his child to class.

"The only way to describe it is as sheer boredom," Kerber said. "You go to it and you wonder why you wasted 50 minutes of your life. You just didn't learn a whole lot."

One night, after a particularly tedious class, Kerber said to himself, "I wish there was some way I might have known."

Wanting other students to avoid the same fate, Kerber toyed with the idea of making a Web site for students to evaluate their professors.

"Originally, we were thinking of making some type of bulletin board site," he said.

However, some of Kerber's high school friends convinced him to make a Web site.

"It was my idea fostered by their grasp on technology, and all the pieces kind of fell together," Kerber said.

The result was MyProfessorSucks.com (www.myprofessorsucks.com), a Web site that allows college students across North America to post evaluations of their professors, good and bad.

To post an evaluation on the Web site, which has been active for more than a year, students can go the main page and click "Rate your Prof." The site's home page links to maps of the United States and Canada and then asks users to click on the state or province where their schools are located.

After choosing their schools, students can enter their professors' names and grade them on "coolness," "worth," and "ease." They then can choose from a number of descriptions, ranging from "shows a love of teaching" to "is one of the worst professors I've ever had!"

"I don't think it's a bible by any means," Kerber said. "It's a resource for students who maybe don't know which elective they want, what professor they want.

"It's a great way for students to figure out what other students think about their professor," he added.

Lee Wagner (freshman-business) shared these sentiments.

"I'd definitely use that," he said. "I think it would let you know what to expect, in terms of the work involved."

Other students, however, said there are better ways to find out about certain professors.

"I'd rather talk about those sorts of things with my friends and people I know," Ryan Greecher (sophomore-liberal arts) said.

"MyProfessorSucks.com is not the only Web site that offers students the opportunity to evaluate their professors. The Daily Jolt (www.psu.dailyjolt.com) also has a teacher assessment section to help students choose the right professors.

Kerber's Web site continues to expand. Kerber plans to hire campus representatives from the various schools on his Web site, including Penn State.

"It will kind of just build and build and build," he said.