College Students Are Sharing Emails From Their Professors After This Guy Shared A Very Blunt Correspondence

"I focus on American politics — primarily parties, elections, and campaign finance," he told BuzzFeed News.

"I’d no idea he tweeted it, until it started trending," the professor said of his one-word correspondence being made public.

"I'm pretty short and terse in the emails that I send, particularly to people that know me, like Kade does," the professor said when asked if he typically responds to emails in that way.

"And I tell students, you know, I'm getting fifty-hundred emails a day, so you're going to get pretty short replies, and that's just how it is," he said.

"It has nothing to do with, you know, how much you value the student or care about them. You just send off the critical information, and that's about it."

When asked if he called his students punks often, he responded, "Yeah, I call them punks." He clarified that it is not a term he uses with every student. "Only the ones that I know, and only the ones that I know would not take offense to it," he said.

He said that there was no actual animosity involved in the exchange. "It's just two people who like to mess with each other and for whatever reason, that just exploded out on Twitter," the professor said of the tweets.

The student said that he isn't sure how well he did, grade-wise, on the final.

"I'll be honest with you, I haven't even checked yet — I'm definitely thinking I got around an A or a B on it," Walker said.

Is he worried his viral tweet has impacted his grade? "No," he said, noting that his professor is a "lighthearted guy."