I'm Depressed, Not a Good Start

[Merlin]

Did anyone get strange forum posts in any of their classes?

Wow, just wow. I didn't have any experiences like that at TESU or WGU.

My instructor at TESU was very professional and engaged with students on the forums. Since TESU requires people to post on the forums, most students did the minimum they could get away with. So most forum posts were terrible rehashes of what other people said, or just super shallow (for introductions, etc.) The posts could have been made by bots (and may have been for some people), but nobody posted anything like that intro you quoted. Even if it isn't that far off from the truth in some cases, that wasn't really an appropriate intro IMO.

At WGU, folks don't have to use the forums, so they do so because they genuinely want to engage with the teachers or other students. The WGU forum for each course is actually useful. One of the first things I would always do when starting on a new course would be to download the forum archive for that class and review the old posts to look for useful tips.