Tuesday, June 08, 2004
quick update
one class down, one more to go.
i hate my classes this semester. they were both pains in my butt. i especially hated them cuz they were undergraduate underclassmen classes. basically freshman classes and the teachers treated us like we were straight out of high school and didn't know jack. and these are night classes where if you looked around, most people were already working and knew more than what the teachers gave us credit for. most people had already taken many classes prior to that class, even if they didn't earn a degree yet. they gave us stupid assignments that sometimes had no relevance to the class at all. for example, the class i recently finished was a speech class. in speaking to other speech class students with other instructors, their grade was based upon performance on 3-4 speeches. what were my requirements? 3 speeches, a portfolio that included all kinds of in-class freewrites (remember those from high school?), informal essays, our 1 formal paper, class notes, handouts. our t.a. also had us do these irrelevant critical thinking assignments that had nothing to do with speech. i think it was for her requirements to get paid for being a t.a. and then we find out that the teaching assistant isn't really grading the portfolio and just wants to make sure we kept everything from the class. it's for "our organization," she says. crap, like we can't manage our own materials? like i said, they treated us like we're in high school. then we also found out that these writing assignments do not directly contribute to our final grade, nor do the speeches. you know what our final grade is based upon? we had to write a self-evaluation as to what grade we think we deserve. cool and all cuz i'm giving myself an A. i wrote a 2-page justification as to why i deserved it. she says you get the grade you give yourself if she agrees with you. if she doesn't, you receive a phone call and you have to discuss it with her. what the hell is this bullcrap? have you ever heard of such a thing? my classmate goes, "and this is the final insult to this idiot class."
guess that was a longer update than i initially meant it to be. but anyway, one more final on wednesday. wish me luck!
i hate my classes this semester. they were both pains in my butt. i especially hated them cuz they were undergraduate underclassmen classes. basically freshman classes and the teachers treated us like we were straight out of high school and didn't know jack. and these are night classes where if you looked around, most people were already working and knew more than what the teachers gave us credit for. most people had already taken many classes prior to that class, even if they didn't earn a degree yet. they gave us stupid assignments that sometimes had no relevance to the class at all. for example, the class i recently finished was a speech class. in speaking to other speech class students with other instructors, their grade was based upon performance on 3-4 speeches. what were my requirements? 3 speeches, a portfolio that included all kinds of in-class freewrites (remember those from high school?), informal essays, our 1 formal paper, class notes, handouts. our t.a. also had us do these irrelevant critical thinking assignments that had nothing to do with speech. i think it was for her requirements to get paid for being a t.a. and then we find out that the teaching assistant isn't really grading the portfolio and just wants to make sure we kept everything from the class. it's for "our organization," she says. crap, like we can't manage our own materials? like i said, they treated us like we're in high school. then we also found out that these writing assignments do not directly contribute to our final grade, nor do the speeches. you know what our final grade is based upon? we had to write a self-evaluation as to what grade we think we deserve. cool and all cuz i'm giving myself an A. i wrote a 2-page justification as to why i deserved it. she says you get the grade you give yourself if she agrees with you. if she doesn't, you receive a phone call and you have to discuss it with her. what the hell is this bullcrap? have you ever heard of such a thing? my classmate goes, "and this is the final insult to this idiot class."
guess that was a longer update than i initially meant it to be. but anyway, one more final on wednesday. wish me luck!
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nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
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~ Abraham Lincoln
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