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second college rant; math >=(
Topic Started: Dec 9 2009, 11:35 AM (217 Views)
MasterofBalance
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Behold! my second college rant!

First off let me put this in perspective: i was placed in a non-college level math class because my math score on the ACT sucked and the placement test didn't help. Around the begining of the semester, i was very discouraged with this realization because not only was the class repedative and annoying, i couldn't get out of it and it did not count for my graduation requirements. Eventually, i basically adopted the mentality of "well, there's nothing i can do, so i might as well stay in the class, pass it, and never have to deal with it again." BUt let me tell you dear friends and readers, this is easier said than done.

The first thorn in my side begins with the class itself. while all of this stuff in general is quite easy, much of the time the teacher will say something like "solve this equation by means of elimination" now this would be fine and dandy, but what about those of us who never learned how to do that or whatever is being asked of us? Isn't the point of this class to re-learn past math experiences in order to make sure we are capable of handling the complex new stuff in college level classes? But no, this is more like the episode of The Fairly Oddparents when the main character's teacher went crazy (more so than usual) and pelted them with pop quizes for which there was no way in hell that they could be prepared for them. I bet anything that a good majority of my class has looked at thier daily notes and have said something along the lines of "thanks for teaching me how to do this...wait, you didn't do shit," to themselves.

now, a couple things that really brought my piss to a boil. one test i got back had a D or less score on it. i was fairly ok with this as by this time i had already received plenty of subpar grades. Hoever, on the multiple choice questions i lost 5 points. You'd think this is a bit trivial, but the thing is: we didn't lose that many points in previous tests for the same kinds of questions; one of them was even a question which we were given ON A PREVIOUS TEST! I mean, what the fuck? Some consistency please? This may seem to an on-looker like an OCD issue, but i'm sure plenty of you have had annoances with this. And this is acedemic inconsistency for christ sake!

The second thing that made me blow a gasket is as follows: we are required to have a portfolio (which after all this time is a major annoyance within itself) and we had to organize and turn them in twice this semester for credit. The first time i completely spaced about it for which i take full responsibility, but the second time was complete bullshit. I turned my portfolio in, picked it up the next day and looked inside at my earliest convinience. there were four catagories and up to five points given for each. i saw that i got 5/5 for tests and test corrections and i wasn't surprised because i took the tests and did the corrections, even for the bs test which required me to go to this math help place and get them to SIGN my corrections, as if i don't know how to fucking correct a test. I also wasn't surprised about the fact that i missed a point or two in homework because there was at least one assignment which i plain didn't do. But then i noticed the grade for the writing section. We have a very specific format for our writing assignments and we have recieved about 3-4 this semester. I had 2-3 of them in there. I got no points...WHAT THE FUCKING HELL?!?!? I did my fucking writing goddamn it! next i looked to see there were no points awarded for notes. I will grant my teacher a little slack here because i usually don't do the notes in class, but for a great many of them i did participate in the class activity. So i get nothing for at least participating? I know i don't have everything, but come on! i should at least get some credit! Oh, and an even better point about the writing assignment: she gave back the one writing assignement i was missing AFTER she told us that the portfolios were ready to be picked up...

This class is also hard tgo be in because the teacher is nice! But she does pull bullshit like this and is many times, when she is actually acted her part as a teacher, a mean little fucker. So in addition to these annoyances and spews of flat-out bullshit, i (and i'm sure i'm not the only one) have the dilema of whether to love or hate the teacher for what she does

I'm done for now, but i'm sure there'll be something else to rant about. Til next time.
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It does indeed seem much more bullshit than many of my classes... well, the two that I go to on a semi-regular basis. (Don't correct me here, when I do miss it's because something along the lines of "When I stand up to get out of bed, I either fall over, then crawl back into bed, or I get up I get a wave of nausea, and crawl back in between the sheets.")

The multiple choice questions thing is the only point in which I say "Well, maybe..." but it's not really worth going into because it goes through a whole bunch of "Maybe it was an easier test or something?". Good news is that at least you'll pass and never have to do this bullshit again (or so I sincerely hope). The bad news? You've had a semester of nothing but shit.

Hmm... ya know that teacher reminds me a lot of my teacher for Statistics last year... Great person, terrible teacher.
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