w t f ?23 February 2005
back to school: week 7
Welcome to number seven in the series, "Get My Ass Outta’ This Class!"
Read this with the theme to Jaws washing through the back of your minds—duhduh, duh-duh, duhduh-duhduh-duhduh…
Just when you think it is safe to go back in the water (or start to) a huge tsunami of a wave, followed by a clamping of enormous jaws come sinking down into your fool head… Oh yes, it’s all bitchitude this week!
Bitchitude: WTF? The FreakofaShrink Psych Professor has lost her bloody marbles! When a professor says “we aren’t going to focus on such and such, so I’m not going to address it, because it won’t be on an exam…” Don’t you think you are free to think it’s unnecessary to study those areas?
Me too! But the wiseass side of my butt knew better, and I’m thankful I knew the answers, regardless--to not only the one question, but four addressing said area, that she insisted would not be included! I’m thinking I did great on this exam (previous knowledge application—ya know ;) but she probably screwed a majority of the class out of a better grade with those questions! We’ll see on Thursday!
To top it off, she promised/guaranteed us a selection of essay questions from which to glean extra credit on a point, per point made in addressing the answer basis, and claims she changed her mind at the last minute, and we can use it for a take home assignment tomorrow—WTF, again, I say!!!
Speaking of extra credit—her semester idea of those EC points come in the form of reading a 286 page book, only to write a single page reaction. Ummm, how bout a pamphlet regarding the matter, and hell I’d write two pages in reaction??? I’ve yet between work and school to finish over 1200 pages in various formats at the moment, the last thing I needed was to spend time on an additional 286 for a few measly points, to write a single page—sheesh!
At least I don’t feel like it’s something personal this time—she has chilled out and even been a touch cordial lately (I said a touch—I got a hello and an almost identifiable smile, elsewhere on campus last week)
Anyways, if that didn’t make your ears bleed, I think it’s just flat-the-fuck wrong, and the equivalent to a setup for failure, (note: not necessarily for me, but for a majority of the class, from all appearances. Hopefully, she is kind enough to return our scores tomorrow, and we’ll all have a better idea… but for now, I can only wonder wtf makes her tick and try to stay a step ahead of her bullshit antics.
Aloha (for now!)
Update: (Un)expected 02/24 inclusion: She, yes, she--now knows that the so not stereotypical slacker in the back row created the high mark on Exam #1's bell curve today, and she even included a "Wow" with the grade... of course, nobody appreciated the meager 20 minutes to answer 5 essay questions today (nope, she got us again--no take home EC!) but at least I feel better knowing it's just not me...whew!
I'm so ungrateful, I know--but I''m still not enjoying this class as much as I could be...phbbbbt anyways ;)
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scrawled by BTude a.k.a. GlassHoppah @ Wednesday, February 23, 2005
4 bitches:
@ 24 February, 2005 17:37,
Web Diva eloquently stated...
Typical psych if you ask me. That's why I have absolutely NO time for them. If you ever had any question as to their TRUE motives check this out: Citizens Commission on Human Rights
@ 25 February, 2005 01:35,
Bud eloquently stated...
It's been a LONG time since I taught on that level but it sounds to me like she's unprepared and changes her mind to cover it. She's also disorganized. I also suspect that she throws some of this shit at you in half-assed ways just so she can say she covered it. Is she up for promotion? If so, she needs to try to say how much she covered. College faculty politics is brutal, that much I remember. See if you can get a line on the profs before you sign up for courses and avoid this bitch and all those like her.
@ 26 February, 2005 10:16,
BTude a.k.a. GlassHoppah eloquently stated...
DB c'mere so I just laugh :P
Web Dev- That's a greta site-- will definitely be going back to it for info in a great many areas--thanks!
Bud--if I knew then, what I know now... lol Actually, I don't really know anyone at the time who could give me that info. I've got new 'school firends" though, who are filtering plenty of insider perspectives on the mass of professors, so that will help next semester. No idea if she's up for promotion, but she's definitely a power-tripper--that's all that's obviously to the nekkid eye, the rest is pretty covert crap.
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@ 23 February, 2005 22:55,
D Brooks eloquently stated...