Sunday, October 17, 2010

rant about a class and homework

I absolutely hate the College Survival class I'm taking. It's something the school pushes you to take because it's supposed to help you build skills to be a better student. I thought that sounded like a good thing and the class was only a month long, so I signed up. If I had known what it would be like, I never would have registered to take it.

First of all, the teacher is ridiculous. She forgets really important things, lost my homework once, and grades in a way that I don't understand. (Maybe I should have asked for the pass/no pass option instead of a letter grade?) She requires us to email most of our weekly assignments to her. That's how she lost my homework. I have to do the work over the weekend because I have so much other work to do during the week. I emailed the assignment on Sunday even though it wasn't due until Thursday morning. I got an email from her a week later when I sent the next assignment telling me that it wasn't too late to submit the homework from the week before. I emailed back reminding her that I had sent that assignment and after a few emails, she admitted she had lost it and apologized. But when I went to class last Friday, she told me I was in danger of failing the class and showed me my grades. She had given me a 0 on the assignment she lost and never corrected it despite telling me she would! Also, she canceled class one Friday and then gave everyone a 0 for attendance for that day. What the hell is up with that? And why are we being graded for attendance anyway? She is the only teacher I know of that actually grades so that you are punished if you miss a class. There are so few points anyway that missing one day will lower your grade an entire letter! It's unfair! I was pissed, but the silver lining was the class would be over on the 22nd. Well, last Friday she informs the class that we have 2 assignments that are due after class ends. What the fuck? One assignment is a "graduation plan" and not only do you have to search through the college catalog and plan every class for the next 2 years, you also have to make an appointment and have an adviser sign off on it. So I have to find time in the next 2 weeks (with finals coming up) to meet with an adviser. The second assignment is some paper she wants us to write, but she hasn't given us any info about it yet. The whole situation makes me want to scream.

And what have I learned from this class? Nothing I couldn't find on the school's website. I just don't see the point.

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