Detesting Biology
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torquillI did not need any assistance.
Oh, look, we suddenly have to research and write an introduction to a paper I wasn't aware we were responsible for? And we have two days? One of which is the day of my first chemistry test? Oh, please, madame, fuck me a little harder.
You wanted an experiment description and a hypothesis. You got the history and current theory. Take what I fucking give you and be happy with the fact that I sacrificed an hour of very valuable sleep to give you that much.
And oh, look, the first midterm is marked on the lab schedule -- not the syllabus, of course not -- as February 24. What have you mentioned of it? Nothing, until you gave us a study guide today and shifted the date to March first... don't expect me to fall at your feet in gratitude for another weekend when the other teacher, the one whose class I thought I was actually taking and who sees me the other three days of the week, has silently omitted any reading guidelines without telling us. I discovered today that I am probably about ten chapters behind in the book, with a week and a half to catch up. Meanwhile, he's happily rolling along in lecture.
I will commit suicide by cactus before I take another split lecture/lab course in bio. I don't remember physics being this bad -- this is like taking two halves of two courses, with a whole shitload of necessary information falling into the crack between. Expectations? What? When one teacher says "writeup", is that for his class or hers, and if it's for the one I'm in, why didn't I hear about it before? Oh, the other teacher was supposed to mention it a week ago? Fuck you both.
I swear to god, I'm going to collect all of these teachers and do a course myself, one titled "Reasonable Expectations: Setting and Meeting Them". Then watch them all fail.
Oh, look, we suddenly have to research and write an introduction to a paper I wasn't aware we were responsible for? And we have two days? One of which is the day of my first chemistry test? Oh, please, madame, fuck me a little harder.
You wanted an experiment description and a hypothesis. You got the history and current theory. Take what I fucking give you and be happy with the fact that I sacrificed an hour of very valuable sleep to give you that much.
And oh, look, the first midterm is marked on the lab schedule -- not the syllabus, of course not -- as February 24. What have you mentioned of it? Nothing, until you gave us a study guide today and shifted the date to March first... don't expect me to fall at your feet in gratitude for another weekend when the other teacher, the one whose class I thought I was actually taking and who sees me the other three days of the week, has silently omitted any reading guidelines without telling us. I discovered today that I am probably about ten chapters behind in the book, with a week and a half to catch up. Meanwhile, he's happily rolling along in lecture.
I will commit suicide by cactus before I take another split lecture/lab course in bio. I don't remember physics being this bad -- this is like taking two halves of two courses, with a whole shitload of necessary information falling into the crack between. Expectations? What? When one teacher says "writeup", is that for his class or hers, and if it's for the one I'm in, why didn't I hear about it before? Oh, the other teacher was supposed to mention it a week ago? Fuck you both.
I swear to god, I'm going to collect all of these teachers and do a course myself, one titled "Reasonable Expectations: Setting and Meeting Them". Then watch them all fail.
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Date: 2005-02-17 19:40 (UTC)If it didn't, I'd be starting each class with a request for confirmation for each bombshell dropped in the previous class. "Bob told us that you were supposed to tell us last month about the paper due last week. What's up with that?". If it took up all of class, then that wouldn't be my problem, that'd be their problem for failing to do their jobs.
But there's a reason I never graduated from college, I guess.