Wed 10 Jan 2007
this is starting to feel a lot like school
Posted by Alli under School
Remember how I wrote that I loved Christmas Break? I really remember loving Christmas Break.
This was my day. Class, nine till noon. Work, one till three thirty. Class, six thirty till nine thirty.
This is what I felt like, minus a few hours during the afternoon, all day:
*I don’t have any particular reason to be frazzled. I mean, its only school and I’m used to school. And its only work, and I’m used to work. But there’s something going on…this total aversion to actually paying attention in my courses. My prof this morning, in rare books (I’d like to say he has a penchant for drinking, but I am not sure that is slander or libel or whatever or not, so I’m not going to), lectured for almost two hours on our reading list. Which is exactly as it sounds. A list of books. Now, I can read. I can read this list. Or, more likely, I can bury this list somewhere with all my other papers because there is no way I am even doing the required reading let alone the reading that is not required.
My second class was worse. First, the prof lied to us. He told us we’d be there for two hours. We weren’t. We were there for three hours. On the first class. And we talk about things like data constructions. What the hell? Its the first day! I actually wished that I was back listening to the stupid reading list lecture because, then, at least when I was zoning out, I knew I wasn’t missing anything.Things I am grateful for today: lap tops and msn. and wireless networks.
*Proviso: That’s obviously not me. I’m a brunette.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Why do profs feel the need to go over the freakin reading list? Hand it out, maybe tell me what the important books/journals are, end of story. Also: no need to read the syllabus word for word. I, too, can read. It’s my fault if I don’t pay enough attention to the syllabus to figure out when my assignments are due. Also: please, for the love of God, do NOT make us sign an attendance sheet in grad school. Also: I get that you want to learn our names, but why is it that out of the 2 classes I’ve had so far, we had to make name signs with thin cardboard and a marker? Part of what is great about being a quiet student is that the professors learn my name last. Why fix it if it ain’t broke?
January 11th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
The irony of me typing this is that I’m sitting here in a first day class, and we’re already learning. But I’ve been where you are. Luckily this term they aren’t doing that to me. We get an intro to the topic, the syllabus, an explanation of assignments. Then we leave.
I hope today is going better!