Don't you college students just LOVE busting your hump for classes that wont pay off?

[scorpionldr]

I swear, this semester is easily the hardest I've had in a good year. I took what was supposed to be for my last semester to be an "easy schedule".

I have a human sexuality teacher that doesn't wanna give study guides to his own exams, a nutrition teacher that loves her course material to the point of practically shoving the entirety of chapters into condensed 10 page reviews for a simple fifty question test, and a piano tuning teacher that prides himself on getting us to learn about key motion when we've barely gotten used to the work of tuning temperaments.

Anyone else with a wondrous college schedule that makes you wanna beat your head against the wall when you get home?

[mike_v_s]

Originally Posted by scorpionldr

I swear, this semester is easily the hardest I've had in a good year. I took what was supposed to be for my last semester to be an "easy schedule".

I have a human sexuality teacher that doesn't wanna give study guides to his own exams, a nutrition teacher that loves her course material to the point of practically shoving the entirety of chapters into condensed 10 page reviews for a simple fifty question test, and a piano tuning teacher that prides himself on getting us to learn about key motion when we've barely gotten used to the work of tuning temperaments.

Anyone else with a wondrous college schedule that makes you wanna beat your head against the wall when you get home?

While i can sympathize with the situation, are you seriously complaining that study guides aren't being provided?

Mike

[jade]

Been there, done that and will be doing it again next semester.

The only part that saves me is knowing all my fellow students are in the same boat as me, so we're all screwed. Since the average is usually set at a B, it doesn't matter in the end.

I've had semesters of 15 hours of lecture and 13 hours of labs a week. Not to mention that the labs have their own set of write ups and finals. It's brutal, I hear ya.

College is an adventure, no one said it would be easy or everyone would be doing it!

[bassybill]

Originally Posted by scorpionldr

... a human sexuality teacher ... a nutrition teacher .... a piano tuning teacher ...

So, you have to calculate how many calories you burn making out on the piano, and then you get to retune it afterwards?

[fitbass3p]

I had that happen a couple times when I was getting my Master's. I'm a mathematician, so a lot of the graduate coursework was completely abstract, without any real practical application outside of perpetuating and defining itself.

In some courses, it was really easy to see that the professors were caught in a cycle of making the assignments and material significantly harder then they "needed" to be, in order to justify running the courses and keeping themselves employed. Their own opinion of themselves and the "importance" of whatever completely new idea they were peddling wouldn't let them cut to the point.

Oh well, I made it through.

[scorpionldr]

Originally Posted by mike_v_s

While i can sympathize with the situation, are you seriously complaining that study guides aren't being provided?

Mike

uh, buddy, when i listen to an old man discuss his glory days of back when he was in high school and had his first orgasm in a human sexuality class, I expect more than a highlight of a couple pages out of a book that are gonna form a meticulous stupid hundred question test that has nothing to do with what was discussed.

[scorpionldr]

Originally Posted by bassybill

So, you have to calculate how many calories you burn making out on the piano, and then you get to retune it afterwards?

nah, more like take a sledgehammer to it, drag it up the stairs, put it together again, and see if you dropped a few pounds.

[jonathan_matos5]

Originally Posted by mike_v_s

While i can sympathize with the situation, are you seriously complaining that study guides aren't being provided?

Mike

no joke. i had teachers neglect to tell me what chapters the test will cover before or deliberately not put test dates on the syllabus.

[scorpionldr]

Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5

no joke. i had teachers neglect to tell me what chapters the test will cover before or deliberately not put test dates on the syllabus.

it was a test to see if you'd grab him by the throat and hoist him above your head.

[PSPookie]

Originally Posted by jade

Since the average is usually set at a B, it doesn't matter in the end.

Wow! Your collegiate experience is significantly different from mine.

I went to a school that proudly boasted that 2/3 of all sudents would not gradute. The class average was never as high as a B and the "weed out" classes continued until graduation.

Try taking those same classes with a professor that barely speaks english and writes notes on the white board with one hand while erasing notes with the other.

[wilser]

hey, physics 303 (actually the 5th physics course on my old curriculum) has been very useful.

calculus was a big waste of time and brain cells (can you say 3 days straight, I'm talking 3x24hrs, studying for a final?)

[mike_v_s]

Originally Posted by scorpionldr

uh, buddy, when i listen to an old man discuss his glory days of back when he was in high school and had his first orgasm in a human sexuality class, I expect more than a highlight of a couple pages out of a book that are gonna form a meticulous stupid hundred question test that has nothing to do with what was discussed.

Simple fix: read the supplied material and ignore the old man. Sorry, but I don't think a college student should get any sympathy because he wasn't provided a study guide for an exam. Your age isn't listed, so I assume your a first year student? Get used to it. Many professors like to hear themselves talk. Many times it will just be their ruminations about conflict in general when you will be required to know specific dates and troop movements in the Pacific Theater of WW2. It sucks the first time it happens, but eventually you suck it up and take responsibility for your own knowledge.

Mike

[scorpionldr]

funny, all the years I've been in school (as I said this is the LAST semester of my career), however I've never had a teacher who went outside the reading materials. There's a ton of stuff, man. It's not as simple as your basic diagram on how to have a "good time".

[Way Off Bass]

college sucks. unless you know what you want to do, drop out. when you do learn what you want to do with your life, it will be a rewarding experience

[tasty sweeps]

i've been to a lot of college courses at a lot of colleges...

not for me.

i spend time at the library, out and about, on the net, wherever, gathering information and experience on things i want to learn. i don't want to learn someone else's ways, i want my own. that's not saying i won't listen to reason and follow certain standards for certain things, but this whole notion of schools having you repeat things that were repeated to them is just ridiculous. when will they start teaching people how to learn and think for themselves?

[SuperDuck]

College costs a lot of money. On whose dime are you taking these "worthless" classes?

[Jared Lash]

Something that was really valuable to me when I was in college and which I relayed to my seniors when I taught high school was that it was important to research classes and professors before registration. I knew a number of guys and girls that wound up in your situation because they saw a class that looked fun/interesting/easy and wound up very disappointed. For some core classes there wasn't much I could do (Physical Chemistry with Biological Applications was brutal but it was also only taught by two professors, was a pre req) but otherwise I was happy with the classes I ended up in.

Sounds like you picked some bad classes. Bummer. Do what you can to get through.

[mike_v_s]

Originally Posted by scorpionldr

funny, all the years I've been in school (as I said this is the LAST semester of my career), however I've never had a teacher who went outside the reading materials. There's a ton of stuff, man. It's not as simple as your basic diagram on how to have a "good time".

You've never had another professor go outside the material? Jesus. No wonder you were expecting a study guide. I'm not going to say that all of my classes were monsters of comprehension, but I think I could count on one hand the number of times I was given a guide to what might be on an exam. Most of my stuff was "anything listed in the syllabus between the start of the semester and 5 minutes ago is game".

Mike

[scorpionldr]

Originally Posted by SuperDuck

College costs a lot of money. On whose dime are you taking these "worthless" classes?

who ever said anything about worthlessness? we're not denying that these classes have some value, it's simply that putting that aside, some of the teaching methods utilized are just not able to be considered as teaching. There's no reason after almost 6 years in college that in my last semester I should have to suffer because some teacher decides he doesn't wanna put effort into what he's doing.

[mike_v_s]

Originally Posted by scorpionldr

who ever said anything about worthlessness? we're not denying that these classes have some value, it's simply that putting that aside, some of the teaching methods utilized are just not able to be considered as teaching. There's no reason after almost 6 years in college that in my last semester I should have to suffer because some teacher decides he doesn't wanna put effort into what he's doing.

If the professor isn't putting the amount of effort you feel he should, maybe someone else needs to step up....

Mike