9th
What a terrible fucking system.
When you are a professor, you have two parts to your job: your research and teaching your students. Unfortunately for many students, professors are often hired for their research and then the teaching is an afterthought. Seeing as these are some of our brightest minds, teaching something so menial as mechanical vibrations should be no task for these scholars right?
You couldn’t be more wrong. Just because you’re fucking brilliant doesn’t mean you can express and verbalize you knowledge to somebody with no understanding of the subject. During my 2 and a halfish years at our prestegious university I’ve had many profs and TAs who couldn’t teach worth shit. For some, it was due to a language barrier (wtf is arfa anyways?, seriously though, Yoda is the man.) but some just can’t fucking teach. (nothing against people with accents, but some people you just can’t understand and probably shouldn’t choose a career based on public speaking… just sayin’)
Maybe its just me and I’m a terrible student and couldn’t learn if I tried, but when you go to class for an hour and 35 minutes (classes are supposed to be an hour and 20 mins) to frantically take notes while johhny combover scribbles some random shit on the board, barely explaining it while blocking what he’s writing with his body seems like no way to learn. This fucking guy, we’ll call him Esmerelda, just starts spewing equations all over the 3 boards for the full duration of lecture and then some, switching places and erasing shit so often that you have no idea what you’re taking notes on by the end of class. He has yet to end a lecture on time, hell the only way he ends close to on time is when we all leave while he’s talking.
There is no way anybody can take notes for an hour and a half and still have any concentration left for other lectures during the day let alone get through this one lecture. Our school is a laptop university. That means that every student has a fucking laptop (again, I’m oozing with glorious tidbits of info) and that our classes are supposed to utilize said laptop. Every prof and TA has a tablet style laptop and can write their notes directly onto the projector screen and save it in a nice pdf file to distribute to us, leaving us free to take notes on what we think is pertinent to the class, while listening to LETURE, then download the full notes at our leisure. Instead, Esmerelda, whom I’m going back to calling johhn combover from now on, insists that we write till our goddamn arms fall off without actually teaching us anything, if he prepared the lectures on his computer beforehand, we could spend our time learning instead of writing!
Anyways, moral of the story, Johnny Combover - learn to teach, Our Glorious University - do auditions or something for the job, we need more profs who can teach.
I know that’s not really a moral, bite me. I’m fucking done, and no I didn’t preview or proofread, I’m a fucking engineer, that’s the computer’s job.
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