Every year the same thing happens to me. I get down that all the required classes are lame, and get my hopes up for the electives that sound special.
Then it turns out the thing that should be a small class is in an auditorium so big there’s TV’s for the back row to see (never aimed exactly right, or in a wide-angle mode that’s worse than trying to look at the stage).
And then there is no prof, but only green TA’s.
It’s not supposed to be like this.
I’m in high school, not college, but the same rule applies. I mean, I live in the boonies so ALL my classes are small, but still. I had to quit chorus after 7 years of it (and I still love singing), because it had reached a point where there were so many people in the group that we were no longer at optimal performance level. All the freshmen girls whose voices weren’t mature yet, decided they must be First Sopranos and hit notes to shatter glass, when in actuality they suck so hard that they’re only shattering eardrums. So the director must spend so much time taming THEM that the rest of us are doing more sitting and listening to the First Sopranos than we are singing. Pisses me right the hell off.
I have an Oral Interpretation instructor who spends so much time speaking herself that none of the students get any time to interpret anything orally.
OH yeah? My husband decided to take a “light” semester this time. Differential Equations and Physics I. He bought a 200 dollar calculator required for the class with the last of the money we had. we couldn’t afford the books so I copied hundreds of pages of the books required. Everything was left in a black binder. Needless to say, he accidentally left it on the car roof. it fell off when driving. Bythe ie we went back for it, it was gone. Now he is going to have to drop the classes because he has no calcuator, no books, his project and take home test are gone as well. Now those are classes that suck. They don’t give him any chance to make up either. I love the college system!
Wow, tubagirl, that sucks.
I LOVE college. My teachers rock, and I’m kickin’ butt. The kids all think I’m a dork, but that’s cool. I don’t have the troubles that the OP posted, though. My university is very small, and none of my classes have more than 25 students. Saam, maybe you should consider a transfer?