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On October 03 2008 11:15 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On October 03 2008 10:27 PsycHOTemplar wrote:
THE TEACHER, is complete shit! Here's a routine of the day, walk into the class room, sit down take 3 pages of notes from a power point. Bell rings go to next class.
That's basically every class in University. Get used to it. If you don't understand the material, ask for extra help outside class. Apart from that, there's nothing you can do about a bad teacher. I wish that were true lol Show nested quote +On October 03 2008 10:58 SIUnit wrote:
Fuck the curve. If they're curving on a standard curve, then A is 2 SD away, 2.5% of the entire fucking class (assuming they do what my university does, where C is the mean). Flat curves are fine, but either it's standard or it's no curve.
Also, read the textbook or something. What you described is basically about 90% of all university classes. You read the book, try to understand as much as possible before going to class, and hope the professor explains the part you don't know in lecture. If not, bother him to high heaven during his office hours. He said that there is no textbook. Note the following: Show nested quote +On October 03 2008 10:02 nAi.PrOtOsS wrote:
Since it's a new course this year, we don't have text books yet ... To all the people saying 'this is what university is like; get used to it' that's pretty irrelevant since this is not a college preparatory course.
I fail to see how saying that is irrelevant because the course is not meant to prepare you for college. Just because it's not meant a college preparatory course has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not it is like a college course or not. It could be a clown school seminar and still be structured like a college course.
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On October 03 2008 19:20 NoobsOfWrath wrote:Show nested quote +On October 03 2008 11:15 micronesia wrote:On October 03 2008 10:27 PsycHOTemplar wrote:
THE TEACHER, is complete shit! Here's a routine of the day, walk into the class room, sit down take 3 pages of notes from a power point. Bell rings go to next class.
That's basically every class in University. Get used to it. If you don't understand the material, ask for extra help outside class. Apart from that, there's nothing you can do about a bad teacher. I wish that were true lol On October 03 2008 10:58 SIUnit wrote:
Fuck the curve. If they're curving on a standard curve, then A is 2 SD away, 2.5% of the entire fucking class (assuming they do what my university does, where C is the mean). Flat curves are fine, but either it's standard or it's no curve.
Also, read the textbook or something. What you described is basically about 90% of all university classes. You read the book, try to understand as much as possible before going to class, and hope the professor explains the part you don't know in lecture. If not, bother him to high heaven during his office hours. He said that there is no textbook. Note the following: On October 03 2008 10:02 nAi.PrOtOsS wrote:
Since it's a new course this year, we don't have text books yet ... To all the people saying 'this is what university is like; get used to it' that's pretty irrelevant since this is not a college preparatory course. I fail to see how saying that is irrelevant because the course is not meant to prepare you for college. Just because it's not meant a college preparatory course has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not it is like a college course or not. It could be a clown school seminar and still be structured like a college course.
I appreciate you trying to clarify and get us on the same page..... but you should probably stop.
That didn't seem very convincing, so...
First of all your first sentence does not make sense.... I'm not saying this to nitpick but rather it took me a little while to actually understand what point you were trying to make.
Second, your claim seems to be that my claim that comments about 'getting used to it' are irrelevant, is in fact wrong, because there is not a connection between those comments, and the fact that this is not a college preparatory course. However, this seems to ignore the fact that the OP was about him having a bad high school teacher. The proper responses to this have to do with either explaining why he shouldn't complain about having a bad teacher IN HIGH SCHOOL, or sympathizing with him. Comments implying that he is somehow in the wrong because of something having to do with college are all but completely irrelevant.
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Yea I'm going to have to agree here, I'm in the class with nAi getting a 93% and I think that she is a bs teacher. The only reason I can get this high is because of previous knowledge from past sciences courses (that are not prerequisites). The majority of marks on tests are pure/half guesses or bs-ing your way through it making yourself seem knowledgable with big words.
Overall, the course itself is fairly interesting and has the potential to be great. Because of this teacher who has never taught the content before (and makes no attempt to learn it before coming to class that day), the course is the most dreaded 1 hour fifteen mins of the whole day.
/gg powerpoint > quiz > test
Would like to see some class discussion/taking up the rare questions from the textbook. Maybe if we skip class and read the textbook in the library we'll have better luck haha.
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ask the teacher which book she is teaching out of and borrow the book from the library and study it. If you must make photocopies. If you are lucky you can probably find the entire book online in pdf format
bother the teacher at lunch on how to do well on tests, ask how to study and point out that the tests don't represent the notes given in class.
try to change teachers if there is more than one teacher teaching the teaching
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This really does sound like the teacher from hell. Good luck taking your case to the VP, I hope you succeed! To be honest, university isn't as bad as people here make it out to be and it most definitely is nothing like your situation.
Profs usually do the powerpoint -> test thing but they actually test you on what's covered in class. Granted the material may be a ridiculous amount and they might ask detailed questions on that one fact you forgot to memorize, but it's still in the lectures  This is just from someone in science, I have no idea how things work in the arts/humanities departments.
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That sucks man. Complain your heart out to the powers that be.
And some Unis do have teachers like that unfortunately. It's a crapshoot. Make sure you make friends with a lot of people above you in the same major and ask them what professors to get. That's your best bet.
I've had at least 3 teachers like this one (who couldn't teach and random stuff was on their tests).
Although I don't sympathize with the spelling mistakes. There's TONS of teachers in Uni that burn you down in flames for that. Just be VERY careful.
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...Oh...so this blog ISN'T about a teacher with flatulence.
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I live in Vancouver, and in our highschool, we have "blocks". There are 8 in total, 4 each day. So my friend basically went 2 days without sleep to do his homework and in the end complained to the principal. School is tough dude, my social teacher gives pop TESTS that's worth 25 percent of my fuckin term. I'm about to kill him.
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