[RL] RANT
OK, so anyone who doesn't want to read the ranting of an unhappy university student, please don't read...
So all the marks are in for last term and... why do I have C's in every class but one?
And its Anthropology, the FUN course that pisses me off the most. The test was crap - if you are going to tell the students that only to know certain things, and they don't have to know others, then test on the damn stuff you say you will test on! So when the students study the way she repeatedly says she will test, we basically almost fail. In a class of over 400, 31% of the class outright failed. The average was 56. This is wrong, I tell you.
And then my essay - which I took 3 days to write - a C? How?? I put sweat into it. The only thing I can say about it is that I really wasn't interested in the topic (prostitution in Papua New Guinea? No thanks) and I didn't read the entire book - only the chapter on my topic. But that wasn't where I lost the most marks - I lost marks for formatting. I read the damn university website on formatting - I had to, i come from a country where we don't really reference. i know what I'm supposed to do. I never heard of those stuff the T.A corrected for.
GAH. Then we get to Zoology... and frankly this makes me cry. I spend hours agonizing over my lab reports. Yet again C's and D's. Why? Because they never told us what they wanted. And the exam was ridiculous. And I studied days for that - I can't even remember how bad that was.
And I wont even get into Bio. But this one I'm not so mad at because it is partially my fault, and I go to lab unprepared.
But it's not just me doing badly. It's everyone. Everyone is complaining. Doesn't that say something about the course? I don't know - maybe we are all just idiots fooling ourselves about how much we know. But the thing is:
I know. I know the material. I just cant seem to make that reflect in my work right now GAH.
SO that means - serious study. I'm only devoting a max of 4 hours per day to fandom and random spamming. And I'm gonna post weekly progress here, so i can keep track of how well I do.
They wont beat me. (Cuz i need a B for my scholarship.)
I'll win in the end.
So all the marks are in for last term and... why do I have C's in every class but one?
And its Anthropology, the FUN course that pisses me off the most. The test was crap - if you are going to tell the students that only to know certain things, and they don't have to know others, then test on the damn stuff you say you will test on! So when the students study the way she repeatedly says she will test, we basically almost fail. In a class of over 400, 31% of the class outright failed. The average was 56. This is wrong, I tell you.
And then my essay - which I took 3 days to write - a C? How?? I put sweat into it. The only thing I can say about it is that I really wasn't interested in the topic (prostitution in Papua New Guinea? No thanks) and I didn't read the entire book - only the chapter on my topic. But that wasn't where I lost the most marks - I lost marks for formatting. I read the damn university website on formatting - I had to, i come from a country where we don't really reference. i know what I'm supposed to do. I never heard of those stuff the T.A corrected for.
GAH. Then we get to Zoology... and frankly this makes me cry. I spend hours agonizing over my lab reports. Yet again C's and D's. Why? Because they never told us what they wanted. And the exam was ridiculous. And I studied days for that - I can't even remember how bad that was.
And I wont even get into Bio. But this one I'm not so mad at because it is partially my fault, and I go to lab unprepared.
But it's not just me doing badly. It's everyone. Everyone is complaining. Doesn't that say something about the course? I don't know - maybe we are all just idiots fooling ourselves about how much we know. But the thing is:
I know. I know the material. I just cant seem to make that reflect in my work right now GAH.
SO that means - serious study. I'm only devoting a max of 4 hours per day to fandom and random spamming. And I'm gonna post weekly progress here, so i can keep track of how well I do.
They wont beat me. (Cuz i need a B for my scholarship.)
I'll win in the end.