school.
Mostly feels good to be back in school, and yet I'm finding myself frustrated.
We need more training programs, and less navel-gazing academia.
One of my classes yesterday consisted primarily of watching an instructional video. I get that. And having a worksheet of questions about the video was slightly annoying, but not as annoying as
- having to go over all the questions together before watching the video
and
- having to go over all the questions and their answers after watching the video
It was more hand-holding about a frickin' worksheet than we got in middle school. Argh!
I got jaded really, really quickly during my BA. My last year of high school, I had a couple of really great teachers, and did fairly high level work. I had only a few instructors that held me to that standard while I was an undergrad. This was depressing. At least those instructors, though, really made us work. There was no "down time" in any of Donna's classes. There was no busy-work. There was a ridiculous amount of information, three hours each week in which to go over it, and many more hours than that spent in attempting to read and digest really dense material. It was exhausting, sure, but it was awesome!
This is not going to be that. This is going to be much simpler work, in some ways. Biggest challenge will be in making myself give it enough effort to do it well, rather than brushing it off because I don't find it worth my time. I'm frustrated at the amount of wasted time even in these two days, but I really want to do this well, to build good connections here, and to come away well qualified to do some really neat stuff.
Anyway. Rambling.
Today: purchase textbooks, go to Target, be home from 4-7 during which time the cable/internet people are going to come give me connection to the outside world. yayz!
We need more training programs, and less navel-gazing academia.
One of my classes yesterday consisted primarily of watching an instructional video. I get that. And having a worksheet of questions about the video was slightly annoying, but not as annoying as
- having to go over all the questions together before watching the video
and
- having to go over all the questions and their answers after watching the video
It was more hand-holding about a frickin' worksheet than we got in middle school. Argh!
I got jaded really, really quickly during my BA. My last year of high school, I had a couple of really great teachers, and did fairly high level work. I had only a few instructors that held me to that standard while I was an undergrad. This was depressing. At least those instructors, though, really made us work. There was no "down time" in any of Donna's classes. There was no busy-work. There was a ridiculous amount of information, three hours each week in which to go over it, and many more hours than that spent in attempting to read and digest really dense material. It was exhausting, sure, but it was awesome!
This is not going to be that. This is going to be much simpler work, in some ways. Biggest challenge will be in making myself give it enough effort to do it well, rather than brushing it off because I don't find it worth my time. I'm frustrated at the amount of wasted time even in these two days, but I really want to do this well, to build good connections here, and to come away well qualified to do some really neat stuff.
Anyway. Rambling.
Today: purchase textbooks, go to Target, be home from 4-7 during which time the cable/internet people are going to come give me connection to the outside world. yayz!