Jan 29, 2007 22:56
Here are some things I have noticed as of late:
1. Some of the students in my colloquim class are freshmen, but are listed as juniors on Testudo (when I got the class list in the mail, I looked them all up on Facebook). This leaves me wondering as to how they'd done it, I mean, even if they took like 20 credits last semester (which is highly improbable), they would still had to have come in with 40 credits. Maybe they were in an IB program, I really didn't look closely at what high school they attended. It just really creeps me out, seeing freshmen with so many course hours and wondering whether this is good or bad, where the world is going, and generally feeling old.
2. Most of the people I teach live in the same dorm (Denton). This is probably good but might polarize the class. Well, with only 20 people in the class and me teaching with another girl, so that I'm only effectively teaching 10 of them, this shouldn't be that much of a problem.
3. Chem lab is horrible. They have made it into a huge deal (its worth 2 credits, why??), and they have a site set up for it, and sequential readings, and we have to print out the labs on top of having some $60 textbook that is only going to come in at the end of this week. We also have podcasts, which don't help at all. I don't see how these course coordinators have gotten so out of touch with reality and truly believe that we students are going to spend a ridiculous amount of time and effort on a lab class. Sucks that this is the first semester they are offering it.
4. Also, I have no idea how I missed the url for the blackboard website for the class above. I must be retarded/blind, but I don't remember seeing it anywhere in the syllabus or an email.
5. E&M is not looking much better, with the textbook not really that helpful. The prof is a nice , laid-back guy, but just how laid-back is he going to be about grading? Also, the lab we have tomorrow looks pretty grim, hopefully the TA is better than last semester.
6. I keep overeating and stressing myself out, and this is probably not good for me. I just wish I'd found my niche, and I really despise the fact that I'll soon have to make a decision regardig my future career, and maybe I'm not ready to make it just yet. I don't really feel passionate towards anything. I used to want to be a doctor, but I don't think I'm driven enough for that, plus its just so much money! Being a scietist is also sort of boring, and maybe I'm not smart enough to be a biochemist (in a couple of years, I will read this and certainly laugh). Being a psychologist just seems like the easy way out. So yeah, I dunno what to do but I'll have to decide soon.