First year library school doldrums
I'm in my first year of grad school, slowly working my way towards a Masters in Library Science. So far it's been trying, if only because I am so eternally bored. I don't feel challenged by anything I've been presented with so far.
Now I'm taking a class called "Information Structure" taught by an older German gentleman professor. To say that his teaching method is inaccessible would be generous. While his lecture is taken directly from his notes, which he gives each student at the beginning of the semester, they are organized in a manner which completely escapes me. How this man teaches structure of information, I'll never know.
The thing that kills me is that all I could think of during class was that I didn't know how we would be tested over this material. Yeah, it's such a lame sort of stance to take, learning only to pass a test. I normally don't do that, but that's all that seems to matter in our educational system.
I fear I'm paying far too much for far too little.
Now I'm taking a class called "Information Structure" taught by an older German gentleman professor. To say that his teaching method is inaccessible would be generous. While his lecture is taken directly from his notes, which he gives each student at the beginning of the semester, they are organized in a manner which completely escapes me. How this man teaches structure of information, I'll never know.
The thing that kills me is that all I could think of during class was that I didn't know how we would be tested over this material. Yeah, it's such a lame sort of stance to take, learning only to pass a test. I normally don't do that, but that's all that seems to matter in our educational system.
I fear I'm paying far too much for far too little.