Week 14: Day 3
LAST DAY OF CLASSES COMPLETED!!!! WHAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!
I was so happy, that I told my prof "Thanks for the fun and interesting class. It was the last one forever!!"
and like EVERYONE, he responded "Oh, don't say that!"
and I said "Of my undergrad. Though I don't plan to come back for more. This one took me 10 years as it is!"
It makes me so freaking mad that academia only exists to perpetuate itself. Like I'm some second-class citizen because I'm stopping at the undergraduate level. Why the hell should I go into research? I don't like it, for one. And two, what, do a master's, then a doctorate, then beg for post-docs and then HOPE I get hired as a professor to do research and teach and then get more kids like me into the system? FUCK NO. It doesn't even happen that way for a lot of people. There are so many more students wanting in to master's programs than there are spots, there are more students who want doctorates than there are spots, there are more students who want post-docs than there are spots, and there are waaaaaay more students doing post-docs indefinitely than there are professor vacancies. But what does the university care? You naive little child bought into the system. They don't give a rat's ass if you have a PhD in whatever and are over-qualified for work in the real world, they just want to keep THEIR world alive. It fucking sickens me!!! I don't know if every department is like this, but I have a feeling it is, unless you did a professional degree (Engineering, Nursing, Teaching, etc), but even then, I can't be sure as I wasn't in any of those departments. I will shed no tears of sadness leaving this monolith behind! Only tears of joy that I made it out alive and that I'll be making a contribution to REAL society instead of fake society, the world of academia.
As for the rest of my day, I met up with a classmate to go over material for our Human Growth and Development final exam on Wednesday. She was so horribly unprepared though...hadn't done ANY of the study questions since the midterm, really?? I mean, I slacked off on that too, up until last week because I wanted to have material to discuss with people. You would think making a study date with someone would at least prompt you to pull something out of your ass the night before? She asked me on Wednesday to meet up today...so she had at least 2 days to work on it! GAH! Eventually I was getting so mad that she was wasting my time, I told her "Look I need to leave, as I have two finals which happen before this one." I was holding back from saying "Because you're of no use to me anyway, as you don't have anything to contribute, you useless twat!" Even worse, she's not a Kinesiology major, and hasn't even taken an introductory Physiology class. So the questions she was asking me were too remedial for me to tolerate. She actually asked me what the world "unrelated" meant. REALLY?!!?!! Seriously had to refrain from hitting her!!
Studying Anatomy tonight and tomorrow on my own. Sunday, meeting with my tutor for Anatomy and then heading up to campus to meet with some classmates to discuss our Neurological Disorders final (these are the two exams I have on Tuesday). Thank goodness my other classmates I've worked with before and I know won't be wasting my time. I might learn something! ;)
(I realize this post was ranty, but I'm much happier than the rants would make it seem!) :)
I was so happy, that I told my prof "Thanks for the fun and interesting class. It was the last one forever!!"
and like EVERYONE, he responded "Oh, don't say that!"
and I said "Of my undergrad. Though I don't plan to come back for more. This one took me 10 years as it is!"
It makes me so freaking mad that academia only exists to perpetuate itself. Like I'm some second-class citizen because I'm stopping at the undergraduate level. Why the hell should I go into research? I don't like it, for one. And two, what, do a master's, then a doctorate, then beg for post-docs and then HOPE I get hired as a professor to do research and teach and then get more kids like me into the system? FUCK NO. It doesn't even happen that way for a lot of people. There are so many more students wanting in to master's programs than there are spots, there are more students who want doctorates than there are spots, there are more students who want post-docs than there are spots, and there are waaaaaay more students doing post-docs indefinitely than there are professor vacancies. But what does the university care? You naive little child bought into the system. They don't give a rat's ass if you have a PhD in whatever and are over-qualified for work in the real world, they just want to keep THEIR world alive. It fucking sickens me!!! I don't know if every department is like this, but I have a feeling it is, unless you did a professional degree (Engineering, Nursing, Teaching, etc), but even then, I can't be sure as I wasn't in any of those departments. I will shed no tears of sadness leaving this monolith behind! Only tears of joy that I made it out alive and that I'll be making a contribution to REAL society instead of fake society, the world of academia.
As for the rest of my day, I met up with a classmate to go over material for our Human Growth and Development final exam on Wednesday. She was so horribly unprepared though...hadn't done ANY of the study questions since the midterm, really?? I mean, I slacked off on that too, up until last week because I wanted to have material to discuss with people. You would think making a study date with someone would at least prompt you to pull something out of your ass the night before? She asked me on Wednesday to meet up today...so she had at least 2 days to work on it! GAH! Eventually I was getting so mad that she was wasting my time, I told her "Look I need to leave, as I have two finals which happen before this one." I was holding back from saying "Because you're of no use to me anyway, as you don't have anything to contribute, you useless twat!" Even worse, she's not a Kinesiology major, and hasn't even taken an introductory Physiology class. So the questions she was asking me were too remedial for me to tolerate. She actually asked me what the world "unrelated" meant. REALLY?!!?!! Seriously had to refrain from hitting her!!
Studying Anatomy tonight and tomorrow on my own. Sunday, meeting with my tutor for Anatomy and then heading up to campus to meet with some classmates to discuss our Neurological Disorders final (these are the two exams I have on Tuesday). Thank goodness my other classmates I've worked with before and I know won't be wasting my time. I might learn something! ;)
(I realize this post was ranty, but I'm much happier than the rants would make it seem!) :)