It's partly a culture and a parenting thing, so it's complicated. In this particular case there isn't "the deaf" but a whole range of education, communication, and cultural choices. His viewpoint in an EXTREMELY lower dose is not uncommon and even explainable. But he is fucknuts around the bend. If you really want to know how it all works PM me since there's no need for me to go into it here.Gusto said:
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I do try to be fair; for the most part, I'll give even fairly-bad professors decent scores simply because I realize the onus of the class is on me to do well, and life happens. But I guess I didn't make it clear enough in the first paragraph (sorry, not being snarky; just realized I might have worded it poorly) that she's actually the History department head (hence why the, "Sorry to have delayed this so long, but it's so busy at this institution for department chairs!").fade said:
Furthermore, she's taught this class for at least several years (and it's an old class, because it's part of the general ed requirements; basically first-year history, which I neglected to take my first couple years at school). I know this because she let us know in the beginning of class that she was trying something a little different; I'm cool with that, because at least she was taking the initiative in trying to make it a better class.
What I DON'T appreciate, though, is the fact the format of the course has drastically changed several times, something like this:
Format 1 (lasted about a week and a half): Weekly group meetings, less of a lecture, more of a "reporting on what we learned" to the rest of the class once a week; two chapters a week. I was cool with this, and prepared adequately a week or so in advance.
Format 2 (lasted about three weeks): Whoops, guess that didn't work. Same old same old with lectures, you're graded on a midterm, a project, and a final. Everything else is appreciated, but not graded.
Format 3 (current format): Whoops, guess that didn't work. Okay, you now have a quiz (on Thursday, and she just let us know today) on material we're covering on Tuesday, in addition to two more quizzes and a quiz on the project. Oh, and you also have to read three chapters every week now, rather than two. Sorry I'm so busy!
If it was a new professor, or a new class, I'd be cool with it. I've had various combinations of those before (my animal physiology professor is a new professor at the university, and I've been trying to point out a few problems that both myself and a few others have had with the lecture style), but I don't really see an excuse for screwing the pooch this badly, especially suddenly dropping additional graded assignments on us (and an additional workload, when I had plenty enough on my plate already) three days in advance.
So, no. I'm not going to give her zeros, but she is going to hear an earful from me.
I catch myself not wanting to go to bed more and more often lately. I think this is largely due to getting tired of looking for a job and trying to be more outgoing. I'm getting tired of trying and feeling like I'm getting nothing back.
a) How the hell did this disappear from the front page? You all have magically improved lives? Why didn't anyone inform me? :waah:
b) My ex's stepfather had a motorbike/truck accident. Surgery for over 10 hours, but apparently he'll be fine...Tsk. Damn.
c) One of my favourite bars in Brussels burned down two days ago :waah:
b) My ex's stepfather had a motorbike/truck accident. Surgery for over 10 hours, but apparently he'll be fine...Tsk. Damn.
c) One of my favourite bars in Brussels burned down two days ago :waah:
Just spent three hours texting with a girl I was into a few months back. I'm getting past it, although I do catch myself thinking about her a bit more often than I'd like. At any rate, after three hours of texting, I'm glad she seems to at least take an interest in me as a human being. I'm not getting any ideas. I'm just glad stuff isn't weird.
I just wanted to tell someone.
I just wanted to tell someone.
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Scarlet Varlet
More shite at work and it's looking like something will happen. Dunno when, but the sooner the better.
I don't expect anything to affect me, but ultimately any change will.
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I don't expect anything to affect me, but ultimately any change will.
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Iaculus
Dibs on first organ-harvesting!Bubble181 said:
Umm... second hugs, I mean. Yeah. Right. Second hugs.
aranoid: So, Gusto, how's your diet been lately? Just curious.
Ugh. I am so tired of my "diversity" class. The teacher spends more time talking about his accomplishments than he does about anything of value. Thats when he shows up and doesn't just send his TA in with videos to watch.
The other day, we are in groups analyzing comments from people from other cultures. Our is from a Colombian who says something about how he is "surprised at how many young adults don't live with their families and do everything alone and that America must be a very lonely place". So when we talk about it during class and he asks where the comment is coming from and what underlies it I say, "You know what's interesting here is that on our end we would see his description, turning 18, moving out, going to school, work, etc, as a good thing, as a sign of independence, but culturally for him it's something very different, it's a lonely thing, where a person is isolated from their family. It's a difference between what cultures value I think."
So he stops me and turns to the class and says, "See? This is what I'm talking about, not being able to see things outside of your culture, always making it about you"
Did he not even hear me? Maybe he was thinking about how awesome he is.
I'm through with it. He's getting my homework and he's getting my body in the last class but he sure as hell isn't getting my respect or my attention. He may have achieved everything anyone possibly could in life, according to him, but I don't care for him pulling shit like that on me. You want to teach me about "cultural diversity"? I got a lesson for you, DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE. TREAT OTHERS WITH RESPECT.
Hows that for a lesson? 4,000 dollars please.
The other day, we are in groups analyzing comments from people from other cultures. Our is from a Colombian who says something about how he is "surprised at how many young adults don't live with their families and do everything alone and that America must be a very lonely place". So when we talk about it during class and he asks where the comment is coming from and what underlies it I say, "You know what's interesting here is that on our end we would see his description, turning 18, moving out, going to school, work, etc, as a good thing, as a sign of independence, but culturally for him it's something very different, it's a lonely thing, where a person is isolated from their family. It's a difference between what cultures value I think."
So he stops me and turns to the class and says, "See? This is what I'm talking about, not being able to see things outside of your culture, always making it about you"
Did he not even hear me? Maybe he was thinking about how awesome he is.
I'm through with it. He's getting my homework and he's getting my body in the last class but he sure as hell isn't getting my respect or my attention. He may have achieved everything anyone possibly could in life, according to him, but I don't care for him pulling shit like that on me. You want to teach me about "cultural diversity"? I got a lesson for you, DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE. TREAT OTHERS WITH RESPECT.
Hows that for a lesson? 4,000 dollars please.
Maybe we should start an "Epic Fail" thread for when we need to Baww or something bad has happened in our lives...
I was trying to be ironic. :waah:Gusto said:
I've been sitting in front of this damned computer working on an engineering design for the last four hours when the program I'm using just crashed... with nothing saved.
Live and learn Necro, live and learn.
Live and learn Necro, live and learn.That's usually what I'm doing.Espy said:
In all seriousness, I would get this douche on video, edit it for maximum douchebaggedness and send it to the douchebags in charge. I had the same experience and I feel like I wasted over 10 grand to learn.... nothing. I should have done something proactive to improve my education at the time, but I was too busy smoking the drugs to look out for myself and my best interests.
The reason I dropped out of university last semester was a teacher similar to this. She wasn't always ranting on about how awesome SHE was, but she took every opportunity she could to put my generation down.Espy said:Ugh. I am so tired of my "diversity" class. The teacher spends more time talking about his accomplishments than he does about anything of value. Thats when he shows up and doesn't just send his TA in with videos to watch.
The other day, we are in groups analyzing comments from people from other cultures. Our is from a Colombian who says something about how he is "surprised at how many young adults don't live with their families and do everything alone and that America must be a very lonely place". So when we talk about it during class and he asks where the comment is coming from and what underlies it I say, "You know what's interesting here is that on our end we would see his description, turning 18, moving out, going to school, work, etc, as a good thing, as a sign of independence, but culturally for him it's something very different, it's a lonely thing, where a person is isolated from their family. It's a difference between what cultures value I think."
So he stops me and turns to the class and says, "See? This is what I'm talking about, not being able to see things outside of your culture, always making it about you"
Did he not even hear me? Maybe he was thinking about how awesome he is.
I'm through with it. He's getting my homework and he's getting my body in the last class but he sure as hell isn't getting my respect or my attention. He may have achieved everything anyone possibly could in life, according to him, but I don't care for him pulling shit like that on me. You want to teach me about "cultural diversity"? I got a lesson for you, DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE. TREAT OTHERS WITH RESPECT.
Hows that for a lesson? 4,000 dollars please.
The thing is that I didn't mind. Because she was right in a lot of the stuff she was saying. But every. DAY!
Then the woman has the gall to try and shoehorn me into the ignorant-white-man-children category that she has constructed for everyone in the university, by handing me back a paper with all of the 'flower words' that I 'misused' circled in red, with the note "Don't try to be poetic. It's not working."
I am very proud of my grasp of the english language. I don't hand anything in unless I'm absolutely confident that I'm communicating what I want in exactly the way I want. And I looked up all of the words that she had circled, and I was using them correctly, albeit with definitions that regularly showed up as the sixth and seventh entry.
If I'm a martyr in this society, she is my patron. But she's also my executioner.
Sorry, I figured I'd attach my own rant / express my camaraderie in the trenches of academia.
Yeah I can't defend teachers like those. Some people get into academia purely for self-aggrandizement. I'm really lucky that my grad school teacher training was conducted by men and women for whom the education of others (us, and our future students) was more important than that.
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Many long years ago, when I first tried going to college, I had an accounting instructor who was such a late 80's/early 90's stereotypical yuppie. Everything was about him: his "Beemer", his hot girlfriend, his cushy job in a CPA firm, etc. To make matters worse it was a Saturday class, so I had to listen to him for 4 hours on one of my days off from work. He divided us up into study groups. He expected the groups to meet at least once a week. I was the only person who lived in my area. He put me with a group of people that lived 20 miles from my home instead of with people who were closer. When I complained, he told me it was too bad and that I was expected to participate. He brought in a box of donuts one Saturday morning - for himself - and told us that someone should have brought him coffee. I ended up quitting the class. It was either that or I was going to throw myself out of the window I sat next to.
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Weird. One of my co-workers is exactly like this. Almost to a tee. He has a series of ancient scratchy VHS tapes that he sends a TA to show instead of teaching. His teaching method then consists of tearing apart the videos and telling stories about himself and the work he's doing. Woopdeedo. This is a second semester core curriculum class. None of those students care, especially if that's all you're going to do.Espy said:Ugh. I am so tired of my "diversity" class. The teacher spends more time talking about his accomplishments than he does about anything of value. Thats when he shows up and doesn't just send his TA in with videos to watch.
The other day, we are in groups analyzing comments from people from other cultures. Our is from a Colombian who says something about how he is "surprised at how many young adults don't live with their families and do everything alone and that America must be a very lonely place". So when we talk about it during class and he asks where the comment is coming from and what underlies it I say, "You know what's interesting here is that on our end we would see his description, turning 18, moving out, going to school, work, etc, as a good thing, as a sign of independence, but culturally for him it's something very different, it's a lonely thing, where a person is isolated from their family. It's a difference between what cultures value I think."
So he stops me and turns to the class and says, "See? This is what I'm talking about, not being able to see things outside of your culture, always making it about you"
Did he not even hear me? Maybe he was thinking about how awesome he is.
I'm through with it. He's getting my homework and he's getting my body in the last class but he sure as * isn't getting my respect or my attention. He may have achieved everything anyone possibly could in life, according to him, but I don't care for him pulling poop like that on me. You want to teach me about "cultural diversity"? I got a lesson for you, DON'T BE AN *. TREAT OTHERS WITH RESPECT.
Hows that for a lesson? 4,000 dollars please.
He doesn't know it, but I was kind of hired as his replacement, since I do work that falls under the same general umbrella. He's been reduced to one class a semester because he's so poorly reviewed.
On the OTHER hand, I cannot stand when you students talk during class. Give me some respect. I don't mind a smattering of conversation, but in my big 200+ student lectures, there are always little clutches of conversations that go on as though I'm not there for the whole class period. Nothing works either. Embarrassment works for 5 minutes. And if I do get you to shut up, you clam up completely and stop interacting as a class. Honestly, the talking doesn't affect me. I can't hear it because I'm one notch short of yelling. But your classmates who actually *gasp* want to be there come and complain to me after class. Oh yeah, and while I'm at it, I can't stand when you leave early or show up really late. It's disruptive and it makes me think you couldn't care less about the class. And don't give me that crap about how your last class was across campus. Everyone's was, but they all made it on time.
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I dunno, sometimes you just can't avoid it. I was recently 15 minutes late for a lecture because I was trying to buy Greenday tickets. What could I have done?!?fade said:
aranoid:In my first year of university, I had an 8:00 (in the morning) math course. One of my roommates was in the class, so I started getting a ride with her to school ... until she developed the habit of leaving at a time that made us 5-10 minutes late for class two out of three mornings a week.Mr_Chaz said:I dunno, sometimes you just can't avoid it. I was recently 15 minutes late for a lecture because I was trying to buy Greenday tickets. What could I have done?!?fade said:
I started to walk instead. Nothing irritates me more than students being consistently late for class. Here or there, I could excuse. But every morning? If you're disruptive by accident, or because of circumstance, I can forgive it if you look sorry. When you're that consistently late, though, you're not sorry.
I don't know if this goes in Rant or Epic Win, but I finally got the balls to ask this girl out who I've met a few times and am quite interested in. No response yet and I'm crazy nervous, 'cause normally I don't do things this impulsive. 
This is why teaching deaf students is great. If they talk during class you can watch their conversations.fade said:
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Kitty Sinatra
Yeah! You're so vain you probably think this post is about you.
What you do at this point is stand up and tell him that you, being 1/20th (insert other ethnicity than white) find his comments offensive and that you plan to report him to the school board for his discriminatory comments. That'll shut him upEspy said:Maybe not but since he responded to me and followed up with a "YOU students" I figured, let's be clear on this now...
Cajungal
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Sometimes when I'm spending the day with my boyfriend's family... I think ahead and shudder at how often I'm going to have to hear people bitch about "damn liberals" for the rest of my life. Then I sigh, shake it off, and remember that the fellow complains about that just as much as me. At least we're together in that. But it still gets annoying. His brother's wife is kind of the same as me, so that's good. It's just one of those things I'll have to deal with and then forget about while strumming my ukulele... o hey I'm doing that now!
For some reason that reminded me of when I first got to L.A. and had bought myself a ukulele. At that time I was shopping my scripts around and all that fun stuff. One night one of my managers called and asked what I was up to. I said "Oh, just teaching myself the ukulele."
The long, long pause that followed should have been my clue that it was never going to work out with us, professionally.
The long, long pause that followed should have been my clue that it was never going to work out with us, professionally.
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