Friday, December 09, 2005
teacher rant
Okay, this is a rant. Just so you know.
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I am supposed to be in class right now. Assembly Language Programming to be exact, taught by one of the most incompetent teachers at my uni. For starters, he didn't even open the emulator - required to make the programs work - in class until after the third assignment. He apparently retired 3 years ago, but they brought him back just for the semester because nobody else would teach this class. So why am I ranting now?
Today is black friday. No, not as in the day after thanksgiving, but the friday before finals. The biggest test of the semester is mere days away, and on the LAST class period before it - our last possible time to get info from the teacher about what to study for etc... - what does he do? He sits down and puts a movie of ANOTHER TEACHER on the screen giving a lecture about an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT architecture, which is of no use to us in our class. A way into it, during a pause or whatever, he asks the class why computers use binary. I said because electrons have two states, on and off, plus and minus. He didn't hear me, but he went on to ask why they aren't ternary, or use three states. He asked why they don't use -5 volts, 0, and 5 volts. Oh. My. God. I don't want to get into details, but he is seriously one of the dumbest teachers. I got up right then before the movie started playing even, and left. I hope he took the hint. I don't even care if I fail the class anymore; I'd rather take it over and actually learn the fucking material than get a C- and move on none the smarter. I am glad that I marked him as low as is possible on the teacher reivews, but it won't matter anyway. He'll never read my response. He is leaving after this semester, and - in my opinion - that is for the best for his students, and for the university.
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So now I am going to go to calculus, where I might just learn something.
Peace Out!
