Rants, Rants and yet again … Rants
Fri, January 12, 2007
Filed under: Rants, School, WTF
This will probably be my last post until after the finals (that’s the beginning of February - for those curious) - and as far as things look now, I might even come out a much more pious person 
Remember my rant on Senior Students? In case you hadn’t noticed, it was a rant specifically geared towards a certain professor. Guess what he came up with yesterday morning? After advertising during the whole semester that there will be no other evaluation method than a project (a really nasty one at that - thanks), he decides that - for some unintelligible reason - his students couldn’t possibly be stressed enough:
Professor: Oh… by the way, next week we’ll be having a small written exam during the lecture.
Student (aghast): Er… what kind of exam?
Professor (airily): Oh you know, nothing to worry about. Just some small general knowledge facts. You know, from what we discussed during the lectures.Everyone looks at the professor aghast.
Student: And um… how much does it weigh in the final average?
Professor: 40 20 40 … no, DON’T WRITE THAT DOWN! I don’t know yet.Students all drop dead… metaphorically speaking (they still have Computer Networks to stress about).
Now before you go on harping about why no pone pays attention during class - let me just say that we didn’t do ANYTHING worthwhile during the lectures. The first three were spent by the professor asking us what SciFi named project we’d like to implement. The following parts were filled with students presenting essays that 99.99% of them had no idea about - which is exactly how they presented them. Is it a wonder if everyone was practically sleeping during the class?
And the final part of it… we found out he didn’t even study Computer Science in university, has no idea how to get rid of a Message Box (by clicking the OK button - in case you’re wondering) and never looks at your program’s code (so he can’t help you out if you’re stumped - and believe me you ARE stumped, since nothing you’ll do will ever be enough). Yours truly has a sneaky suspicion that he can’t even write code himself. Life’s so unfair 
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P.S. Sorry about the comments in Internet Explorer6 (maybe even 7 dunno, haven’t installed it). I’m working on it, still if you have any suggestion regarding it, don’t hesitate to tell me.
[edit] I truly love group projects… especially the part where we all gather ’round the window and start ooh-ing and aah-ing about the sudden rain (our brains were fried by the project I mentioned before). Unfortunately, It seems that they also leave me quite empty-headed. I can’t believe I told a classmate “My mom has no ears” instead of “My mom has no hole in her ears”. 
Oh my - that really sucks for you and your classmates. It must be frustrating to sit through entire classes feeling you waste your time or learn nothing - or even worse - learn something that is wrong. I hope you will do well at the mini exam!
That blows. Here in the USA we have these things called a syllabus. Thank God at my school that if a teacher deviates from the syllabus, students can go and complain to the Dean of Faculty. The syllabus lays down what we will be learning every day, and exactly when all assignments / quizzes / tests are.
Oh my what a rubbish professor, sounds so out of touch!! Good luck with your finals. I love your smilies
@Nan: I’m still hoping for a miracle, where even though we do atrociously on the exam he will give us great marks :razz: Apparently it’s only this year he became so disgusting. Wonder what bit him so bad?
@Kimmie: I wish we could do that here too, but I don’t think there’s such a thing as syllabus for universities. Besides the Dean teaches Maths (Statistical Calculus and Calculus of Probabilities) and he’s quite annoyed with comp sci majors on account of them not being interested in maths enough. :roll:
@Starlet: Thanks. The smilies belong to Aneesah (link on the sidebar under Daily Digest) - I wouldn’t even dream of making pixels.
That professor would hate me, because I’d be complaining to everyone I could find about him. If he can’t do things himself, he shouldn’t be teaching them!
Hmm, normally percentage weightages for exams and various assignments are set right at the beginning of the term for me, and documented in syllabuses which everyone has a copy of.
I am quite stunned at how forgetful your prof is. 
But then again, we do meet absent minded professors once in a while.
@Brenda: Well apparently he experienced some sort of “revelation” this Christmas break. We took this course because everyone said it was the easiest. As last year he only asked for some essays… this year
I know what it feels like to sit in class and not learn a thing, it’s very frustrating. Especially when your teacher is talking to the other students and thats why nothing is being taught :sweat:
In my case, the teacher’s so boring that the likelihood of talking to a student (with said student listening) is close to zero
Hmmh, anyway, did you mean “hole” in her ears instead of “whole”? :???: I’m still confused.