I am in a poor, poor mood. School was very depressing today. (well yesterday technically)
I had my math midterm, that I actually studied for! Which is an amazing feat for me. I never study. I spent over six hours on sunday studying, and hours the previous day as well. I was so proud of myself. As proud as I was, it would have helped if I was studying the right material. >.< The teacher said the test was on Chapters 1 through 5, though because he was unable to thoroughly go over chapter 5, he told us there would be very little chapter 5 on the test. So I studied the homework he assigned us, which conveniently covered chapters 1 through 4. Guess how much of the test was on chapter 5? About 90% of it. I couldn't even answer enough questions to pass.
-_-
Then of course there was writing class. We handed in our first assignments last week. Again, I was so proud of my work, I tried very hard on it. Like I said before, I really want to do well. We had been working on that assignment since the beginning of the course. Its a summary assignment about "Listening Skills", and as we working towards business skills, and eventually "Communication in the Work Place". She repeatedly said, over and over, class after class, that our summary assignment was about listening skills in the workplace. "Workplace this, Workplace that". She told us to gear the assignment towards our future goal workplace as well. So, she walks into the class today, glances over all of us, and tells us that after going over our assignments, she was extremely disappointed that
none of us included anything about listening skills in the classroom. She went on and on in an extremely passive aggressive and condescending tone about how we should have known what to include, and this sort of thing wasn't going to fly in the future. I could see if we had missed something somewhere, or if some of us got it while others didn't. But there is a reason
NO ONE in the class included classroom listening. That is not what the assignment was about. Even the article we were summarizing, was not about classroom listening. I guess I missed the part where we were supposed to read her mind, then make up shit.
Its also ironic really, our next assignment is on a book basically about how to succeed in life. And one of the main rules in this book is that one is not supposed to negatively criticize others, and even should give constructive criticism and complements on what they have done well, in order to encourage them, yadda yadda. She says she loves this book, and there is a reason that its so popular, and that we should use the rules in this book in our everyday life. I wish she would practice what she preached. I have never heard one nice thing come out of her mouth, and she spends all class telling us how wrong we are about everything. She even asks us our opinions on things, and when we answer, she says we're wrong. How can our fucking opinion be wrong? Maybe I'm being over-sensitive, maybe I'm just in bad mood. But I'm not the only one in class that feels this way, so it ain't just me.
Or maybe, she's trying to prepare us for the work life. That I can believe actually. How much it is going to suck, how much I'm going to be talked down to no matter how hard I try to do things well. Doesn't mean I have to agree with how she treats us, and I fucking hate it when people say one thing, and do something else, especially if their actions effect others. Either way, I'm just gonna suck it up. Only three more months, I'll still work hard, and get a good mark. Then I'll never take a class she's teaching again.
Like I said, piss poor mood. I need sleep. I need tylenol.
/rant
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