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May. 22nd, 2007 04:08 pmDo you all understand how awesome James Coburn was? I don't think you do. He IS New Mexico. And by God, you are DEAD.
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cinam and I took the most insultingly easy test today in Statistics. That test is 25% of our grade in that class. And it included questions like "Is the chart above a) a bar chart b) a pie chart c) a histogram or d) a dotplot." HINT: A PIE CHART IS SHAPED LIKE A PIE. Jesus. I mean, an A is an A, and I was looking for an easy class to get out of the way in summer term so I wouldn't have to stretch it over a semester, but HELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH. Some girl was using her phone as a calculator. I'm sorry - what? Do you have a MR F bracelet? Did you not go through high school? You can't have your phone out during a test! I couldn't believe the professor didn't just take her test away and go "I'm sorry, you get a zero on this test. You now have to take the optional final." It's not HARD to get a calculator for the test. Not only are they for sale all over campus, if all you needed was the functions your phone calculator gave you, you could pick one up at the bookstore for $1.50. The same price as a pack of scantrons. Honestly.
I'm so frustrated with the people in that class. They've been continuously bitching about how hard things are and how worried they are and oh my God, I have no idea what's on the test and what's going on in this class wahhhhh. You know what we've been learning? The definitions of population vs. sample and different kinds of charts. That's IT. We haven't been asked to do a single thing more complicated than very, very, very basic summation notation and a histogram. That's barely even math. Suck it up.
Oh, and my American History class is full of football players. I can tell this because they are all gigantic and built like brick walls, and if they're all taking a gen ed summer course at the same time, they're football players. But sweet lord, those are huge guys. And they also seem to have trouble with the concept of "quizzes due at beginning of class." It's a ten o'clock class, people. It's not like it's seven in the morning. Drag your asses out of bed and have your quizzes ready. But they don't have to, actually, because there are no consequences for not doing their work on time or coming to class before we're halfway done with going over the answers. The professor just goes "What do you think, class? Should we let them turn their quizzes in even though people have come in late every day and we all heard you the first day explaining that quizzes are due at the beginning of class?" And of course everyone says yes, let's let them. SMASH. It's NOT that difficult to come to class with your quizzes done and your scantron filled out with the answers. It's really, really NOT.
Edit: I'm watching the last half of the second season of Gilmore Girls now (because they didn't download right when I was doing my first run viewing and I forgot about them until a few days ago and redownloaded) and MMMMMM, DEAN. Deeeeeaaaan. I looooove Dean.
cinam and I took the most insultingly easy test today in Statistics. That test is 25% of our grade in that class. And it included questions like "Is the chart above a) a bar chart b) a pie chart c) a histogram or d) a dotplot." HINT: A PIE CHART IS SHAPED LIKE A PIE. Jesus. I mean, an A is an A, and I was looking for an easy class to get out of the way in summer term so I wouldn't have to stretch it over a semester, but HELLO MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH. Some girl was using her phone as a calculator. I'm sorry - what? Do you have a MR F bracelet? Did you not go through high school? You can't have your phone out during a test! I couldn't believe the professor didn't just take her test away and go "I'm sorry, you get a zero on this test. You now have to take the optional final." It's not HARD to get a calculator for the test. Not only are they for sale all over campus, if all you needed was the functions your phone calculator gave you, you could pick one up at the bookstore for $1.50. The same price as a pack of scantrons. Honestly.I'm so frustrated with the people in that class. They've been continuously bitching about how hard things are and how worried they are and oh my God, I have no idea what's on the test and what's going on in this class wahhhhh. You know what we've been learning? The definitions of population vs. sample and different kinds of charts. That's IT. We haven't been asked to do a single thing more complicated than very, very, very basic summation notation and a histogram. That's barely even math. Suck it up.
Oh, and my American History class is full of football players. I can tell this because they are all gigantic and built like brick walls, and if they're all taking a gen ed summer course at the same time, they're football players. But sweet lord, those are huge guys. And they also seem to have trouble with the concept of "quizzes due at beginning of class." It's a ten o'clock class, people. It's not like it's seven in the morning. Drag your asses out of bed and have your quizzes ready. But they don't have to, actually, because there are no consequences for not doing their work on time or coming to class before we're halfway done with going over the answers. The professor just goes "What do you think, class? Should we let them turn their quizzes in even though people have come in late every day and we all heard you the first day explaining that quizzes are due at the beginning of class?" And of course everyone says yes, let's let them. SMASH. It's NOT that difficult to come to class with your quizzes done and your scantron filled out with the answers. It's really, really NOT.
Edit: I'm watching the last half of the second season of Gilmore Girls now (because they didn't download right when I was doing my first run viewing and I forgot about them until a few days ago and redownloaded) and MMMMMM, DEAN. Deeeeeaaaan. I looooove Dean.
