Happy Birthday, Kyle!!
So today is Kyle’s 21st birthday. One of his best friends is going to pick me up and we’re going to Louisville tonight. Some other guys from high school are going to come up later. I don’t know if I’ll be hanging out with them the whole night or not. I’ll be the only girl if I do, but I will try very hard to have lots of fun.
Not much is happening here. I got a B- on a 1-page paper from the professor who is the absolute worst professor I’ve ever had. I have learned nothing in that class and have a total of I think 3 pages of notes for 4 weeks of class, including writing down “Why does it matter?” three times. And 1 1/2 of those pages came from student presentations, not from her. The last B I got on a paper was from a teacher I actually respect. It was 15-20 pages, we had the whole semester to work on it, and he gave me an 88, a high B. This paper, she sent us an e-mail Wednesday afternoon to ask us to do it for class Thursday, said it should be one page, and it was over stuff we hadn’t been able to discuss in class that we had read a week before that because she talks about nothing all day. And she had C+ marked on it, then changed it to B-. Alex said she had heard since the woman had gotten a reputation as being easy, she’s now just grading unreasonably hard. She wrote 2 comments on the entire page and gave me a B-. I’m going to go talk to her, but I don’t know when because she has a total of 4 office hours throughout the week and I have class or work during all of them.
So then I got really upset. I cried. Whitney cheered me up. And when Melissa came back, we complained about her. Melissa has her too, but in a different class. I wouldn’t care that much but the class is a complete waste of my time. I could learn a lot more by sitting in my room for an hour and 15 minutes reading through stuff. After the student presentations yesterday, we had 25 minutes left of class. So we had two fairly large readings that she said we would go over in class, so I thought we would start on that. Instead, a girl asked how the Indians up north kept warm, and we talked about fur, fur keeping you warm in Russia, PETA, how PETA people are crazy, though she used to be a member until her mother bought her a fur coat in Russia to keep her warm, and how artificial fur doesn’t keep the wind out as well. I can see fur relating to a history of American Indians class, but the rest, no.
And she let us out late because the clock on the wall is 10 minutes slow. In Melissa’s class, the students set the clock 10 minutes fast so they are always let out early. This woman apparently does not have a watch and doesn’t pay any attention to time. I was almost late to my next class but made it.
So yeah, not much happening, just me getting mad. I don’t understand how we can have some really great, really awesome people here and then have people like her, who somehow managed to get a doctorate, though she acts quite stupid very often. It’s a huge, unfair disparity.