Liberal Arts Major
This is a class I don't usually attend for reasons which would become apparent should you read the ratings he gets. This usually works out fine as he posts his - easy as fuck, I might add - homework on Blackboard, but sometimes this strategy breaks down. He has a habit of putting up assignments haphazardly, so one gets the impression that all the assignments for the week are put up only for one to discover that, woops, he added something else. This happened to me once when I checked on a Monday, noticed no unanticipated assignments for the week, then checked again on Wednesday only to discover I had missed an assignment he probably added Tuesday (and he doesn't take anything late, of course). That got me a D in that module and I figured, oh well, I would have to check more often.
Then I get a D on the first midterm, a grade that should easily have been a B+ or A- were it not for comical grading practices, such as marking me down more than a whole letter grade for writing my tildes (these things: ~) backwards. Penmanship counts, people.
So that left me with a maximum of 54/60, which is still an A, although given how unpredictable his grading pattern is on tests a very doubtful A. Now it's an impossible A, as once again I missed an assignment due today. Ironically I had checked Monday and done the work for another assignment due today because I figured I might as well, then erroneously assumed he had finished posting all the assignments up until today and didn't check back yesterday to see the new one. Here's one time my natural inclination to procrastination would have served me well!
The solution to this is not that I should attend this class, expending 60 hours of my life on an utterly worthless enterprise, nor is it that I should check Blackboard for assignments religiously. It's that I should take heed of commentary on ratings sites and avoid those professors whose students vehemently agree suck. To put it in the words of one of those bright fellows on ratemyprofessors.com: he sat INSIDE his podium one day.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
Which is surprising, given the material we're dealing with. This is seriously freshman-in-American-high-school-level stuff. I don't even read anymore, I just do the assignments. If you can understand that "A -> B" means "If A, then B", you would have no trouble at all if you didn't have to contend with the idiosyncrasies of the professor.
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Message last edited by Ogordemir99 on 10/15/2008 at 03:04:33 PM
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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