SongDragon
02-15-2007, 10:01 PM
Only half-joking there. When my Spanish class got canceled I quickly found an HTML class to hop into, because I already liked playing with the stuff.
Yet, I'm not learning a thing. I'm called the "back-of-the-room guru" because I know a little about HTML which helps me out a lot. However I can't seem to learn from this teacher. He lectures and has the presentation on something called Vision that shows up on all the computers. I'm a visual learner, so that should be okay for me, but things that make perfect sense to him don't always make perfect sense to me (or other people in the class).
On the bright side I actually "had a job" for one weekend, as a private tutor for two people that needed to catch up in the class. I'm getting an alright grade in the class, but it makes me dread Wednesdays because that class where I'm not learning is in the morning, and I have to fight for a parking space when I don't even care about the class I'm fighting for them for! After that we have lab, which they've taken all the fun out of by making it "kiddie-safe" anyway. I already am not a big fan of Chemistry, though I took it because to me it's somewhat important to know what I'm dealing with. That some substances are soluble (ionic compounds, strong acids, strong bases) while others are not, or only weakly soluble. The stuff drives me nuts, but I'm learning in it, at least. But the labs... You have to choose your lab partner when you don't know anyone. So, my lab partner and I have one small difficulty... I have an accent and so does he, and he does not speak English well enough that he understands my accent well, and I don't always understand him, either, when some technical things excede his English.
Both these classes make me truly drag my feet on Wednesdays. Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm at the climbing gym fifteen minutes ahead of time (for the hell of it) chatting with the rest of my class (and making some gorgeous falls--managed to miss the mat today from about three times my height up, no injuries), and then I get a shower, go off to Chemistry for note-taking and general discussion, and then off to Calculus, one class where I actually have people I know from last semester.
So... My complaints are not about school in general (Lit is going well too, though I didn't mention it). My complaints are a little about lab, but more about CIT/HTML. I can't learn from that teacher, and there are months left of the course to go...
~SongDragon
P.S. Sorry for the rant.
Yet, I'm not learning a thing. I'm called the "back-of-the-room guru" because I know a little about HTML which helps me out a lot. However I can't seem to learn from this teacher. He lectures and has the presentation on something called Vision that shows up on all the computers. I'm a visual learner, so that should be okay for me, but things that make perfect sense to him don't always make perfect sense to me (or other people in the class).
On the bright side I actually "had a job" for one weekend, as a private tutor for two people that needed to catch up in the class. I'm getting an alright grade in the class, but it makes me dread Wednesdays because that class where I'm not learning is in the morning, and I have to fight for a parking space when I don't even care about the class I'm fighting for them for! After that we have lab, which they've taken all the fun out of by making it "kiddie-safe" anyway. I already am not a big fan of Chemistry, though I took it because to me it's somewhat important to know what I'm dealing with. That some substances are soluble (ionic compounds, strong acids, strong bases) while others are not, or only weakly soluble. The stuff drives me nuts, but I'm learning in it, at least. But the labs... You have to choose your lab partner when you don't know anyone. So, my lab partner and I have one small difficulty... I have an accent and so does he, and he does not speak English well enough that he understands my accent well, and I don't always understand him, either, when some technical things excede his English.
Both these classes make me truly drag my feet on Wednesdays. Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm at the climbing gym fifteen minutes ahead of time (for the hell of it) chatting with the rest of my class (and making some gorgeous falls--managed to miss the mat today from about three times my height up, no injuries), and then I get a shower, go off to Chemistry for note-taking and general discussion, and then off to Calculus, one class where I actually have people I know from last semester.
So... My complaints are not about school in general (Lit is going well too, though I didn't mention it). My complaints are a little about lab, but more about CIT/HTML. I can't learn from that teacher, and there are months left of the course to go...
~SongDragon
P.S. Sorry for the rant.