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May 05, 2005
Spread this Sheet ye Bastid
I have been immersed in the lovely time of Midterms all week. I am thoroughly frustrated with this Excel class I am currently in. Not because I am having any problem doing the work or knowing what to do. Not because I had this class once before and passed it already. Not because I had to retake this class under the two year rule. And not because I am already in 3 other classes (all law courses).
No. This class is thoroughly p*ssing me off owing to the fact that the instructor is a complete unmitigated ASS. I log in the first week (2nd day) since I had to work the first day of school. I catch a load of crapola that I need to make an introductory post on the class forum (nevermind that its due that Friday). I post, expressly making it known that I was working all day the previous day and that this assignment isn't due until friday anyway. Already his attitude is starting me off on the bad foot.
Next we get badgered about when assignments are due by, which we all know (as is clearly written on the assignments and the syllabus) to be due by midnight each Friday with him grading on Sundays. He wants us to email him every time he posts grades on sundays so he knows that we have seen them (anal much). This last week he writes a big announcement about how he cant get to grading the last section work until monday night owing to birthdays and stuff in his family. Check monday and he hasnt done it, irrespective of the fact that the midterm is due by this friday.
So I log in to take the midterm just now. He threatens that he knows when we download the test (yank) and that we have exactly two hours to turn in the assignments for the midterm (8 of them) or we get a zero. So, after reading the instructions I click the link and the window opens into a pdf document (and again, no notice to people or accomodation for those that cannot open those files, what an ASS) which is a BAD photocopy of assessments from his instructor book, and I do mean BAD BAD copy. We are supposed to copy format and other stuff and I can barely read the numbers and recognize what is bold and what is just shitty copy. I am so pissed off.
Nevermind that some of the files which we are supposed to open to do the assignments are from the cd which came with the book (which is divided into at least 20+ sections). He fails to mention WHERE on the cd to find the files he was using in the midterm, cause its only broken down by chapter, NOT TESTS. I found them finally (no where obvious), but I can just see the people that have problems with computers absolutely having a nervous breakdown.
Now, the instructions on the test say to name stuff completely different from what he said, so again you get disparity. You get portions that say to print a sheet, make more changes, print again, make more changes, etc... which since this is all online means we cannot do... which means we have to copy each stage after a print to a new sheet to turn in. *roll* Again, he never bothered to teach others how to do that (I know how anyway, but can you imagine a beginner dealing with this stupid shit?)
I am so going to flame his freaking evaluation to high hell. I am so p*ssed.
Posted by Ravennacht at May 5, 2005 01:24 AM Posted to Education
