This was fun last semester, but I'd like it to be more active this go round. How's everyone doing? What're you taking? Any college professors you hate yet? Any really awesome ones? Project you're looking forward to? Here's the place to spill.
I'm gonna start with a current bitch about my speech teacher that I'd like to get off my chest:
I signed up for this basic, freshman-level Public Speaking class because I need a speech credit to get my Associates by December (applied for graduation today, yay!) and there was only one class with openings left, MWF from 8:00-8:50 in the morning. Since I'm already at work at this time (and I work on campus), I go ahead and sign up. Well, as it turns out she takes the entire first week of class off so she can go to the Republican National Convention, then comes back the second week wearing a gaudy cowboy hat plastered with "Vote for BUSH" pins and stickers on it. That was bad enough, but I figured, hey, she keeps her politics to herself, I'll keep mine to myself. Just do the speeches and get out of there is my plan. I tell myself to ignore the fact that she shows up to class 10 minutes late every day, holds the class 10 minutes past the scheduled class time (and a lot of students have 9:00 classes on the other side of campus) and takes points off of presentations for stuff she never explained(we had to practically beg her to clarify how she wanted us to do our PowerPoint presentations, and it wasn't until half the class had lost ten points for bad posture that she made a passing remark about how she wants us to stand.) I've had worse teachers, I tell myself. I need the class, just suck it up and bitch about it later.
However.
The class is rapidly becoming her personal preaching hour, and we're powerless to stop her. She's obviously the biggest conservative on the planet (she actually passed around republican propoganda pamphlets as examples of fairly balanced sources of information!) And while I thought I could swallow her Bush championing (I live in Texas, I've learned to adapt), yesterday she took it one further.
We're beginning to work on our next speech, which is supossed to be an informative speech (it's where you get up and you talk about something you don't think the audiance would already know, thus informing them. Yeah, this class ain't exactly brain surgery). And as an example of an informative speech, a good one, one that handles the issue fairly and honestly and truthfully, who does she cite?
Joseph motherfucking McCarthy.
I nearly fell out of my chair. McCarthy?! And she said some vague remark about how he had the courage to seek out communists who were working in secret in the United States government back in the 1950s. And then she proceeded to one up that comment by stating, matter-o-factly, that CNN and CSPAN were liberal puppets that only want to force feed you a communist agenda, and that we should all watch Fox News for a fair outlook on the world. In-fucking-sane.
Anybody have a worse prof than me this semester?
I'm gonna start with a current bitch about my speech teacher that I'd like to get off my chest:
I signed up for this basic, freshman-level Public Speaking class because I need a speech credit to get my Associates by December (applied for graduation today, yay!) and there was only one class with openings left, MWF from 8:00-8:50 in the morning. Since I'm already at work at this time (and I work on campus), I go ahead and sign up. Well, as it turns out she takes the entire first week of class off so she can go to the Republican National Convention, then comes back the second week wearing a gaudy cowboy hat plastered with "Vote for BUSH" pins and stickers on it. That was bad enough, but I figured, hey, she keeps her politics to herself, I'll keep mine to myself. Just do the speeches and get out of there is my plan. I tell myself to ignore the fact that she shows up to class 10 minutes late every day, holds the class 10 minutes past the scheduled class time (and a lot of students have 9:00 classes on the other side of campus) and takes points off of presentations for stuff she never explained(we had to practically beg her to clarify how she wanted us to do our PowerPoint presentations, and it wasn't until half the class had lost ten points for bad posture that she made a passing remark about how she wants us to stand.) I've had worse teachers, I tell myself. I need the class, just suck it up and bitch about it later.
However.
The class is rapidly becoming her personal preaching hour, and we're powerless to stop her. She's obviously the biggest conservative on the planet (she actually passed around republican propoganda pamphlets as examples of fairly balanced sources of information!) And while I thought I could swallow her Bush championing (I live in Texas, I've learned to adapt), yesterday she took it one further.
We're beginning to work on our next speech, which is supossed to be an informative speech (it's where you get up and you talk about something you don't think the audiance would already know, thus informing them. Yeah, this class ain't exactly brain surgery). And as an example of an informative speech, a good one, one that handles the issue fairly and honestly and truthfully, who does she cite?
Joseph motherfucking McCarthy.
I nearly fell out of my chair. McCarthy?! And she said some vague remark about how he had the courage to seek out communists who were working in secret in the United States government back in the 1950s. And then she proceeded to one up that comment by stating, matter-o-factly, that CNN and CSPAN were liberal puppets that only want to force feed you a communist agenda, and that we should all watch Fox News for a fair outlook on the world. In-fucking-sane.
Anybody have a worse prof than me this semester?
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