Ok so first off I finished dad’s cufflinks over the weekend. Here they are they are not the best nor my favorite piece I have ever done but I like them and as a first project they are nice.
Ok now a note on my ethics class. I am having some serious problems with this class. Let me say first that whall I don’t really like philosophy I know that it can be quite interesting. My bias is not coming out of hating the subject or reading martial. The problems come from the reader they made and the way they set up plus the horrible teachers that make this class a real problem. The only saving grace to the whole class is the teacher I have she is younger than the other teachers and it’s her first time teaching the class, this is a very good thing.
Now the problems
Problem One) the structure of the class. - On Monday we have a large grope lecture in our only lecture hall on campus, there is always an essay due at the start of this class. This really bugs a lot of my classmates they say “why do I have to write the essay before I hear the lecture” I however know there are advantages in the teacher’s eyes to this so I am not going to go into that. Then depending on your schedule you will have an independent meeting with about 20 students and one of the four teachers. I believe this format makes since in a larger schools, it’s a great way to give a bunch of students the needed information and then really let it set and be able to answer questions. We are a small school. If the teachers are already on campus twice a week (and they all come to the lectures) why do we not just meet in the small groups as opposed to a large group?
Problem two) the large lecture achieves nothing besides boring us out of our minds. It also means that depending on the teacher the lecture will be structured differently. If we are trying to grasp difficult concepts, having to get used to a new lecture just adds to the stress.
Problem Three) there is one teacher I really hate, He’s not even my prime teacher but it’s like every time he talks he’s looking down on everyone. I have heard that in this small study groups he targets people to pick on every class. He is the head of the whole class, apparently he is somewhat well known. I don’t like his lectures they are confusing, highhanded and he insets little things like “In my option she does not know the text as well as she clams but I won’t mention that now” Ummm… hello you just told the whole class (100+) over the speakers. He also made the reader
Problem Four) the reader. I don’t really like readers they are unwieldy as all the text is scanned in and therefore sideways- making the thing hard to read. I understand that it does keep cost down so I live with that. But this reader is the worst one I have seen. For one thing there is a color photos on the cover of a painting…not a painting that is in anyway reverent to the class but is instead of the afor mentioned teacher… really you put yourself on the cover. I don’t really care that he is so big headed he thought that was a good move but the fact that putting the COLOR print on the cover jacks up the price, by ten dollars. I don’t need the decal for a extra ten dollars, the point was to keep the price down, right? A second gripe is that there is no index. I get that it’s a book put together from a bunch of different places but someone went through and numbered all the pages they could have noted where the parts end It’s a huge book its more than 1 ½ inches thick! And the last thing, the most anointing thing. He copy and pasted the strait Wikipedia articles on all the philosophy and added them to the back of the book. -_- I mean do you think we cannot get to Wikipedia on our own. I don’t need Wikipedia articles in print I can just find them on line. In fact I don’t even need my computer. I have an app for that. I have asked around, no one uses these they just add weight, kill more trees and add more cost to the printing.
Well that was a great rant I feel lots better after putting that out there. On a completely different note, I have no internet again I am posting this over a school computer; both the wifi and Ethernet are out.
Bigger news – there is a gas leak in the ceramics building so they had to turn off all the gas to fix the leak so none of the buildings have hot water or heat – Including my dorm, not the other dorm as they are off campus. There is no news of when they will turn it back on but I’m not completing yet. It is motive to get to the gym in the Moring, they have hot water. We are having a hall meeting later so I will find out more then.
Midterms are next week. Spring break is in four weeks.
Update on the Update: we are going to be going without heat and hot water for the next three days so they can fix the leak. They offered us a space heater but if we were to plug that in we would have to unplug everything else. I would rather put on a extra sweater then unplug my computer.