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Saturday, February 25, 2006

More Sad Faces
From RMP




A sociology professor

On the first day of class she spent the entire hour and twenty minutes putting everyone into groups, gave every group a "team name," and then proceeded to give everyone a piece of paper with their team name on it and said "This is your passport to learning." Enough said.

I have never been in a class that was such a waste of time. It was a joke to go to class... she just wanted to show us her power point slides. She was always late, rude to the students, and she even lost assignments from students.

The class is pointless lengthy videos, small group activities like crossword puzzles and word jumbles, and mostly INANE power point presentations filled with generalizations, stereotypes and big buzzwords. ARG.




A journalism professor

Pointless projects and assignments. Kept commenting about the course being an outlet for her to write a book. Boo.

She made it clear that she was only teaching our class so she would have a basis for writing her book. I left the course with a sour taste in my mouth.



A journalism professor:

I didn't read a single piece of information she asked us to read. I fell asleep during class discussions when I wasn't doodling. I skipped frequently. I got an A-.