Assignment explanations gone wrong

I'm not usually one to outright complain about a professor's style of teaching. I tend to just brute force my way through a class if there's some element I don't enjoy. Now, that might be a surprise for those of you who remember various complaints about my Psychology professors last semester. Well... Apparently I've just …

Giving less than thanks

Happy Thanksgiving Break week, everybody! What a wonderful time it is to start decompressing a bit and spend extra time with your family and friends. Unless you're like me this year. Fair warning, this is a ranting vent post. So if you enjoy railing against people who do terrible things, you've come to the right …

Forgive the Venting

I was planning on writing a happy little post earlier today about finally getting the rear window fixed in my car. It's been probably about a year since the window stopped rolling up completely, and ever since it has been a constant struggle to keep it boarded up in case of rain. Plus, it just …

The Benefits to being a Hoarder

They called me crazy. "Why would you keep all of your old binders," they said. "You should just throw out/burn all that old stuff," they said. "When are you ever going to use your high school notes ever again," they said. Well who's laughing now viewing audience who I'm imagining chastises me for my corner …

Out of the Frying Pan…

Thanks to everyone for indulging me in taking a couple days off from writing these things so I could spend time with my Grandma before she left for Florida again tonight. Yesterday especially we spent a bunch of time together going to breakfast and watching a movie before going to a revolving sushi bar to …

Teaching Styles

As most students will tell you, over the years you begin to notice patterns in how some teachers decide to present their material. Obviously some will be more lax while others are more strict just in general, but there are deeper distinctions when it comes to specific aspects of teaching that everyone approaches differently — …