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This just has me on tilt today and a journal entry doesn't feel like enough. So I'm basically going to leave it here and anyone who also has gripes can drop off here too.
I'm starting to have a real beef with my most of my classmates in the summer course I'm currently taking. There's a discussion on supplemental readings that takes place every Thursday (except for the last one in three weeks). Yesterday there were about 10 we needed to talk about. They're short readings and while I didn't really expect to go through all of them, I still expected a good seven or eight to come up.
Instead, hell broke loose. About 8-10 in the class of about 25 starting arguing on points with each other vocally...and a lot of it was way off track with what we were supposed to be talking about. At one point it was obvious that the professor had lost control of the proceedings, but she was powerless to shut them up; they just kept talking over her. At one point one clearly frustrated fellow student walked out on the discussion as a result, and I felt really tempted to follow his example.
Here's why this bugs me so: I'm supposed to be using this reading for a paper that's due Tuesday, and since the articles I was planning to use never came up -- we never came close to getting there -- I have no confidence that I've interpreted them correctly. So I basically have to slap something together that's going to feel like it was put together at the last minute, and yet I feel that I can do no better than that.
The young lady who sits next to me in class was equally upset and tells me she is no longer taking part in any of these discussions for the remainder of the course; she's only going to show up and pray that these people will stay in line for once. I feel like I have no choice but to do the same...my professor saw I was hurt after this discussion and tried to do some small talk to lighten me up a little, but I feel so pissed off that I didn't try to bring up what I felt about the discussion gone wrong, because I'm on tilt stuff comes out that I really don't intend to say.
Vent over....sorry so long.
I'm starting to have a real beef with my most of my classmates in the summer course I'm currently taking. There's a discussion on supplemental readings that takes place every Thursday (except for the last one in three weeks). Yesterday there were about 10 we needed to talk about. They're short readings and while I didn't really expect to go through all of them, I still expected a good seven or eight to come up.
Instead, hell broke loose. About 8-10 in the class of about 25 starting arguing on points with each other vocally...and a lot of it was way off track with what we were supposed to be talking about. At one point it was obvious that the professor had lost control of the proceedings, but she was powerless to shut them up; they just kept talking over her. At one point one clearly frustrated fellow student walked out on the discussion as a result, and I felt really tempted to follow his example.
Here's why this bugs me so: I'm supposed to be using this reading for a paper that's due Tuesday, and since the articles I was planning to use never came up -- we never came close to getting there -- I have no confidence that I've interpreted them correctly. So I basically have to slap something together that's going to feel like it was put together at the last minute, and yet I feel that I can do no better than that.
The young lady who sits next to me in class was equally upset and tells me she is no longer taking part in any of these discussions for the remainder of the course; she's only going to show up and pray that these people will stay in line for once. I feel like I have no choice but to do the same...my professor saw I was hurt after this discussion and tried to do some small talk to lighten me up a little, but I feel so pissed off that I didn't try to bring up what I felt about the discussion gone wrong, because I'm on tilt stuff comes out that I really don't intend to say.
Vent over....sorry so long.
Sorry it's bugging you, it would bug me too, I never enjoyed a volatile classroom. People don't control themselves very well.
have some peace~
Secondly the paper that you have to write for Tuesday what is it about?
The way I see it it is YOUR interpretation of the texts. Therefore you cannot be wrong. So long as you have a reasoned argument and evidence from the texts to back up how you reached that interpretation it can't be wrong
I had to write an essay on how Antony and Cleopatra represented Rome and Egypt, and I interpreted several things differently to the teacher. She was impressed with my arguments and we ended up having a long debate about things after class in which she acknowledged that my view was one she had not considered previously and she now would
Perhaps email the professor if it is easier for you, maybe you could meet in smaller groups, with the people who want to have an actual discussion and debate in one room the rest in another room the professor between the two?
I hereby concede to everybody that even with the length of this vent, the many quirks I have really complicate how I'd deal with this other than to curl up into my shell; if I tried to explain everything to you guys I could probably make another 50 or so posts right now, and type until my eyes give out.