Okay, so its been a month...

Well, a month since my last post, I have finally found the time to make another one for all my wonderful followers to read.  (Please note at this time I have attracted a total of ONE follower.  :P)  When I typed my last blog, I should have been studying for test that I was about to take.  Today I'm doing a post while I should be studying for a Geography test that is less than two hours away... Does anyone sense a theme here?

I have been trying to think about what to talk about.  Considering it has been a month since my last posting, I'm thinking this signals that I have a pretty boring life, and that I do.

There are, however, a few things that have bothering me here recently that I think are worth addressing.  When I think of college, or higher education, I think of people trying to broaden their education to better their lives in the work force.  So, it seems to me that students will be asking question after question of professors.  So you would think that they'd receive answers, right?  Well thats not the case in not one, but two of my classes.  Just a few days ago in one of my history classes (which I have grown to hate for reasons I will explain later) one of the graduate assistants was giving the lecture.  I have to say that she is was about the single most boring person on the face of this earth.  (Besides me, of course.)  Its nearing the end of the class period and she hasn't finsihed her lecture, and she is pretty much freaking out.  A student in the back of the lecture hall raises his hand to ask a questions, and she was like, "I'm sorry, I have to finish this powerpoint!"

WTF!!?!!? (Please excuse my MSN lingo.)

You have to finish your Power Point and not answer a students question?  Forgive if I'm mistaken, but a classroom is where questions should be welcomed, not shunned!  In this same class we are given discussion points, so they punish us if we don't talk in discussion, but then ignore our questions!  Does this make sense? Am I missing something? Was her Power Point more important than her clarity?

Like I said before, that was not the only instance of a student being ignored.  A few weeks ago in my Geography class a student ask a VERY litgitmate question, one to which I actually knew the answer. ;)  The Professor basically looked at him, sputtered a few words and went on, completly not answering the student's question.  What is it with these people!  It seems to me that when someone gets a degree they look down on people who do not have the "knowledge" they have.  This has really been nagging at me and I had to get it off my chest. 

Thanks for taking the time to read this, my amassed group of follwers.

--edited briefly by Carrie.