Frustrated!!

You know when you bring a healthy meal replacement shake and two apples for lunch, then you get in the elevator, after going to your car to get the apples because you forgot them, and the elevator smells of French fries (my #1 weakness….yeah that is a graphic depiction of the days I’ve being having as of late, resulting in a mini breakdown yesterday (Sunday!)

I have vented and complained (AKA bitched) a lot on twitter, Facebook, Google +, etc. lately about the teacher we have at present; to be P.C. he is a ‘doctor’ (PhD) not just a teacher.   However, I am not sure which fortune cookie he got his doctorate out of?

I am going to use this Just Write Tuesday to do that – just write about what  it is he does and why he annoys me to a point of tears.  I need to vent and release this so I can move on from this class and attempt to go into the new one, Economics starting on 11/17/11, with an open mind and not pissed off and bitter!!

If you are reading this and don’t know me well, I am doing my MBA program through a leading online university, although I do attend classes in the classroom setting here in Minneapolis.  I am currently doing a class that consists mainly of math concepts, ideas, etc.  The vast majority of it really was a refresher of grade school concepts and growing on them (in a limited manner) to slightly more challenging concepts.  This class is also the prerequisite for all the remaining classes I have yet to do (7 more).

So this brings me to the beginning……. our previous teachers/professors etc. have provided us with the syllabus a least a week prior to class beginning as there is an assignment due at 6pm on the first meeting of the class.  With this instructor we didn’t receive the syllabus until the day of the first class, even after emails to him from a few of us going unanswered.  (Hint One).

So then it’s day one of class, my friend and I were talking about his class policies he’d posted online (That morning of course) stating you could NOT be late for class……what are we in grade school?  There goes the concept of being accommodating to working adults?  SO anyways I always get there early, and we wait…..and wait……6:05pm he walks in!! WTF!!! (Hint Two).

Due to this lack of providing a syllabus and the online math lab thingie not been set up (due to lack of planning on his part of course) the course is pretty much rearranged with new due dates being assigned.  Which seems to be a reason for him to not bother doing any grading of assignments.  Week one took a full week to turn around, the most we’d waited before was 2 or 3 days.  After week two, however, it takes a call to the dean of the campus during week four to get him to do any grading.  I want a job where I can not bother to do any ‘work’ too!!!  (Hint three, four, oh I loose count).

In class, after getting his butt chewed for not doing anything he lectures us on BEING ADULTS and taking responsibility for our actions and going directly to him with questions etc.  Which we’d all done with NO luck as he does not check the online forum (another job requirement) or reply to emails.  Then promises us the materials for our week five assignments on Saturday at the latest, yeah that doesn’t show up until Monday, the Monday of month end!!!  Therefore, I lost all the time I was actually able to do homework on the weekend and somehow had to get it all done ON time even though he was days late???  But……..lets be adults, really??? (Hint like a LOT!!!!!!!!!)

In class he does nothing but refer to us as UNDERGRAD students I guess I was mistaken in my belief that an MBA was a graduate degree, my bad!! In week one I thought he was just mistaken, but he honestly has no idea!!  He tells us repeatedly that he teaches at XXX University to pay his child support, that it’s an ‘extra’ job and basically he proves that over and over again as he does the bare minimum to get by, I actually cannot even say that it’s a bare minimum, I DON’T know how he still has this job?

The final thing (I think) is the fact that he teaches to materials NOT to be covered in the course, topics HE feels are important and in so doing he fails to teach us the materials that were actually covered on the final exam and the requirements for the ‘modified’ assignments he creates are NOT covered in our text books, all of which creates endless amounts of frustration.

Last night, at completion of the final exam, I was so furious I was not able to relay my feelings into words and I have not being this mad in a long, long time!!!  I pay a LOT of money, out of my own pocket (well my Wells Fargo’s student loan ‘pocket’) for this education and I feel I DESERVE to be taught, I deserve to have my assignments, quizzes etc. graded and returned to me within a reasonable amount of time, I deserve to actually learn relevant information that would make me a qualified manager in my career.  Oh heck, I do not only deserve this, I DEMAND IT!!!!! This is a FOR PROFIT institution and by god they should be holding their staff to a higher standard than this.

Ok, I know this was extremely long winded, but as I said earlier, I HAD to get it all off my chest.  This man has really impacted my desire to continue on with my studies and I need to ‘rid’ myself of this negative energy so that I can move onto my next class with a positive frame of mind.  Also I need to remember that I have just one more class before a 6 week break, 3 of which will be spent in sunny South Africa with my partner and family!!!

 

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