Okay this is me venting about some of my professors....
~You can not just all the sudden say hey i didnt get through everything today so i think we will have class on friday, ill post the room on frontier (blackboard) once i have it booked. No! we dont have class on friday and you cant create another day for class because you couldnt get through everything! that is not the way it works! i had plans for friday morning...sleeping until 2 or 3. getting up for a 9am lecture is not included in my plans!
~You cant cancel class because your sick and then say since i was sick we need to make up that lecture...how does 9am on friday work for you? good, ill get a room and let you know which one. NO IM NOT FREAKING AVAILABLE FOR A LECTURE AT 9am ON FRIDAY! ARE YOU INSANE?! it does not work that way, you were sick you cant make up that lecture, you need to combine it with the next one or cut a lecture out...you cant go and make it up another day, we do have lives and have better things to do than go to class and hear a lecture on educational research cases studies!
~There is no freaking way i can put together a 5 min presentation on a case study that im going to write when i have yet to conduct the study or observation! what am i supposed to talk about? hi im michaela mapes and im going to see what methods middle school teachers use in the math or science classrooms...except i dont know which one because i have yet to be assigned a school where i have to conduct like 20 hours of observations and the semester is already half way over! that concludes my presentation. you are freaking insane?!
~thank you for listening to my absolutely boring presentation on school boards in america that i happen to copy and paste to a powerpoint slide from my notes from last semester. i would also like to thank you for your feedback that you orally told me in front of the class...all of your likes and dislikes of my presentation. thank you for asking the one question i cant answer...no one can answer why rich people are on school boards. i dont know they got nominated and then appointed or voted on. how should i know im barely old enough to vote. i guess its because the poorer population doesnt turn out to vote or no one really gives a shit because either way the poorer schools are screwed and dont get the funding they need. does that answer your question? no, okay well that is all i have for you. and that concludes my presentation.
~it is not appropriate to talk about naked dancers at a school function. you just made every single student in the classroom feel very uncomfortable. if you are trying to relate to us...DONT! that was a horrible attempt and now everyone wishes that you would just leave them alone. BY THE WAY KELSEY AND I ARE NOT INTERESTED IN BEING THE CHAIRMAN OF THE POT-OF-LUCK DINNER PARTY THAT YOU WANT NAKED DANCERS AT! im still uncomfortable and wish i was at home or at least that you would stop staring at me. i understand what you are saying and no i do not want to be the chairman of your naked dancer party!
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
To My Dearest Neighbors...
To my dearest neighbors who live above me,
I'll let you in on a little secrete, I do not have a 6 am wake up call. So could you please turn your alarm down. I'm glad that you get such an early start to the day, but could you please not listen to the radio or watch tv so loud at 8 am? Some people do try to sleep past 8. Also, do you mind not laughing at all of those funny jokes so late at night? I mean, I'm always up for a good knee-slapping-joke, but could you please keep you guffawing to an inside level? That would be graciously appreciated. Here is a tip for you, do not rearrange your furniture so often. It messes up the feng shui of your room, and I cant fall asleep when you do such activities in the middle of the night. It is also not good to drag your furniture, you really should pick it up, dragging it could make really loud noises. One last thing, has your mother or father ever told you that bouncing balls is an outside activity or should be done at the gym? Since I know there is no gym or court in your room (all rooms are the same, have not been in their room) you need to take it outside. I'm only telling you this because your mother is not here so I thought I should say what she would tell you...Your not the only one living in this building, and I really hope your not loud Americans, that just makes it all the worse! If you are American, you are the reason why Europeans hate Americans, you are to loud!
Signed your neighbor from down below
I'll let you in on a little secrete, I do not have a 6 am wake up call. So could you please turn your alarm down. I'm glad that you get such an early start to the day, but could you please not listen to the radio or watch tv so loud at 8 am? Some people do try to sleep past 8. Also, do you mind not laughing at all of those funny jokes so late at night? I mean, I'm always up for a good knee-slapping-joke, but could you please keep you guffawing to an inside level? That would be graciously appreciated. Here is a tip for you, do not rearrange your furniture so often. It messes up the feng shui of your room, and I cant fall asleep when you do such activities in the middle of the night. It is also not good to drag your furniture, you really should pick it up, dragging it could make really loud noises. One last thing, has your mother or father ever told you that bouncing balls is an outside activity or should be done at the gym? Since I know there is no gym or court in your room (all rooms are the same, have not been in their room) you need to take it outside. I'm only telling you this because your mother is not here so I thought I should say what she would tell you...Your not the only one living in this building, and I really hope your not loud Americans, that just makes it all the worse! If you are American, you are the reason why Europeans hate Americans, you are to loud!
Signed your neighbor from down below
Monday, March 15, 2010
Papers in Norway
So in Norway teachers don't give you your papers back with comments, in fact most teachers don't even give you your paper back. You just receive a grade and then you have two weeks to make an appointment with whomever graded your paper. At this appointment the teacher or whomever graded your paper will give you a list of what they liked and didn't like about your paper. If you disagree with your grade you can "complain" about it. All you have to do is fill out a form and then someone new will grade your paper and whatever that new person gives you is what you get. They can give you a higher grade, same grade, or lower grade.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. In a way I like it, I have a say in my grade. But at the same time I feel like what the teacher says doesn't matter, its whatever the third party thinks. I think I'll just leave my grade up to my teacher, I don't think he's a hard grader, he is very lenient.
I only have to complain about the lack of direction the teacher gives you here. The only requirements for my papers is 10 pages, 12 pt font, 1.5 spacing, and then a broad topic such as it has to do with inclusion or comparing an aspect of two countries educational systems. I need a narrower topic range, where do you even begin? So for my inclusion paper I'm going to write about segregation in the OPS school district. For my comparison paper I'm going to us the US as one of my countries, but I think I'll narrow it down to Nebraska and then I guess I'll use Norway since it will be easy to get information about it. My only problem is what do I write about? I really don't know all that much about the Norwegian school systems. Ohh well I'll figure something out, most likely will do some making up on my part but thats okay.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. In a way I like it, I have a say in my grade. But at the same time I feel like what the teacher says doesn't matter, its whatever the third party thinks. I think I'll just leave my grade up to my teacher, I don't think he's a hard grader, he is very lenient.
I only have to complain about the lack of direction the teacher gives you here. The only requirements for my papers is 10 pages, 12 pt font, 1.5 spacing, and then a broad topic such as it has to do with inclusion or comparing an aspect of two countries educational systems. I need a narrower topic range, where do you even begin? So for my inclusion paper I'm going to write about segregation in the OPS school district. For my comparison paper I'm going to us the US as one of my countries, but I think I'll narrow it down to Nebraska and then I guess I'll use Norway since it will be easy to get information about it. My only problem is what do I write about? I really don't know all that much about the Norwegian school systems. Ohh well I'll figure something out, most likely will do some making up on my part but thats okay.
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