Tag: personal

POGIL has entirely ruined this course.

I was homeschooled when I was young. Hell, I was UNschooled when I was young. The feeling of wanting to cry every time I had to face the work because I hadn’t been taught it and didn’t understand it is terribly familiar. 

It’s one thing to face that when your teacher is your mum. It’s an entirely different thing to face when you’re paying thousands of dollars of tuition to be taught a concept, and are instead handed a packet and told to teach yourself. 

“In the real world, no-one walks you through problems.” True. But also, they train you and teach you the concepts before setting problems in front of you. I assume any problem I face in my job after uni will be one after university, where I was trained enough to get a degree. Any duties I have above that I should be trained for. No, not every problem is explained, but the concepts the problems are based on should have an adequate base of knowledge. 

I have no base of knowledge for this. This is a second-level course. We’re still building a base of knowledge. This is ridiculous.

Professor C——-l is on my list of Loathsome Individuals that I intend to be better than.