Mark Twain famously said “don’t let your schooling interfere with your education”. I agree. Of the 3 years thus far that I have spent in college I have learned a great deal about the world and even more importantly about myself. Yet none of this learning has occurred in a classroom. Let me say this again, NONE HAS OCCURRED IN THE CLASSROOM
I am paying thousands of dollars a year for pencil pushers behind desks to find loopholes and ways to keep me from learning. I’m not trying to find an easy way out. In fact anyone who knows me knows that I usually pick the hardest way possible. But seriously guys, wtf?
Why has is become so difficult to do simple things? Why have we lost touch with what actually matters? Why has the system become so wound up in itself that it forgets that people are actually here to get an education? Teachers get so concerned with making the classes harder so that it is not possible to skate by that they fial to realize they are making it impossible for people to learn. There should be no such thing as a weed out class that is hard for the sake of being hard. Who remembers the phylum class and order of a nematode from their freshman bio class? And if they did would it help them do anything? Ever?
I am sick and tired of having the requirements that I am instructed to fulfill changed while I am working to complete them. I have had several classes that I worked very hard to get good grades in simply cease to count for anything. And why? Simply because some pencil pushing dean of nothing in particular thinks she can change the requirements of a major she can barely pronounce.
The last time this happened to me I left the dean’s office with a gash in my hand because I slammed my fist so hard on a pen that it shattered into my hand. This time I will be a bit more controlled, but I have little hopes for an intelligent person in the office I must visit. We’ll see…
