Some people may have various complaints about the program that I’m going through. Most of these I don’t pay any attention to, but there is one that I’m not to crazy about. My Information Technologies Management class is being taught by another graduate student. This grad student who I will call “Greg” has no dots in teaching (fans of White Wolf would understand the reference). There are several problems with this. First Greg has just explained to us that he has been grading our papers strictly and that despite the complaints there have been a handful of people that have turned in excellent papers. The rest of us are average, because after all most people are average. This goes against some basic facts, all of us are enrolled in a difficult post-graduate program which in turn makes most of us at least a little above average. I’m not being arrogant here, but he is belittling the entire group by calling us average. Second, the scores have been average because he has scored our papers with a couple really high grades and a lot of very low scores. The problem with the scores has been that there haven’t been sufficient comments to understand the grade. This is best exampled by the fact that almost all of us have been getting our papers back and throwing it right in the trash. A grade is just a number unless we all know how we got the grade and as far as we all know he is picking a number out of a hat and handing it to us.
There is another tough weekend for me, our business plan is due for class. The entire business plan isn’t actually due for two more months for the university but one of our professors is grading it and decided that we needed to have it in Tuesday. Also two finance tests, Japanese, and of course another couple of IT papers. Here I was planning to relive my youth my going to the beach all day, and watching Robotech all night.
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