BLAB SCHOOL!

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My macroeconomics teacher seems much more interested in rote memorization than teaching actual concepts!

Class consists mostly of him calling out a term and someone in the class defining it EXACTLY the way it’s defined in the text or it’s wrong!

It’s like a 19th century blab school!

It’s crazy and completely unacceptable in a college course as far as I’m concerned! I’d drop the class if I didn’t need to pick up the hours so badly.

Anybody else ever encounter something like this in college?

Yeah. Some professors are just weird that way.

What I hate is busy work that's light-years below college level. Like I had a macroeconomics professor make us all go home, look at the tags in the clothes in our closet, and write down where they came from and hand it in next class period. We didn't do anything with the information and it wasn't explained as an example of anything other than the fact that international trade does, indeed, exist. Blah.

And, of course, I had to make up a bunch of stuff for mine because the only store-bought clothes I have with tags in them are my Hanes tagless t-shirts where they're printed on to the fabric. Because I remove the tags from my clothing as soon as I'm sure it fits.

And a lot of my clothing is hand-made, mostly by me, and never had a tag to start with. I did mail-order some clothes from Egypt once (the shipping cost more than the clothes!) so I put that in my report. And I mentioned that I crocheted a coat out of wool I bought from a small breeder in Canada and knitted some socks out of wool that came from Peru. But most of my clothes I have no idea where they came from because I took off the tags right away. I hate those things!

I hear the first year of music is memorizing musical history. I hope I do not experience that.

I took Intro to Theater and it was all just memorizing terms. Ventilation. Door farce. Passion play. Tragedy. etc.

Depends on the class and the professor

Despite the lack of any real teaching, I think I did pretty well on this week's exam--50 multiple choice/ T or F, 5 short answer and 2 essay questions...

So that's one exam down, 5 more to go THIS MONTH!! !

Ahh... the joys of summer school.

That sounds easy. How did you do?

I got an A without even trying but I was bored to tears.

I bet that helped you in theater though

Not really. I took intro to theater because I couldn't get into the class I wanted to get into, which was intro to film and television. That class always got filled up as soon as registration opened to seniors so no one below junior even had a chance of getting in.

My prime interest is film theory and my interest in theater is tangential to that. Plus I already knew every term introduced in that class except "ventilation" and "elevation" and had already read every play assigned in that class except "Death of a Salesman" (which I didn't like anyway.)