Today has been a very bleah day, for many reasons. Before I start, I'll say that this will not turn into a rant on grades, and I will stick to that, but the blahness mainly is due to grades.
First class was probability/stats. I love the professor and love the class, and my grades on the assignments are totally due to failures on my part. On the first one, I lost a TON of points for not showing any work. On the latest one (just handed back today), I lost a ton of points for not understanding the problems. I'll be sure to study a lot before the exam Monday, but it still depresses me that I'm doing so badly in a easy class. I mean, it's probability. That was my favorite part of 251. Mrr.
Then housing was stupid. One of the locks in Boss was replaced. I went to housing to get my keycard recoded to access the door. "No, we didn't replace any locks," they said, and sent me to the HUB to get a new ID card (free, thankfully). Go back to get it encoded with access and try the Boss door again. No luck. Talk to the lady, she calls some people, and was like, "Oh, apparently they did change the lock, but told me the wrong building. Sorry!" Mrrr. So I lost my old happy ID with the red and green bus stickers for nothing. My new one is depressing with its sole yellow sticker and darker blue background. :(
Then was matrix. My grades on the homework assignments have literally fallen 10 points every assignment (first was 90, then 80, then 70, and the one I got back today was 60). This is not my fault. This is the professor not teaching us the concepts on the homework until the day the homework is due. GAAAH. Stupid, stupid, stupid Tolle.
At least film studies tonight will be fun, although I have a calc exam on Wednesday that I don't feel ready for.
Oh yeah, I also have quite a perverted mind, apparently (along with about half the calc class). When writing the definition of local max/min on the board, he didn't extend the bottom of the "s" in "disk" enough, resulting in:
Definition: f(x,y) has a local maximum at (a,b) if f(x,y)<=f(a,b) for all (x,y) in some dick centered at (a,b).
And then he proceeded to use the following diagram to demonstrate his point:
Much snickering occured. Mrrr.
The best part is he never noticed. Probably still wondering why half the class laughed when he wrote the definition...
In any case, I feel like writing thoughts on my professors so far this semester:
Oded Meyer (36-225): Very competent, and good at lecturing. Assigns homework based on what he teaches. Sounds like his exam will be very fair. Great professor.
Jack Schaeffer (21-259): Good lecturer, although he's going a little too fast for my tastes. Homework assignments are challenging, but useful. Exam sounds a bit difficult (no notes or calculators, and probably no equations given), but it's a difficult class.
John Tolle (21-241): Horrible. Decent at lecturing, but homework assignments cover material not taught yet, and the book doesn't help you learn new concepts. Homework assignments are often unreasonable, even on material previously covered.
Jeff Hinkelman (76-239): Really knows his stuff. Great at teaching film concepts, history, and analysis. Seems fair. Highly recommended.
Stephen Brooks (15-212): Odd. Decent, although he's moving far too slowly for my tastes. I mean, there's no need to spend 7 slides going over how the function works. Tell us. We get it the first time. Obsessed with 42 and Monty Python. Class is good though.
Kunal Ghosh (33-104): Very eccentric. Good at teaching physics, although he can be a bit scatterbrained at times (forgetting to tell us something important, for example). He's very energetic though, and hilarious at times. Great professor.
Last night was good though. Got some more Student Wars cards done. I'm excited about Alliances, and I'm getting hyped up again about RPG Get!, so you might see results in both of those soon (schoolwork permitting).
Oh yeah, and I got more free stuffage today from Adamson Wing. There was soda, cups, and plates there from some lecture thing last night, so I win.
So yeah. Now I'm going to study for calc, do some homework, make dinner, and then go to calc review and film viewing. And then (hopefully) get some sleep by not stressing about grades. Mrrr.
*sigh*
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