Armored Prayer said:
I never skipped class.
I mean what the hell was I going to do while skipping. At least I do something productive in class.
You obviously go to a college where professors aren't full of themselves and don't like to hear themselves talk.
For my required 400 level liberal arts synthesis course, I am taking Alchemy and Magic(I thought it would interesting and easy). At my university, these required liberal arts synthesis courses are set up and mostly taught as easy breeze through classes for seniors about to graduate, but the professor I have that teaches the Alchemy and Magic class, is normally a French professor and she teaches it like her French classes, meaning she assigns a crap load of repetitive short answer questions over the readings. She assigned them for the majority of the semester, until I believe that most of the class(Including me) stopped doing them. The problem I and most students have with work like that, is that it actually makes us not read the reading assignments, we just end up skimming the books to find the answers to the short answer questions, so that we don't end up taking forever to do the class work.
When we started the class, she tacked on Mysticism to the Alchemy and Magic. We got a definition of Magic on the second day of class, and we haven't talked about Magic since then. She mainly just talks about Mythology, Cults, and Religions. Historically what she has covered: We started with Ancient Greece then went to Rome, we skipped over the Dark and Middle ages(Obviously because she didn't want to talk about magic) and went straight to the Renaissance, now we are into the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sorry about this rant, now to get to the non-productive and not related to the class stuff: Last class period we had on last Wednesday, we watched a DVD of "The Elegant Universe" the part about String Theory. Yes I found it interesting, but was it productive to what the class is suppose to be about? Hell no!
We have a big end of term paper due on Monday and a presentation to go with it a little later. I chose to do it on Merlin because I needed to research and learn about something that actually relates to the class, and Merlin is awesome. Yes we are in a class about magic in history and literature, and we haven't talked about magic or Merlin.
Me and this other guy, on the last day of class are going to tell her that we were disappointed with the class, because we didn't get to learn how to throw a fireball.
Out of all the classes I have taken, not counting the required math and science classes. In all the classes, I would say about 95% of each class wasn't productive or had to do with the actual class. Well I can't say that about the first university I went to and got my Associates in English at, before I transferred to where I am now. That university actually had professors that actually cared if you passed or failed and would work with and bargain with you to help you pass the classes.
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On Topic: Because of the way classes are where I am now, I have used every single unexcused absence day that we are allowed. When I do skip, I am usually on here, writing on my many personal literary works, or playing video games.
