Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Students Who Want Everything Easy

I'm deciding what classes to take Spring semester. In the course of searching, I've realized I will probably fail to transfer out of my community college this year, unless the class I need is offered but not listed in the catalog. It's a game of wait and see. I register next week. I don't want to spend another year left behind. I really, really don't.

On the other hand, I'd rather fail a million classes a millions times each than become consumed with transferring to a "reputable" university. The reason I say this is because during the figuring of my classes tonight, I would often use Rate My Professor to determine who's class I should take. You have to listen to every reviewer with one eye open and one eye closed, if you know what I mean, and aggregate the common complaints and compare them to the common praises. Anyway, as I was reading the low reviews of a possible Economics professor, I noticed a lot of them offered the same advice: "DONT TAKE THIS GUY ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET AN A. IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR GPA AND WANT TO TRANSFER TO A GOOD UNIVERSITY LIKE UCLA OR BERKELEY, DON'T TAKE HIM THERE ARE EASIER PROFESSORS". There were more of these than I thought there would be, around a dozen or so. It made me think, then it made me angry. Is that all you care about? Your freaking grade and precious GPA are more important than learning the material and being challenged? The more I thought about it and the more similar reviews I read, the angrier I became. You got your first C in this class? Who cares? Stop blaming everything and everyone but yourself. It's really, really annoying. The one word that immediately describes how I feel is disgust. There's nothing wrong with caring about school and your grades, and even your GPA; but when you start complaining something is too hard for you, that it should be easier for you, that, somehow, you're entitled to get an A even if you never learned a freaking thing, then that's when an anger bubble arises inside me.

2 comments:

  1. I use rate my professor too. It's pretty funny. I guess a lot of people starting out care more about grades than learning. But I think as I get older, I care less about grades and more about learning because I'm like, "Crap, I need to actually know this stuff so I can get a job."

    Where do you want to transfer to?

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  2. I'd like to transfer to UCR, University of California, Riverside. If I don't get that class I need, I might end up going to CSUSB, California State University, San Bernardino, just because I don't want to spend four years at a community college. It's been too long...

    Anyway, as always, I'm glad you commented. Ooh, and you know in your blog when your professor said, "Good work, everybody," but was looking at you? He totally meant you. You're awesome.

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