The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[catmom46]

That's what I thought. I'm not going to the Associate Dean immediately. I want to talk to one of my professors who is head of the psychology department since she might have some guidance on how to handle the situation; I have her later today for a gen ed course, and it's a small class, so we know each other really well. I also want to give the professor a chance to correct the situation (a curve or a retest). But if he's done nothing to correct the situation, guess I will be paying the associate dean a visit. The good thing is that the associate dean had me last semester, knows I work hard, and I'm in her Business Administration Honors Society, so if I come in with the feedback on the professor, she'll know I'm not just being ridiculous.

I find you get bad professors in every field. I had an awesome accounting professor, but a lot of the students come in for tutoring with their material and I'm thinking "What are your professors doing?" Whereas my professor sends all of his students who need extra help to me (there are three accounting peer tutors; he doesn't trust the other two so when his students say they need tutoring, he sends them to me.) Know how many of his students I've seen this semester? Two. One appointment each. So very few of his students even need tutoring. There seem to be two professors in particular who have a high amount of students in tutoring. My professor also tutors (not his own students) in levels of accounting that have no peer tutors. He doesn't care about getting paid; he does it because he wants students to succeed. Awesome professor; I was fortunate to have him for both accounting semesters.

There's also a difference between professors who just aren't that great, but still want you to succeed. Statistics, for instance. That professor would basically quickly run through the book material. Then we would have these review days to go over what we did not know. My thought: How the am I supposed to know what I don't know? The sessions were basically students attempting problems, maybe asking a question here or there, until one student decided, "I'm blowing this Popsicle stand" and got up and left. Then the whole class would file suit. But there were resources there for students to achieve. I went and got a tutor. The professor offered to have our final exam score replace our lowest score for another test. He was interested in us achieving. I thought after the first week of classes that this professor delighted in telling students they are wrong. I should learn to trust my gut.

That's a good idea to speak to the other professor first, especially if you have a good rapport with her. And of course giving the professor an opportunity to correct the situation is smart, too. Hopefully he'll come to his senses!

 

[betty rose]

Yes it would!
The Bluebonnets and all the other wildflowers are very pretty here in the spring...!

I love Texas, hubby and I vacationed in Austin, and loved the river walk. We also vacationed in Corpus Christi, you have a beautiful State. I saw some blue bonnets when we came in the early spring. I love that lady bird Johnson, had all those planted. No political statement...I just love blue bonnets.

 

[betty rose]

Come out come out wherever you are! Miss ya!

Ditto, we do miss you!

 

[betty rose]

I've watched TV in bed for years. It also helps me unwind too but it also distracts my brain from going off into thoughts of the day. I can turn on Friends or Gilmore Girls and think of nothing else. I usually wake up to Sponge Bob and flip over to the news.

I understand, if I listened to the ringing in my ears, yes it's in my deaf ear....Doc say's we have a brain memory for sounds. Even after losing hearing. I still hear those sounds in my deaf ear..... So I always put on a sound machine....the ocean, or the T.V. weather channel, when it plays music. I've been know to go asleep with a controller in my hand and ordered things in my sleep.

 

[betty rose]

Mine's the one in front. We had a very light coating a few weeks back so I'm good for the year

I used all three of my hands!

 

[betty rose]

Sane? we're allowed to be sane??? Quick I need a check up from the neck up, I have insurance LOL

I was always the "black sheep" in my family. We had very hard rules. I always looked at the other side, religion, politics, and lifestyles. I've always lived by the rule, live and let live. It will all work out in the end.

 

[French Quarter]

I'm a more than a little worried about that one, it sounds like it can be either good or really bad

The preview I saw looks pretty promising. It is still as beautiful as Finding Nemo was, which sucked me in right away.

 

[French Quarter]

Best part beans are done in the slow cooker and rice in the rice cooker

Can't beat those appliances! Speaking of...my new rice cooker was supposed to be here yesterday. I suppose I should follow up on that. Had to cook my wild rice in a pot tonight and I suck at that. Came out mushy.

 

[betty rose]

Oh to be the fly on the wall.

I'm in, include me in your parties! By the way, your TR's are the funniest ever. Tell Phil, if you guys don't go to Disney, there will be a revolt on Chit Chat!

 

[French Quarter]

We had burgers. I looked at every produce stand at the market today and there was no spaghetti squash, so couldn't do spaghetti. Boo.

Boo indeed. I think squash has already had its season here. I did get to try the spaghetti squash once. I did it with parmesan cheese and it was to die for. I'll be doing it again next year!

I bet the burgers were tasty though?

 

[betty rose]

They're quite easy sew together the pieces for each set. Place the pants right sides together sew around the waist at the top. Mark casing for waist elastic, sew leaving opening for elastic. Insert elastic, stitch elastic at ends, close the opening you left. Fold up bottom of legs to desired length and top stitch. It's easier to do than explain LOL

Are you speaking a foreign language? This is how I understand this. I'm glad we all have different talents. Makes the world go round.

 

[betty rose]

Sane? we're allowed to be sane??? Quick I need a check up from the neck up, I have insurance LOL

I've had my check up. I'm declared mentally sane.

 

[FutureCEO]

The preview I saw looks pretty promising. It is still as beautiful as Finding Nemo was, which sucked me in right away.

So happy. Finding Nemo is my second best Pixar movie after Toy Story. The new love affair with sequels is killing me though. Cars. Monsters. Incredibles.

 

[French Quarter]

I'm usually not into movies like The Godfather, but, I must say I like all 3.
And, I also pretty much like on up through Rocky IV.

Haven't ventured to the Godfather yet as this isn't my typical genre but I'm sure it's great. I strayed away from Rocky for a long time thinking that I wouldn't like a fighting movie. I wish I had discovered it sooner. Such a great underdog and human story.

 

[betty rose]

The preview I saw looks pretty promising. It is still as beautiful as Finding Nemo was, which sucked me in right away.

I'm a softie, I cried at this.

 

[betty rose]

So happy. Finding Nemo is my second best Pixar movie after Toy Story. The new love affair with sequels is killing me though. Cars. Monsters. Incredibles.

Did you see the latest report on all the TV series coming back? About 90 of them. Is no creativity allowed anymore?

 

[betty rose]

Thank you. I thought so, but I thought I'd better check. Dad has never had much concept of time. He'd say he'd come to pick us up at 9:00 and show up at 2:00 in the afternoon. And then he worked nights for decades, so his whole time schedule was kind of turned around anyway. Since his retirement, he doesn't really have to pay much attention to time. He eats when he's hungry, sleeps when he's tired, and unless he has an appointment somewhere, he doesn't look at a clock. So I figure he must have just missed it.

I'm afraid that I do that too. After working years, always watching the clock...I don't do that anymore. It's so nice not to have to pay attention to anything, but appointments, and stomach!

 

[betty rose]

They guys my dh works with decided to do a healthy day on Friday and everybody has to make a healthier version of what they're bringing in so here goes
DH I'm bringing in coleslaw
Me guess we're going to the store tomorrow
DH what goes in it
Me I thought you have to make it, so why did you pick something you don't know how to make
DH Tossed salad was already taken
Me

That's so funny, my hubby would go to McDonald's and order several side salads. He only comes to the kitchen to eat!

 

[betty rose]

On a serious note, I could use some thoughts on this situation:

Y'all know I've been complaining about Finance right? (well, if not, I've been complaining about Finance).

Well, today, we got test grades back from our second test. My first test grade was a 75. I asked my professor about it, and he said it was "good". Maybe with a 15 point curve it would be good. Today, he gave us back our other tests. I thought I had done well, but I had gotten a 70. Another student complained to the professor about how poorly the class had done. The student asked the class who had gotten a 70 or above on the test. Know how many students raised their hands? Three, including me. So the majority of the class got a D or failed. D's do not get degrees. The professor's response was essentially that it couldn't be his fault and that everyone wasn't trying hard enough. A student countered saying that he had done about 15 hours of preparation for this test, in groups and on his own, only to fail. Not only that, but several of us approached the professor about the last problem on the test. While the general concept had been covered in the class, the specifics on that last problem had not been covered. As a result, most of the class, minus one or two people, did not get the correct answer on the last problem. The professor basically indicated that it couldn't possibly be his fault and that this was the stupidest group of people that he had ever taught in his entire life. The class average was just above a 60. When I asked about a curve, he basically said he might have thought about it if none of us had complained.

I'm not overreacting am I? This does not seem like it is our fault. What's more, I feel like writing a letter or speaking to an Associate Dean about this class because otherwise, it seems like a large number of students will fail or not be able to move on in the program.

I had this happen with a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, out of 700 students, only two passed with a C, the rest got a D or worse. He was the worst professor I ever had. I would just have it taken off my record and find a reasonable professor. I did that and got an "official" A for that class. I lost a semester of "charges" for the class, but it was much better for my record to have an A instead of a D.

 

[betty rose]

I had an undergraduate professor like that - he gave a test and the highest grade was 68. Most people flunked the test, the rest were obviously D's. He then proceeded to tell us how stupid we were and how he learned this stuff in the second grade and we should all drop out of school because we were morons and didn't deserve to be there. I hated him.

It's awful how many people experience this.