UMUC

[andysocial]

This is the kind of sophomoric tripe I am enmeshed in whenever I deal with UMUC's class online:

..., whose thoughts and emotions deserves to be validated.

Oh, come on! Validation? What a bunch of amateurish, armchair psychobabble.
Here's another good one:

I enjoy my English classes expect (sic) for the fact that I have to write so much.

That's like saying you like your mathematics class, except for those pesky equations and numbers. What is wrong with these people?

Comments

[rillifane.livejournal.com]

What is wrong with these people?

They are ignorant little jackasses who, in a world in which standards had not been lowered to the point where a college education today is considerably less difficult to achieve than an 10th grade education back in the 1960's, would be working as toilet attendants.

[laruth.livejournal.com]

Well Said ;)


I have to deal with something similar where my students complain that they have to do work in class as well as outside class.

*sighs*

Home work

[andysocial]

I used to get a lot of crap from my students when I taught for the military, mostly about off-duty expectations. "You mean we have to do homework?" Um, duh?

Re: Home work

[laruth.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

I can understand students being slack (to some degree - I got to admit that I wasn't always so hardworking as a student myself ;), but to be that lazy is scary. Very scary.

Aaaarmy Training!

[andysocial]

One of the benefits of being a military instructor was our range of disciplinary options. I'm sure you can't make your students do pushups, nor can you make them come into study hall at specified times in a specific set of clothing (uniforms are so embarassing when you're the only one not in civvies). In those extreme cases, some of them even lost pay for being recalcitrant scofflaws.

[andysocial]

I particularly enjoy the stupifying amount of mispellings and abysmal grammar, when this is supposed to be a Junior-level English class. Damn, I wish I'd been able to go to college 13 years ago; maybe I'd not be so annoyed by morons then.

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[ursulasgirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well.

Are you certain that the 300 level courses are junior level courses? At my local Cal State, most of the "serious, er academic courses" (as the graduate adviser so eloquently stated) are 400 level courses. Not that that would solve your little problem...but.... [note final period]

Ellipsis

[andysocial]

Every so often, the "four dots" rule resurfaces in my life. :-)

As for the class level, they reference "if you are a junior or senior" in the intro, so it's assumed you probably aren't, but possibly are. Meanwhile, they don't have any 500-numbered courses, so my assumption was obvious. Besides, most of my classmates are my age or older, hardly straight out of school; my presumption there is that you've been using English for a while now, perhaps you can spell such tough words as "were" and "except" but I'm proven wrong all too often.