Sense and Sensibility?

[mothwing]

The first week of semester, featuring:

• my ticket still not having arrived
  
• someone deciding that 48 students is a good size for a frggin' advanced seminar (you know, the one with all the really focused work on the more difficult theoretical texts and all)
  
• a particularly bright Professor not even limiting the number of people she'd admit to her course, which resulted in 186 friggin' people showing up ("Joa. OK. Dann werde ich mal die, äh, Anwesenheitsmatrix rumgeben.")
  
• the particularly bright Professor deciding to just admit EVERYONE.
• an idiot deciding that a room cut out for about 20 people (at least twenty people if you think that students need desks) is a good size for a seminar of 55.
  
• me learning that the deadline for finding an internship for the summer and doing that bloody integrated seminar is not in May, as I was SURE it was, but NEXT FRIDAY. Yaaay.
  

On the UP side: we have new computers. Not MORE computers, but they replaced the old, working ones with new ones.

Yeah. Progress.

I really, really don't want to pay this university ANYTHING for a situation like this.

And it's not really going to get better, because it's anyone's guess where the money we pay them goes. Certainly not to the departments.

Comments

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Oxford?!! I hate him. Seriously.

I mean, I think that the British elite Unis do go over the top sometimes, they do have one on one tutorials and I don't really think that's good for getting people to discuss however intensive it is, but everyone, everyone with an ounce of brain knows that it's ludicrous to expect people to seriously work with these course sizes.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

One on one tutorials?? Goodness...

The introduction course I'm doing tutor for consists of 16 people. That's 8 per tutor. It's great.