I've only been back to school for less then a week, and I'm already reminded just how frustratingly pointless some school assignments and expectations can be. Right now, I'm taking a few online college classes, and for one of them I am expected to spend six hours a week on the schoolwork. Like, I actually get a grade for spending so much time each week on this class. I was annoyed at first, but now I'm downright frustrated because I finished all of this week's work in two hours, which means that I have to come up with another four hours worth of nonsense to do for this class. They say that this is so that the class will be more 'fair', so that students who may work faster still have to work for the same amount of time as those who take longer. How is it fair that just because I go through material quickly I have to then find my own way to continue doing the work even though I already finished all of it? Has anybody else had any ridiculous school assignments?
anything involving my finance class. my teacher gives us at least 10 new formulas every class and we have to have them down by the test date no one understands what the hell we're doing
Yikes, that's really bad. My Journalism teacher (yes my high school offers a Journalism course) has us read ten articles online every week and submit them to her. That's not so bad, but it is the most annoying thing I have this year.
My algebra one teacher gave us the notes, a worksheet to go with it, and left a key in the front of the classroom, but nearly everyone went up there and copied off of the key and then we were pretty much able to do whatever we wanted...even scream out cuss words and the teacher wouldn't do anything... Anyway, all the worksheets were easy and pure busy work...I didn't learn anything in that class...
Probably my Community Project. Doing the services was actually pretty fun, but I did pretty much 75% of the work including all the writing(I had two other group mates). We were supposed to attend 3 service sessions, and my group mates attended only one of the three, whereas I went to all three of them. Our communication was terrible and doing most the work myself was extremely stressful, but at least we got a good score.
When I was in high school a hated the group assignments so, so much. I'm one of those people that prefers to do things on my own, so being paired up with other people was incredibly frustrating for me. I especially hated when some of the team mates would rush ahead, and myself -not being the smartest or fastest of people when it came to schoolwork- would be left far behind in my work and super stressed out because of it. I lost so much sleep over those darn things. I'd take an in-class test any day over those assignments...
A lot of things get on my nerves, but I'll tell two in particular. In college I had an English 1-0-something class in which one of our assignments was to essentially create an image board of our life in x number of years, with one catch: pictures only, no words. Umm, excuse me, no words? In an English class? In college? That entire semester was a waste of gas and tuition money. The other instance is math classes in there will be big, scary, complicated problems that come out to equal one or zero. Yes, I understand the irony of me disliking zero, but I absolutely hate it because it feels like an unnecessarily complicated waste of time. It's your fault, textbook writer, that this was a problem. It didn't need to be one.
