This semester in brief:
My International Economics course has been the biggest waste of time in my college career. It's not the subject that annoys me, it's the professor. For the past month we've been doing group presentations so she doesn't have to lecture. She doesn't assign grades for them, and has no system for tracking who has actually done their presentations, so it's obvious she's assigning them so she doesn't have to do anything. Booooooring. She also gave three different multiple choice exams that she royally screwed up the answer key for, and ended up having to toss out 1/4 of the problems on each test.
Behavioral and Experimental Economics has been fun. I conducted an experiment last week. Turns out freshman business majors have some altruistic tendencies (towards each other, anyways).
I don't feel like I've learned anything in my Mathematical Statistics or Real Analysis courses that I couldn't have taught myself. Most of the time I depend on the professor in my math classes to make the material easier to digest so I don't have to spend as much time studying, but I feel like I've been on my own in these classes. Both professors lecture directly from the book without adding much explanation, so I have to spend a lot of time figuring out stuff on my own. Not that I expect upper level math courses to be easy to grasp, but throw me a friggin' bone here. I can copy the book into my notes on my own time!
American literature has been extremely time consuming. Reading stories, writing responses, repeat. It's been enjoyable but I'm ready to get this class over with. It's my last general studies requirement.
Hopefully next semester will be more interesting. Still taking a full load of courses. More math this time: Math Stats II, Regression Analysis, Differential Equations II, Econometrics, Law and Economics, Urban and Regional Economics. Hopefully three statistics-based courses in the same semester won't kill me.
I'm sure it's not thrilling to read this stuff, but it's pretty much all I do nowadays so it's all you get. Sorry!
My International Economics course has been the biggest waste of time in my college career. It's not the subject that annoys me, it's the professor. For the past month we've been doing group presentations so she doesn't have to lecture. She doesn't assign grades for them, and has no system for tracking who has actually done their presentations, so it's obvious she's assigning them so she doesn't have to do anything. Booooooring. She also gave three different multiple choice exams that she royally screwed up the answer key for, and ended up having to toss out 1/4 of the problems on each test.
Behavioral and Experimental Economics has been fun. I conducted an experiment last week. Turns out freshman business majors have some altruistic tendencies (towards each other, anyways).
I don't feel like I've learned anything in my Mathematical Statistics or Real Analysis courses that I couldn't have taught myself. Most of the time I depend on the professor in my math classes to make the material easier to digest so I don't have to spend as much time studying, but I feel like I've been on my own in these classes. Both professors lecture directly from the book without adding much explanation, so I have to spend a lot of time figuring out stuff on my own. Not that I expect upper level math courses to be easy to grasp, but throw me a friggin' bone here. I can copy the book into my notes on my own time!
American literature has been extremely time consuming. Reading stories, writing responses, repeat. It's been enjoyable but I'm ready to get this class over with. It's my last general studies requirement.
Hopefully next semester will be more interesting. Still taking a full load of courses. More math this time: Math Stats II, Regression Analysis, Differential Equations II, Econometrics, Law and Economics, Urban and Regional Economics. Hopefully three statistics-based courses in the same semester won't kill me.
I'm sure it's not thrilling to read this stuff, but it's pretty much all I do nowadays so it's all you get. Sorry!
