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01/18/2006: "Stupid professors..."
Song of the Day: James Marsters - Rest In Peace
Today, after initially liking my Crim Pro prof, I came to the conclusion that he's an idiot.
He informs us during our first class that we will be needing to buy a remote control clicker thing to answer multiple choice questions with during each class. He says that there are three classes experimenting with this "new technology" (new my ass, I've been pointing a damn remote at my TV for my entire life) and that it will take the place of taking attendance every day. At the beginning of every class, we'll answer 2 to 4 multiple choice questions with the clicker, and that it will make up 20% of our grade. At first, I was intrigued, since this is the first non-Legal-Writing class I've had that includes something other than the exam in the final grade.
And then I went to purchase and register the damn thing. Not only was it $21 to purchase, but it was also another $15 to register it for the semester. $36 for something we could all write out on a goddamn piece of paper and turn in! $36 for answering 2 to 4 questions a day! What sort of crack was he smoking when he decided this would be a good thing? Is it supposed to save him time, so that he doesn't have to go through all the quizzes and grade them by hand? Is the half hour it takes him to do that really worth my $36? And if that's the case, why doesn't he just stick with taking attendance like he said he normally did? Not to mention, at the end of the semester, I'll be stuck with a $21 piece of plastic that doesn't do anything anymore, unless I get another brilliant professor next semester who decides to use it too. Which would cost me another $15.
I swear, I can't wait until people start paying me to do inane things, like testing "new technology" for them. Every day, I start agreeing with the sentiment that school can't be over soon enough.
Replies: 4 Comments
That is really strange. I've never heard of using a remote in class. It's not like it's a game show and you have to "buzz in"; it's a classroom!Toni, Thursday, January 19th
I had to use one last semester, but you know that. It's a pain and if you're prof is anything like mine, he'll use it twice and never mention it again.DPearl, Friday, January 20th
You ever see that episode of the Simpsons where the church got bought my Burns and it got turned into a corporate business .... schools are kinda like that now.FOo, Friday, January 20th
So wait, how does it work? Click once for yes and twice for no?Lindsay, Sunday, January 29th