Posted by alexandra_k on May 17, 2015, at 0:50:19
In reply to Re: not doing so well, posted by alexandra_k on May 17, 2015, at 0:38:56
i have to do this assignment... and it sucks. it isn't an essay apparently (they failed me last time because 'they didn't want a traditional essay' apparently). so... what do they want? people who do as they say, because they say. because they know what's best - right? because they are trying to train us to graduate study and beyond - right? because they have a better eye to the journals than we do and they are training us to be able to write for journals - right? no to all of the above... it just comes back to... because they say...
things don't make sense. they'll chastise us to 'make sure you grasp the distinction between equity and equality' (for example) but then they will go on in their explanation making it oh so clear that they do not grasp the distinction. saying thinks like 'inequalities are unjust' or 'inequalities are fixable'. mmm hmm. inequities were defined before as UNFAIR inequalities but 1+1 does not equal 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7... None of that is unust. None of that is easily fixable. But 'easily fixable' and 'unjust' I'm supposed to remember for the multi-guess quiz... Unless it doesn't suit you in which case that is the wrong answer. I throw your teaching up the stairs... It doesn't make any sense.
And yet some people do well in the assessment, apparently. The same people who do well in other assessments that are similar? I don't know... Perhaps. Perhaps there is some magic with respect to past questions.... Or perhaps there is some calibration with respect to what the people say and last secondary school attended... I don't know... I just know... Lalalalalalallalalalalalla I can't hear you and I don't want to... Not when you are talking such crap. Honestly...
And my inability to suck it up could be problematic.
We will see, I suppose.
It is back to the tech mentality... Instead of people accepting that the role of their class is a load lightener... Instead of thinking that the aim is to delight and entertain and educate and inspire... Instead of all of that... They think the aim is for them to 'teach people a lesson' or whatever. So... They don't even notice the people who are so very good at nodding and smiling (who would happily exterminate them if they got the chance - full frontal smiles)... Those people are prized over the people who are like 'how can you read that with a straight face? You can see that the author of that article is taking the piss - right?' Only... They can't...
I am so sick of this... I think this is a large part of why people were surprised about the starting over thing. I guess I'd forgotten how... How many fairly crap people are stuck there in early ranks. Making it up means not having those people standing over you any more. These people think they know better than me how to read an academic article and how to write an academic essay (or think that whatever it is that they have set us is more valuable/ worthwhile than an academic essay such that anything that approximates an academic essay, that might actually eb a contrtribution to the field must be swiftly stomped on / failed. Because... That is what we do in academia. Clearly. When you have a non-academic bogus field.
Sigh.
Blech.
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