Monday, November 13, 2006
Lose money lectures
Every Monday morning, I get up between 5-5:30 so I can make it to the gym, and attend the 8am lecture. On Monday’s I gage whether the 8:00 lectures are worth attending for the week because generally, it’s the same professor lecturing on their prospective material. Last week we began our nutrition course. Before the course began I was excited to expand upon what I believe to be a decent foundation in nutrition. Considering I have spent a lot of time reading about this stuff during my leisure, and growing up in a slightly orthorexic household with a mother who was a former childbirth educator (I've been lectured on breast feeding since I was 5), I've already been exposed to a large amount of the material. After last Monday’s assessment of the lecture material and presentation I decided to forgo the 8am lecture as it was an introduction to the material, and more or less common sense, and a lot of material I had already learned either individually or through other courses. This morning’s lecture was utterly unbearable. The professor showed up 10 min. late, and clearly unprepared to deliver his material. I often become annoyed when nothing can be added to the material being presented from the slides – what is the point of lecture then? This is not a subject that requires clarification, or attention to visual details – it’s based on experimentation and facts. I appreciate when a professor can infuse humor into a lecture when it is pertinent to the material, otherwise I don’t want to hear it. If I leave a lecture feeling that I could’ve presented the material better than the professor did, then yes, I’m pissed off because 50 min of my time was just wasted. This is a very expensive professional school, and with it I demand professionalism and excellence from my educators - is that so much to ask?
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4 comments:
please don't tell me that the nutrition prof was fat? now there's a waste of money! maybe you should hold some nutrition classes on the side and make some money.
No, he definitely wasn't fat, he just couldn't articulate himself very well. At this level, English as a second language isn't an excuse (I have many excellent professors with nice thick accents, that give good lectures). I just got super irritated when he was trying to say that formula-fed babies grew better than breast-fed babies when he meant to say fatter or bigger (I'm incredibly anal when it comes to terminology).
Ok what's this nonsense about orthoexic!! Good lord another drug company rep trying to turn healthy eating into a disease that they can treat with a hugely expensive pill.
haha, I totally agree!
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