AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

[Buttzilla]

GOD i hate professors who use power point to teach! They can squeeze vass amounts of information in such a short period of time and they expect us to know every friggind detail! 6 bio chapters in two weeks and he was actually suprised when the class average was 35 out of a 100 after the first midterm...hahahaha.

so our second midterm is coming around, 7 chapters in 2 weeks...plus to top things off, a research paper due on the day of the midterm. arghh.

this wouldn't be so bad if i wasn't taking ochem, physics, and calculus also. each w/ 3 midterms of their own. i don't even want to mention the lab and the lab work.

here's a :beer: to all you college kids out there. keep up the work and stay strong.

peace...gotta study on halloween weekend.

 

[SWScorch]

I hate that as well, but mostly because I work in the computer lab, managing the print station, and it ticks me off when some doofus prints his professor's powerpoint slides, one slide per page. It takes so long for the printer to process the data and print it, and most of the presentations are like 300 slides. It backs everything up, and then once the job is through, all the backed up prints come pouring out all at once. Grrr @ them.

 

[DrPizza]

Hmmm. Did the college prof assign reading from the book? I'd bet that very few students read the assignment and instead relied upon classroom lectures to learn everything. I've been through college twice. The 2nd with almost a 4.0 throughout. The 2nd time I learned to read what's assigned.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
I hate that as well, but mostly because I work in the computer lab, managing the print station, and it ticks me off when some doofus prints his professor's powerpoint slides, one slide per page. It takes so long for the printer to process the data and print it, and most of the presentations are like 300 slides. It backs everything up, and then once the job is through, all the backed up prints come pouring out all at once. Grrr @ them.

you can't just cancel their job, or give it low priority?

 

[n0cmonkey]

How do you have multiple midterms in 1 class?

 

[Buttzilla]

when everything you need to read is the entire chapter you pretty much have to know everything. this teacher is not like those who put an agenda up at the beginning of each class. with power point slides, he has the ability to shower us with the chapter content in 1 hour.

I'm also going through college for the 2nd time (doing my post bacc) and i'm supriselingly not doing bad. it's just with that amount of information its makes it soo much harder to get an A. anywho, i know suck it up blah blah blah. i guess i do what i gotta do to get into med school.

 

[Buttzilla]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
How do you have multiple midterms in 1 class?

3 midterms a quarter. quarter = 9-10 weekes. so we get a midterm every 2.5 weeks.

 

[SWScorch]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: SWScorch
I hate that as well, but mostly because I work in the computer lab, managing the print station, and it ticks me off when some doofus prints his professor's powerpoint slides, one slide per page. It takes so long for the printer to process the data and print it, and most of the presentations are like 300 slides. It backs everything up, and then once the job is through, all the backed up prints come pouring out all at once. Grrr @ them.

you can't just cancel their job, or give it low priority?

I can't reassign the job while it's printing, so once it's started it's one. I could cancel but that's just mean.

 

[esun]

Damn, and to think I was complaining about my EE teacher busting through a chapter or two every week in just two lectures. That's pretty nuts, though, 7 chapters in two weeks.

 

[virtueixi]

I'm in the same boat. Orgo Chem and Bio. Just keep up with the work and you will do fine and stress out a lot less. GL.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Buttzilla

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
How do you have multiple midterms in 1 class?

3 midterms a quarter. quarter = 9-10 weekes. so we get a midterm every 2.5 weeks.

by definition that is not a midterm, its just a test

you can only have 1 mid term

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Buttzilla

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
How do you have multiple midterms in 1 class?

3 midterms a quarter. quarter = 9-10 weekes. so we get a midterm every 2.5 weeks.

by definition that is not a midterm, its just a test

you can only have 1 mid term

lol tell that to all the profs out there who call them midterms

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Buttzilla

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
How do you have multiple midterms in 1 class?

3 midterms a quarter. quarter = 9-10 weekes. so we get a midterm every 2.5 weeks.

by definition that is not a midterm, its just a test

you can only have 1 mid term

lol tell that to all the profs out there who call them midterms

i know when i was in college it was the same way, we had 2 midterms and a final typically, each counted for 25% and homework/class stuff was the final 25%

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Funny, but my wife is a college bio professor, and uses powerpoint. She also gives tests and gets back lots of 35s. Problem isn't powerpoint, but that the students don't study. Go figure.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Funny, but my wife is a college bio professor, and uses powerpoint. She also gives tests and gets back lots of 35s. Problem isn't powerpoint, but that the students don't study. Go figure.

this is true

and I personally loved profs that used PPT, i thought it was an easier way of getting the info across, also most of them let you DL the PPT, so you coudl use it to study, or learn from it if you missed a day

 

[whoiswes]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Funny, but my wife is a college bio professor, and uses powerpoint. She also gives tests and gets back lots of 35s. Problem isn't powerpoint, but that the students don't study. Go figure.

this is true

and I personally loved profs that used PPT, i thought it was an easier way of getting the info across, also most of them let you DL the PPT, so you coudl use it to study, or learn from it if you missed a day

or the last six weeks of the semester...

/hey, it was o-chem, the teacher put me to sleep.
/still got a b+
/meh

 

[Evadman]

I took Physics & CIS & Some EE @ ISU. Nothing like fighting with your counselor for 24 credit hours a semester. I feel your pain.

 

[whoiswes]

Originally posted by: Evadman
I took Physics & CIS & Some EE @ ISU. Nothing like fighting with your counselor for 24 credit hours a semester. I feel your pain.

hey, i'm a cyclone alum myself!!! MIS/Genetics double degree in five.

don't miss it though (except the 'riots'...)

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Funny, but my wife is a college bio professor, and uses powerpoint. She also gives tests and gets back lots of 35s. Problem isn't powerpoint, but that the students don't study. Go figure.

I find many professors use PPT to mask their lack of teaching ability. My most fascinating profs rarely use PPT. I have also learned the least from PPT. People say it is good for missing a class, but most of the time it is useless, after the fact, IMHO. Not to say that all bad profs use PPT or PPT means a bad PPT, but there is a tendancy.

I think that engaging the students creates the best learning environment, not merely reading slides word for word (what I have experienced).

 

[nmcglennon]

Sounds like my Genetics prof. Except we actually learn things.

 

[Sukhoi]

I simply hate PPT because the professors either only put an overview on the slides and expect you to vigorously condense and write down what they are saying, or they put all the info on the slides and then go through it too fast to comprehend it and write it down.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
I simply hate PPT because the professors either only put an overview on the slides and expect you to vigorously condense and write down what they are saying, or they put all the info on the slides and then go through it too fast to comprehend it and write it down.

Digital REcordsers were great for that crap when I was in college.