Sorry, I gotta rant about this, bear with me.
In my Advanced Systems Analysis and Design class we just had a midterm the week before last, no problem there, got an A. Well, I go to class the other day, and our professor tells us we are having another midterm next week! That's barely three weeks between midterms! WTF? When did midterms become damn near a twice a month thing? This latest midterm in on chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 in one of our books, 4, 5, and 7 in another (the books totally contradict each other at times too, but that's another story), and all the prof's lecture notes. Oh, and you can't really call the lecture notes, lecture notes, because they really aren't associated with any lectures. They are just pdf documents in the form of lecture notes that he lets us print out, but he rarely, if ever, lectures on them. So basically you have a bunch of thoughts on a page, with no explanation to go with them. So if that isn't confusing enough, the two books are filled with complex system modeling techniques that we haven't not even touched on in class, nor do we have time to before the midterm, because we spend 90% of class time either interviewing for our mock Systems Analysis case, or listening to the professor tell stories completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
I'm am completely baffled why the prof has to cram another midterm in just three weeks after the first, just so he can get it in before spring break. It's stupid, and leaves the students completely unprepared. He tells us we will be tested on the system modeling techniques we've learned, but yet he has yet to teach a single technique in class. Not one! Oh, of course we've heard how nice India is to visit, how African women have the prettiest eyes, how the campus was organized 40 years ago, and we've learned the complete history of the San Francisco 49ers, but we have yet to learn one damn modeling technique! Yet these techniques, and a bunch of other random facts on SA&D will be all over this "midterm". Ugh. The crazy thing about this professor is, he's confusing, has bad test practices, and is not that great a teacher, yet he is the nicest professor I have ever had by far.
Does anyone else have midterms so frequently? Doesn't the word midterm imply that you would have this test at the middle of the term? How does it suddenly become a three time a semester occurrence, in addition to a final?
OK, sorry guys rant off, sorry this was so long.
In my Advanced Systems Analysis and Design class we just had a midterm the week before last, no problem there, got an A. Well, I go to class the other day, and our professor tells us we are having another midterm next week! That's barely three weeks between midterms! WTF? When did midterms become damn near a twice a month thing? This latest midterm in on chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 in one of our books, 4, 5, and 7 in another (the books totally contradict each other at times too, but that's another story), and all the prof's lecture notes. Oh, and you can't really call the lecture notes, lecture notes, because they really aren't associated with any lectures. They are just pdf documents in the form of lecture notes that he lets us print out, but he rarely, if ever, lectures on them. So basically you have a bunch of thoughts on a page, with no explanation to go with them. So if that isn't confusing enough, the two books are filled with complex system modeling techniques that we haven't not even touched on in class, nor do we have time to before the midterm, because we spend 90% of class time either interviewing for our mock Systems Analysis case, or listening to the professor tell stories completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
I'm am completely baffled why the prof has to cram another midterm in just three weeks after the first, just so he can get it in before spring break. It's stupid, and leaves the students completely unprepared. He tells us we will be tested on the system modeling techniques we've learned, but yet he has yet to teach a single technique in class. Not one! Oh, of course we've heard how nice India is to visit, how African women have the prettiest eyes, how the campus was organized 40 years ago, and we've learned the complete history of the San Francisco 49ers, but we have yet to learn one damn modeling technique! Yet these techniques, and a bunch of other random facts on SA&D will be all over this "midterm". Ugh. The crazy thing about this professor is, he's confusing, has bad test practices, and is not that great a teacher, yet he is the nicest professor I have ever had by far.
Does anyone else have midterms so frequently? Doesn't the word midterm imply that you would have this test at the middle of the term? How does it suddenly become a three time a semester occurrence, in addition to a final?
OK, sorry guys rant off, sorry this was so long.
