Tuesday, May 02, 2006
I hate Zoology
My Zoology Final is not until Thursday, but I began reviewing for it this past weekend. I did this even though I had my Animal Science final yesterday morning, and I have my Communications final tomorrow morning. In other words, I'm sacrificing time that I need to prepare for sooner exams to prepare for an exam that I will probably not do very well on regardless of how much that I study. My roommate and I here in suite 202 have come to the conclusion that the Zoology department here at State desperately wants everyone that takes their classes to fail. I've actually heard stories of people that had my professor in previous semesters that failed every test and still ended up with a B in the class. My professor offers many opportunities to "help" your grade throughout the semester. A few of these include having 4 midterms, with the lowest score being dropped, a laboratory that is worth 25% of our final grade, and having people that only missed three or less lectures throughout the semester get their grade moved up one level. My test average is currently a B, and I need to make another A on my final midterm (which is the same day as the final) to move that average up even more. I recieved 148 (and some change) points out of a possible 150 points for my laboratory score, and I only missed one lecture throughout the entire semester. Therefore, it is my hope that I will do well on the last midterm and decent on the final so that I can come out with at least a B in the class. I have a feeling that I may be taking Bio 181 and 183 in upcoming semesters to combat this bad grade for my vet school application. I know that I've complained numerous times throughout the semester about this class, but I just really don't feel that we're graded fairly. My professor goes through the notes too quickly for anyone to copy anything down, and the tests are often given based on minute details that were hardly discussed during the lectures. He recently decided to put up his powerpoint slides on his website, and these greatly aided me in studying for my last test, but he's so concerned that someone is going to illegally distribute his lectures (I personally don't know of anyone who would want them) that I don't believe that they're on the website in their entireity. Going back to the unfairness of this class, I'm expecting somewhat of a curve, but even then I don't believe that's fair because if I were to end up with an A it wouldn't be a reflection of what I learned this semester. It would simply be a reflection of my professor's poor teaching skills and his liberal addition of points to our grades to cover himself so that he doens't turn out like Dr. Orji. (A former chemistry professor that got fired because he routinely failed over 30% of his class in an intro level course). I guess for now all I can do is suck it up and prepare for Zoology, and then worry about Communications in a little bit and hope for the best.
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