Road Rage/AC IT Talk/Quality Education

Mood: Annoyed (was; now surprised) Music: Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto

Hey cool, I didn't know that I have a Getz CD. I had a couple of rants I wanted to post days back but I didn't want to rant all the time. I'm starting to realize that there are no effects or it barely does anything. Before I get to my main agenda, I'd like to share our experience at Assumption College (AC) the yesterday. It's one of those bad days when I get on a road rage because of stupid drivers. When we got to San Lo, there was this dumbass truck driver who had three dumber guys assisting him. The truck was blocking the way as it attempted to back up into a driveway. We were waiting for fifteen minutes already and we were already late, even Joy had to walk. So I went down and told this idiots to hurry the fuck up. Then when we passed them, I saw this guard just sitting on his bike watching. I asked him why he didn't assist them. He said there were three guys already assisting the driver. I told him those three guys don't know a single thing about driving. Geez. The next problem was parking. We reached the end of a long stretch of cars parked outside the campus then parked there. We were told that we can't park there and directed to turn back until we reach the end of the street. And so we did. When we reached the end of the street, the guard there said we can't park there either. So we just parked at this street near the campus. Less than five minutes after getting a seat, I was told that I didn't park correctly. So this Karen helped me on this. It turns out we couldn't park there either (Joy's instruction was to park on areas with the gutter painted green). I was five minutes close to getting the car tire locked (did I write that right). It was a lot of waiting and a couple of small things then Joy came to the rescue and got us parked at the "canteen". Going back to AC, we attended their IT: Trends, Opportunities and Carreers (TOC) which is a series of talks. They hold this annually and they have their usual iAcademy guests (as they mentioned). In the raffle, we got trial cards for Blast prepaid dial-up internet cards out of pity. The most interesting topics were the preview of Vista and VS .net 2005, Back to Basics (by Mr. Doy), and "da best" Macromedia Flash animation introduction by Mr. RD from MS-NERDS. And now, for the main agenda (considering how much I've typed already), I we have a complain on our NETCENT professor. We will give her an alias of Jobert for privacy. NETCENT is the most interesting course (for us CS boys and specially for me) on our curriculum, I even dropped it in exchange for DIFFCAL. But what should turn out to be a class filled with lots of enthusiasm, fun and knowledge transfer, is we get something no different to a group study (only the group includes the girls and the half male). Here's how her teaching style goes, every student is assigned a seat number and a group. That's okay, I'd like that for the sake of organization. The first twenty-or-so minutes of the class is allocated for a game for groups. The next thirty for the report and the remaining time for Q&A. This looked like it added fun points to the class but that was before. The losing team of the game will be the one assigned to report for the next meeting. The reporting is done every other meeting. The following meeting with a report is assigned for a fifty point quiz that doesn't measure the student's understanding of the topic but a measure of one's skill at memorizing abbreviations and terms. Then after the quiz, she will write on the board then read it all then dismiss us except for the next group to report which she will breif. For us, this looks like easy money for her. She just sits there and watch, well, comment and correct a little, but she doesn't teach us anything at all. Besides, what would you expect from a group of students who don't have an extensive background on teaching like a professor/instructor like her? This is where the quality of education goes down. We've been discussing on how to resolve this. Just like [codenamed] Chuck Rambo said, "We need to think carefully on our next decision". The actions we thought of doing are telling the guidance counselor (instant brainfart/wining), mention this to the SC (was recommended) and talking to her first then file a complaint if it doesn't work (my small thought). The following are the possibilities that I thought of. On the first case, I don't really know what might happen but it doesn't sound appropriate. On the next one, it would be a public humiliation and put her on a massive hatred campaign to kick her out or replace her. On the last one, I think no one would have the guts to step up to her or at least disclose the issue to her correctly which would just lead to its Plan B. We are lost and we are running out of time. Something should be done before it's to late. This should be two posts instead but who cares, I'm tired too. I also noticed I gave out a clue on Jobert's gender. Uugh...too tired to change...must stop myself from click the submit button..... _{to be continued..}

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