The Whining and Bitching Thread

[unknown]

Oh rad. How has your experience working at CCs been?

Outstanding. I worked/taught at CSULB for three years, and it was nothing but headaches dealing with all the hoop jumping. CCs are smaller, pay better than the CSUs, and the faculty camaraderie is significantly more enjoyable. Plus you have a wider range of students. I tend to work with more adult students or older students in general which I like. I noticed when I taught at CSULB, it was entirely freshmen out of high school who had no opinions on life or original thoughts of their own. It was like pulling teeth.

 

[damnromulans]

That sounds perfect. People who are there because they want to learn stuff, not because they're "supposed to be there."

My neck/back/shoulder is killing me and I have no idea why.

 

[Matt]

It's looking like I might fail one of my harder major requirement classes. My teacher fucking sucks and also happens to be my adviser so I'm royally fucked.

 

[SentinelSlain]

what is the course actually on?

 

[Master_Yoda77]

If only it were that simple. As a retarded freshman I still liked Classics, which is the only way I can approach the subject of Rhetoric with any level of authority. All these students want to talk about is Miley Cyrus.

Also, I should add that I was in the Honors program as a freshman, and my students here are not. In Rhetoric classes that is a major difference in terms of how the students take command of the learning environment.

I actually really like teaching Freshman. There is something about their knowledge (or lack of) and thought process that I find so intriguing. Like, how the fuck do you get "viscous/vicious" and "manor/manner" confused on numerous occasions?

 

[whiskey funeral]

Slap him around a little.

That won't work.

My son is a toddler and has Sensory Integration Disorder. Not sure if any of you are familiar with this, but it has been linked to autism in some cases (not his, thankfully). He has issues with speech and transitioning from one task to another. When things don't go his way, it's a toddler tantrum times 1000.

His morning teacher told me today that he threw a chair in class. Not at anyone, thankfully. But still.

 

[Matt]

what is the course actually on?

Managerial economics. Lots of calculus and stats.

 

[Dak]

Business stats hasn't been too bad content difficulty wise. Just such repetitive homework.

 

[Matt]

It's hard for me when applying them to advanced economic concepts; 15+ step word problems, etc. I always forget something or make a small error that fucks everything up, no matter how hard I try to prepare. It doesn't help that the lectures aren't good and I have to teach myself everything backwards.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

WTF did she threaten your dog for?

My dog was barking at her and her friend's dog because for some reason they were standing by my gate talking. I guess they felt threatened. They rang my doorbell and told me to put him inside because he was being aggressive (it's a private house I live in, so this is totally out of line and freaking asinine!). They started arguing with me, so I told them no and that they are trespassing and need to leave. And so that's when the lady said she'd shoot him next time she sees him. I then told her i'd shoot her if she shot my dog. & told her friend (who had the little dog) that if she would shoot my dog, she'd shoot her dog as well. Her friend kind of walked away after that, which lead me to believe that she knew they were out of line.

I put him back inside after the cops came though, just to be on the safe side/

 

[Dak]

It's hard for me when applying them to advanced economic concepts; 15+ step word problems, etc. I always forget something or make a small error that fucks everything up, no matter how hard I try to prepare. It doesn't help that the lectures aren't good and I have to teach myself everything backwards.

I'm not a "math person", purely because I dislike the tediousness of the subject. I've been fortunate since going back to academia to have excellent teachers in my Algebra and now Bus. Stats class.

That said, I aced Algebra in large part to learning how to work backwards off my TI-83, and Stats is as much logic and reading comprehension as calculator manipulation. But - I don't have 15 step word problems. Small errors in math in my experience are primarily due to boredom or just simple keypunch errors.

 

[Vimana]

I've barely slept in the past four days. I started hallucinating a little bit and my trains of thought have become less organized, shorter, and more disconnected. I oddly have a lot of energy, though.

 

[The Butt]

I can't do that shit anymore, staying awake is a game for the young.

 

[Vimana]

I didn't do this by choice. I've been smoking so much indica-dominant weed that I've depended on it for sleep. Oddly, enough, today my thoughts gained some kind of quickness and clarity somewhat reminiscent of acid trips, except not nearly as strong or consistent. However, I'm definitely fucking sleeping tonight because I'm scared I might die or something if this continues.

But yeah, after being eighteen and embracing the fact that I could control my bedtime, I found staying up all night overrated. I think it's cool when I'm doing something fun, but not cool merely for its own sake.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Dear parents and pregnant women: if you have a Facebook please create a private group for your family where you can post all the pictures of your alien-infants and swollen bellies. The rest of your friends don't want to see that crap. It's gross. Pregnant bellies are disturbing and newborn babies are almost always ugly. At least wait til your kids are actually cute to flood the internet with pictures of them.

 

[SentinelSlain]

YAY BAYBEEZ


HMMMMM

You're MEAN

 

[Funerary_Doom]

Lol. Spot-on about newborns. Always ugly.

Tired and willing myself to get ready for a gig before work. It's a charity gig, and I'm not sure why I said yes because I really just want to sleep for another two hours before work.

 

[Nephilim96]

The worst people are those who post pictures of their kids, nude. I don't want to see a 3 month old's penis.

 

[Onder]

Of course newborns are ugly. They just came out of a very strange place without any air in it.

 

[SentinelSlain]

Ew humans. Put them back.