Good god, WHYYYYY!!!!!????
OK, well, I studied for 5 GODDAMNED hours on my last Spanish test. FIVE!!! Let's see...that CLEARLY means I deserve a 53/100!!! For fuck's sakes!!! I did well on all of the parts except the two compositions, which was worth, like, 60 percent of the grade. In one of them, I only made 4 small mistakes out of a ten sentence paragraph and she gave me a 15/30!!! WTF, does this make ANY fucking sense???
So 1/4th of the class flunked, and we had to meet with her today to talk about the problems we were having with the class.
"Um...I think one of the problems I have is that I don't even know what i'm saying. We haven't had any examples of what the verb tenses mean in English. You're explaining a foreign language with an example in a foreign language while talking in a foreign language...you know?" -Me
"Oh, you just want everything translated. You need to do your own work." -The Professor
"Um, no, I do my own work. But how am I supposed to know what 'presente perfect' means in English if I only get Spanish examples? I memorize the tenses and their meanings but don't have any examples of when or how to use them." -Me
"Well, I guess that's because you don't study." -My professor
"I don't even think that's the problem at all, I don't even know what she's talking about." -Some cocky guy
"Oh, because, um, it IS?? It IS the problem? To not even have one example of what i'm saying in English?" -Me
"I know you're frustrated...but if you would just study..." -The professor
"Uh, yeah. I studied for five hours for the test." **Insert green-eyed, heavily eyelined glare here with sardonic sneer towards cocky guy** "Yeah. I'm an English major!" -Me
Silence.
Oh fuck. Well, it's great to know i'll be flunking out of college because i'm getting A's in all my classes except 1! Yaaay!!!!
If you'll excuse me, I have to go work on an Anarchist Feminism presentation that's i'll be doing in a couple of hours. See, i'll probably get a passing grade in that.
OK, well, I studied for 5 GODDAMNED hours on my last Spanish test. FIVE!!! Let's see...that CLEARLY means I deserve a 53/100!!! For fuck's sakes!!! I did well on all of the parts except the two compositions, which was worth, like, 60 percent of the grade. In one of them, I only made 4 small mistakes out of a ten sentence paragraph and she gave me a 15/30!!! WTF, does this make ANY fucking sense???
So 1/4th of the class flunked, and we had to meet with her today to talk about the problems we were having with the class.
"Um...I think one of the problems I have is that I don't even know what i'm saying. We haven't had any examples of what the verb tenses mean in English. You're explaining a foreign language with an example in a foreign language while talking in a foreign language...you know?" -Me
"Oh, you just want everything translated. You need to do your own work." -The Professor
"Um, no, I do my own work. But how am I supposed to know what 'presente perfect' means in English if I only get Spanish examples? I memorize the tenses and their meanings but don't have any examples of when or how to use them." -Me
"Well, I guess that's because you don't study." -My professor
"I don't even think that's the problem at all, I don't even know what she's talking about." -Some cocky guy
"Oh, because, um, it IS?? It IS the problem? To not even have one example of what i'm saying in English?" -Me
"I know you're frustrated...but if you would just study..." -The professor
"Uh, yeah. I studied for five hours for the test." **Insert green-eyed, heavily eyelined glare here with sardonic sneer towards cocky guy** "Yeah. I'm an English major!" -Me
Silence.
Oh fuck. Well, it's great to know i'll be flunking out of college because i'm getting A's in all my classes except 1! Yaaay!!!!
If you'll excuse me, I have to go work on an Anarchist Feminism presentation that's i'll be doing in a couple of hours. See, i'll probably get a passing grade in that.
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i hate spanish