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Sunday, May 24, 2009
College expenses: What am I paying for exactly?
Posted by Meagan Bemis on Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:00 AM
I'm a college student, in case you hadn't guessed from the headline, and I have recently been wondering what exactly it
lub), but I have yet to decide whether I am actually reaping the benefits of these expenses.
Let me explain:
This semester I have taken a class with a professor who shall remain nameless that has done literally nothing. He assigned us a book to buy (cha-ching) and basically said "read these chapter, then take this exam," with a lot of anecdotal teaching in between, that served no purpose whatsoever. So, I have paid for the class, I have paid for the book - but what have I gotten in return? A whole lot of stress and no education. Outrageous, I say!
Again this happened last semester with another professor who shall remain nameless who not only did all of the aforementioned things, but was also extremely pretentious and ... well, mean. So, there again I learned nothing and was forced to sit, anxiously, class after class with nothing to show for it and miraculously pulling off a B...
I'm a good student, really I am. I'm one of those that speaks up when I know the answer or at least tries when the professor is sweating at the front of the classroom because no one is talking to him or her. I try hard in class and I always make the extra effort - but I just feel like I'm getting jipped - like these relationships between my professors and I are all give and no take (on my part).
Along with these disheartening experiences, I am in the midst of getting a communications/journalism degree - which if you've watched the news in the last, oh, year... you know that the journalism field is frankly at its wits end. So, I may actually graduate in May '10 with no where to go and then it will be even more obvious that I just paid up the wazoo for... nothing. FANTASTIC!
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