11.9.05

Estudyante Blues

I started my M.T. classes last week. I've been looking forward to this for the past few months because it sort of felt like I was finally going back to school and I really want to see if I can do well with something that actually requires you to study. Coz from what they've been telling us it seems that M.T. is like taking up medicine except that you're going to have to learn everything in just 6 months. So I figured hmm. "Medyo challenging ito 'tol.". Here’s my question: If there are a lot of things that we need to learn, then why the hell are they wasting our time with "computer essentials" and "english 100" stuff? I mean come on... haven't these people ever heard of diagnostic tests? The computer basics class lasted for 2 4-hour meetings. Good thing we had internet access during the time or else I would have fallen into a coma because of absolute boredom. They were teaching me how to create folders and save files in the computer. And as for the English class, I'm only looking forward to the day when we discuss punctuations because I figured that would be very useful in M.T. because as of now all we've done is give our teacher sentences using certain patterns. Stuff like I run, he runs, we run, they run, It runs, and so on...grrr....

O.k. Fine. If they have to teach us these things then I would just have to suck it up and take it in but the least that our so-called teachers can do is adjust their activities based on the skills of their students. Like in that computer essentials class, she wanted to teach us how to type faster. So what she had us do was type asdf, jkl', qwer, zxcv, nm,., and so on... do you get the pattern? Considering that all of us took this online typing exam and the lowest wpm that anybody got was 38wpm should've shown her that we were all touch-typists meaning we already know where everything is at on the computer keyboard. So why was she giving us exercises that are used to help people memorize the keyboard? Typing asdf asdf asdf asdf adsf until you have 6 lines of it is really irritating. Not to mention that I don't think it helps one bit since I'll just be typing the same letters which just happen to be next to each other on the keyboard over and over. So you're not really memorizing where the letters are at, you're just memorizing a pattern of how to move your fingers but the last time I checked the dictionary, I didn't find any words spelled like asdfg or zxcvb. So how is this going to help us to not look at the keyboard while we're typing? Also in the English class, gosh, that thing where the teacher goes around the room, making people give sample sentences just to make sure we know all what a "verb" is, is just oh so grade school. The average age of the people who are taking this class with me is 30, most of them are professionals who, I can only assume, have semi-good paying jobs because they were able to afford taking this course, 1 is a full-time mom, and another one is a call-center agent like me, and from what I've heard I'm the only one who doesn't have a degree so why the heck are they teaching us the same way that they would teach a kid in his or her 3rd grade? -- Oh, and another thing...you know my side kwento stuff, right? Anyway, from what I know, a "verb" is something different from a "burb" (because it sure sounds like she is saying "burb" to me). For an English major who has been teaching English for I don't know how long... maybe forever... you would expect that she would've figured out how to make the "v" sound by now. But no...

All I'm asking for is a little show of effort. I paid good money to take this class so I'm expecting my teachers to teach me things that I need to learn and not stuff that I already know. None of the other 8 people who are taking this course are stupid either so; their teaching methods only show me that they are not really thinking. They're just reciting something that they have memorized. This really blows considering the fact that taking this class was not cheap at all. This is the only career investment that I've made in my life and so far they've wasted 2 weeks' worth of it.

posted by jeanne @ 10:49

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