confetti

i don't know if you can seriously call my econ professor a professor.

if you recall, at the beginning of the semester, i didn't know whether he was going to be a professor who doesn't teach and makes his exams possibly hard...or just a laid back guy who throws out a's like they're confetti. well, i was right. check to all the fore mentioned. except he does teach every so often.

on the first day of class, he reads over the syllabus. its straight forward. two tests, a paper, and five quizzes, drop the lowest quiz. sounds like a typical class. well, the first quiz comes around...its 35 stinking questions long and takes the entire 1 hour and 15 minute class to finish. the grades are bad and we all complain. second quiz, four questions long. it still takes at least an hour. grades are still bad, so we all complain. he now resolves to let us drop two quiz grades. but wait. it gets better.

today we got our midterms back (it was out of 16 possible points, but it 25% of our grade). like always, we spend the class after a quiz/test going over the questions and talking about things not related to economics. then, he decides to work on the calendar, with college students helping him. a professor who doesn't want to teach collaborating with 20 students who don't want to learn does not make a very academically challenging class. i doubt his superiors would appreciate that.

so, the end result: in the second half of the semester, we have 13 classes left. therefore, “in a continuing effort to make sure people get the grades they want" he decides to cram the remaining six chapters and two quizzes into the next 7 classes, move our final exam to november 17, and count the paper as a quiz that can be dropped...using the remaining three weeks as "work on paper" time . also known as, "no class". and i am in no way complaining.

now just watch the confetti fly.