Blog 61 - sometimes professors are jerks.

Like really, I think my chemistry professor is making the class hard just because he can. Today, in lecture, a few hours before our midterm he decides to tell us that he took ALL of the multiple choice questions off of our midterm because he doesn't like multiple choice questions. Why he didn't realize this a day or two, or ten before the midterm so he could tell us the whole test was multiple choice, I don't know. Then, we have a practice midterm online, and he refuses to put up an answer key believing that, despite the fact that it's an honors class and most students in it are motivated, we would stare at the answers rather than trying the problems. Along with that, the practice midterm was normal freshman-ish chemistry. Like, more complicated problems than the ones in 122 but not impossible. Normal things like Pvnrt, and other gas law concepts and specific heat concepts. Of course though, our exam consists of only 5 short answer questions, which span over 9 pages (something is already wrong with this picture), where half of the questions are over things that were barely discussed or dismissed by the 4 chapters of the book we had to know. I understand where my professor is coming from. He believes strongly, very strongly in learning, like expanding of knowledge, and does not care one bit about grades. He doesn't realize that though we do want to learn, seeing that we took an honors class, grades are a little bit important, you know. Grad school's, medical school's sometimes seem to care less about whether you learned a ton of new information and got a B in an honors class. They would probably be happier with the A you receive in a regular chemistry class. It's sad that you have to give up the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of your long term career goals. I feel like i've blogged about this before, but I feel really strongly about this again, especially after this midterm. But yeah, i'm done ranting. Haha, thanks for listening!
grades vs, profession