So. This term. It sucks.

I’m going to say it again: this term sucks. Badly. Right from the start to finish.

It all started with an empty schedule thanks to OSK taken already the term before. Trying to fill the void, I picked a course, Functional Programming, with my two buddies. And then, I applied to be a lecturer assistant in discrete math.

It all seems to be a bright term with prosperity, good knowledge, and good grades. Or so I thought.

The first mistake comes from the choices about the classes and which teacher to pick. Having to adjust my schedule to the new course, FP, the only choices I got is which CompNet class to pick. I picked the least populated class, mainly because I know the lecturer of the other class. And let’s just say I don’t have a very happy experience with his teaching.

No one would ever thought the class I picked is taught by someone best described as a mean trickster.

And then there’s the applied probability class, taught by someone best described as a perverted cucumber, doing anything he wants in the class from flirting with girl and babbling about election. Anything but teaching.

And the other two class, for whatever reason, just don’t ‘click’ with me. I might be wrong and a bit rude to say this, but the way they teach feels unprofessional, like this is the first time they ever teach some group in a class. (I’m fully aware that at least one of them is teaching for the first time, to who I deeply apologize if it offends him/them.)

In the end, though, can you justify blaming on the teachers/lecturers for the bad experience (and grades) you get? I don’t know. Perhaps I’m only looking for a scapegoat. I don’t know.

And don’t get me started on stuffs like how I eventually drop FP, thus giving all those ‘mistakes’ on class choosing no meaning and value at all, or how a term with 16 credits actually makes me lazier which results in bad grades and probably the main reason of all this.

So why am i writing all this?

I don’t know.

One thing is for certain though. I need to go back on track and study seriously again. You hear that? STOP FUCKING AROUND, AND START STUDYING MORE SERIOUSLY. Of course, by “You”, I mean my own self in the future, most likely already forgot about all this.

~ by jiro on June 12, 2009.