Prof. Fail

Rant time! Hooray, right?!


This semester, I have been taking a Religious Studies class. This sounds relatively interesting, right? Well, it IS interesting... Once you get past all the professor's B.S. See, my professor really can't be accountable for anything. Sure, he knows a lot about different religions and has some cool stories to tell, but all of this is moot if you can't keep yourself organized. Furthermore, if you can't keep yourself organized, you shouldn't expect your students to be 100% perfect either.


Here's what spurred this:


So we've been "reviewing" Hinduism in our class and lo and behold, my teacher found himself a Hindu. Or should I say "Hindu"? See, I live in a pretty small town where there aren't many Hindus. So even after seeing that this "Hindu" was white and blond, I gave her the benefit of the doubt. To each his own, right? Anyone can be any religion they want in my book. My teacher started off with some basic questions, which she gave reasonable answers for, but when he got into questions about Hindu theology, such as do you believe in god(s), she was all, "Oh I just focus on the universe, I don't really get into gods."


Last time I checked, that was a pretty big part of being a Hindu. 


Then my teacher asked if she had worked with another Hindu to find her mantra and how had she become informed on all aspects of Hinduism? To which she replied, "Everything I know I learned from Wikipedia."


WIKIPEDIA?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! There's a reason professors won't let you use it as a reliable source....


Which is why she shall always be known to me as the "Techno-Hindu".


She also said she wanted to go to a Hindu church. Last time I checked, Christians had churches, Hindus had temples.


Now of course I'm paraphrasing a bit, and maybe she was legitimately nervous about talking infront of a class, but seriously. After she left, one of my fellow classmates said, "It took a lot of balls to get up in front of the class, especially since she didn't know what she was talking about." MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. In my opinion, if you are going to proclaim yourself as a certain religion, you might want to be a bit more informed about it. 


So after this hot mess, my teacher proceeds to kind of fumble through the rest of the notes and then 2 students are left with 30 minutes to give presentations (believe me, they talked FAST). And there's still students who haven't given their presentations for the semester.


Did I mention this was the last day of class?


So to my final complaint. We were supposed to read the Qu'ran in its entirety. I... Did not. I had read it once so this time I just skimmed it. We were supposed to turn in papers each week/class period with a synopsis of what we read. There was a specific format we were supposed to follow, which he had written in detail. Unfortunately he failed to give it to the class. I at least TRIED to turn in some readings. So when I took my sheet to him, he started asking me how much I read *exactly*. Of course I floundered with my answers and finally my professor said, "Well, it looks like you just read a couple of pages." At this point, I was done with the man and the class and I knew there was no point in arguing with him. So I just shrugged and left. 


So that's it. I think I should write a review on ratemyprofessor.com and link this post in it. (-_-;)

My HOLY SHIT Day

These past couple of weeks have been one of the most, if not THE most, stressful times in my life. I've been trying to keep my head above water but at times I still feel like I'm drowning. Today was one of those days...


First off, let me say that my Sociology professor is pretty lenient when it comes to due dates. So much so that all semester, she's allowed people to wait until the next class meeting to give presentations. So after reviewing our schedule, I figured our presentation wasn't until Thursday. OH NO. My professor is all like, "So, the education group is going today, right?" I look back at the girl who has kind of served as the leader and she looked as surprised as I felt. So when it came time to get up in front of the class, I ran up to her and said, "Hey, I didn't think our presentation was until Thursday. I'm not prepared AT ALL." She responded by saying, "Me either," which made me feel waaaay better. So I dug deep and channeled my inner Bill O'Reilly and thought "FUCK IT, WE'LL DO IT LIVE." And actually, even though we were unprepared, our professor said we actually did pretty well.  


Second, there was an exam over Islam in my Religious Studies class. Mind you, we had only spent 2 class periods on it and I had barely cracked the Qu'ran (which we were supposed to read entirely). I hadn't really had much time to study and went into it feeling quite unprepared.


I ended up being the 2nd person finished.


You might think this is a bad thing, but as I got going, I realized I knew more about Islam than I thought I did, thanks to my boyfriend's Muslim roommate. (Thanks, Hani!) And I'll be damned if I didn't actually do better on this test than the Christianity test. XD


I'm wondering if I secretly have the soul of a cat. And I'm also pretty sure that I have used up some of my 9 lives today.

Let's Do This

Ok, so this is the first of hopefully many posts (I have trouble keeping up with things like this) but basically this will be my online, public "journal", if you will. I feel like a lot of times, I spam my friends (or "friends") on Facebook with status updates or random photos. THEREFORE, this will be the catchall for things that don't end up on Facebook. There will most definitely be rants, but maybe I can turn this into a blog with a theme or a purpose, such as nail are or Japanese stuff or food (ah, foooood). If anyone reads this and knows me personally, suggestions will be welcome (even if they're stupid, I'm always up for a good lol). If I can write daily, that'll be a miracle. Maybe I should challenge myself... Or not.