First a comment, apple cider is the true nectar of the gods and sending mail does a body good.

An awful, horrible test, from an equally awful and horrible professor at 8am this morning. Now, I know that lots of people say that their professors are awful or that a test was horrible, but oftentimes these are exaggerations or problems that were brought upon the students by themselves by lack of studying or something like that. But today was not such a case. Let's keep in mind that everything that we covered for this test, I have had before, just last semester, and I understood it then. And I maintain that I understand it still. No matter how much I would have studied, there were two major problems:

1) The professor is amazingly bad. We are talking, over the course of each classperiod and with each passing lecture of this professor (5 days a week, mind you) the entire class (107 of us) got more and more belligerant and disbelieving of what was happening to us. By the end of the final classperiod with him, I would estimate that 80% of people were studying some other classwork, just so that he would not mess them up even more, and there were verbal outbursts and unmuted laughing in disbelief at our luck.

2) The test was not written to test what we had learned, it was written to test what we did not understand. Nearly every question was, "Which of the following is false in regards to {fill in something about nerves or the renal system}?" There were four to five options for each questions, many having "none of the above" as an option. This combined with the poor English that this instructor happens to develop from time to time made the test nearly impossible. How can you get a question correct when you can't understand what it is asking and requesting help from the instructor only makes the problem worse? There were audible laughs and exclamations about questions throughout the course of the test. The class is graded on a strict 90-80-70-60 system, no curve. Isn't that great??

But the best news? We get him next semester again!! Teaching something like half of our neurobiology course. Yep, life is good.

Oh, and ditto on last Tuesday's entry, adding: how is it that so many people can have such polar opposite opinions on the same person??