January 11, 2006 - 4:14 p.m.
<Mr. Bad Grammar Research Methods
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I think it is a very sad thing when I sit down to read my coursepack (i.e. instead of a textbook, some professors just type out their own "book" and run it through the copier a couple hundred times) and I have to stop for the great headache I am suffering because my college professor seems to not understand that sentences need verbs. And that question marks don't go at the end of statements (I'm only pretty sure it was supposed to be a statement...who knows without a verb?). I'm horrified... if I were an English teacher, I'd be marking this all up. It's all I can do to keep from proofreading this sucker as I read my assignment.
In other news, I wasn't very excited about this semester. It was the first one, I think, that I wasn't the least bit excited about going back to school. But after going to all of my classes, I think I'll really like all of them. All except "Communication Research Methods," which is being taught by the guy who can't apply English to his coursepacks. Nothing about that class is going to be exciting - but it looks like it will be a lot easier than I had anticipated. Latin is always fun, and this semester we're doing poetry which is my especial favorite. "Interpersonal Relationshps" is going to be all about romantic relationships, with perhaps a chapter or two on friendship. He even told us not to bring our children to class because there will be a lot of "R" rated conversations... which is weird coming from this very nice and classy guy. "Public Relations" is being taught by a really arrogant guy, but he's also hilarious and Mr. Bad Grammar Research Methods says he's really a big softie under the gruff front he puts up. "Personality Psychology" was a class I was kind of most afraid of, but the teacher seems very nice, and we even get to use this little clicker gizmos so we can take quizzes and polls and attendance in a 100-200 person class. You just click your little clicker towards an infrared sensor, and the machine puts up a graph on a screen with our answers on it. English may, I dare say, actually be interesting. I'm minoring in English, so it's not like I hate it at all, but American Literature was never something I could get very excited about. But my teacher seems very nice, and he even has an English accent(!) so I love listening to him talk.
In conclusion, I'm getting more and more optimistic about the new semester the more classes I attend. And nothing looks like it will be as hard as I thought it would be. Which is nice.
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