Apr 20, 2006
I actually wrote about this before, but it came up again, so I'm writing about it again: Time spent in class is time wasted. I can't even pretend to try to waste my time in class and get something useful out of it. I'm currently taking a single grad class that meets for two and a half hours on Wednesday evenings. It's not that much of a commitment. But I get absolutely nothing from the class. It's completely worthless. If all the notes and assignments are online, what's the point in going? Maybe if the professor taught something, I could try to squeeze some information out of the class. But here's how it works: He talks for two and a half hours about how to model and simulate things on a computer, then he gives us assignments that have virtually nothing to do with what he talked about. The only conceivable reason I could formulate for attending the class is to ask him questions about the assignments, but even that's a stupid idea. The only time to talk to him is after class, and there's just no way I can sit around for two and half hours to ask this guy a question. I hate school, and I only have one class per week. #education