WOOHOO BIOLOGY!

[cjsmith]

I GOT INTO THE BIOLOGY CLASS!

Exclamation points!!! Smiley faces :-) :-) :-)!

I have not yet asked about taking the final exam early. That final is on Thursday, so I'd best be arriving in Japan while the rest of the class is taking the test.

Presuming the final will work out, I am faced with a choice:

- Drop English Writing, taught by a woman whose organizational skills and ability to remain on topic long enough to answer a student's question* both horrify me; OR
- Drop Spanish, taught by a teacher I like, but late in the evenings.

I've got e-mail out to the Spanish teacher asking to switch to her afternoon section. If that is possible, there's no contest. I have attended exactly one English writing class and already I dread it.


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* "How do you spell iambic pentameter?" This is not a long topic, folks.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I do wish I could do a questionnaire. She's probably a fine human being with her heart in the right place, but her brain simply isn't connected in the ways that make a teacher I want to have. I wonder if she'd do better teaching art. It's fine to be unclear and illogical when teaching art; in fact as best I can tell from art student friends, that sort of thing is a requirement, so that the students have to go through it. For writing, though, I think clarity should be required.