First, I get that it might be a little confusing when the word door is written on the seating chart (forget for the moment that there actually is a door in the spot indicated even if you interpret the seating chart correctly), but there was a picture of the DESK that is at the front of the room. There is a door on each side, but there is only one middle of the front of the classroom. Stop making our professors think that we're all that unable to handle simple tasks.
Second, I thought Klein was going to have a great positive impact on the way people answer in class. She's big on decisiveness and on answering with sentences that actually end in periods. Somehow though, people have managed to largely ignore the direction she is trying to take us in. How is it possible to go through an ENTIRE case answering ONLY in questions? Not only does it weaken the answer and make you look like you have almost no idea what you're talking about, it's annoying and frustrating for the rest of us (at least me). As much as I want to suffer through the torture that is the mutual Socratic method, I don't.
Third, I want to clarify that I'm not actually anti-Mash. I think we may have just gotten off on the wrong foot when she lied about notice on day one. A couple days of inoculation and she seems much more pleasant. Of particular note is that even though we do have Civ Pro on Friday, she only gave us 9 pages of reading for it. Tip o' the cap on that one.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Kick Off
So far I like classes this semester. App Ad is still great, Con Law seems alright, and I love property. There's one thing ruining it, though. Civ Pro (Although the way it's taught, it's more like Civ Amateur).
2pm classes aren't supposed to be the ones that people can't stay awake in, but somehow minutes after two it's like I was roofied at lunch. If it were only once, maybe I'd just write it off as actually having been roofied at lunch, but it's still happening. I know, "Boo hoo, there's a class that isn't interesting." The problem isn't the material, though. I actually think the material is pretty engaging. If it were just a monotone that I were trying to push through, it'd be easier to deal with. Been there, done that. The real issue is that it becomes a lot harder to press on when you think there's a reasonable chance the material being presented is going to be dead wrong. The very first day we were straight up lied to about notice. "Oh but notice is such a complicated...." That's right, it isn't. It's a very simple, very basic concept and as a result should be very easy to not mislead students about.
The approach doesn't get me going, either. I really preferred being talked to like I should understand things in Torts to being treated like Levin started hosting a daycare on campus during class hours and I was scheduled for that by mistake. That would at least explain why it feels like nap time is part of the curriculum.
On a more positive note, I'm really excited about Woodser, and you should be, too!
That's all for the first post, and it won't all be this bitter. Spoiler alert for the next one: reviewing a Property related movie recommended by THE RyGil
2pm classes aren't supposed to be the ones that people can't stay awake in, but somehow minutes after two it's like I was roofied at lunch. If it were only once, maybe I'd just write it off as actually having been roofied at lunch, but it's still happening. I know, "Boo hoo, there's a class that isn't interesting." The problem isn't the material, though. I actually think the material is pretty engaging. If it were just a monotone that I were trying to push through, it'd be easier to deal with. Been there, done that. The real issue is that it becomes a lot harder to press on when you think there's a reasonable chance the material being presented is going to be dead wrong. The very first day we were straight up lied to about notice. "Oh but notice is such a complicated...." That's right, it isn't. It's a very simple, very basic concept and as a result should be very easy to not mislead students about.
The approach doesn't get me going, either. I really preferred being talked to like I should understand things in Torts to being treated like Levin started hosting a daycare on campus during class hours and I was scheduled for that by mistake. That would at least explain why it feels like nap time is part of the curriculum.
On a more positive note, I'm really excited about Woodser, and you should be, too!
That's all for the first post, and it won't all be this bitter. Spoiler alert for the next one: reviewing a Property related movie recommended by THE RyGil
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