I missed almost all of last week’s classes because I was extremely sick.
I have missed my last 3 History classes and it seems I’ve missed an exam, which I don’t think I can make up. I also have an 8-10 page research paper due in that class on Thursday, I haven’t started it, I have no idea what I’m doing.
I am behind 2 reading question assignments in Sociology.
I have no idea what’s going on in Linear Algebra. Period.
I haven’t completed the last few programs for Computer science, the man teaches like a drunkard.
I also had a 4-7 page paper due in English last Tuesday, haven’t started it. I needed to complete a 500 page book for English by now, I’m on page 35.
Fuck me, I’m failing out of college.
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You can’t fail…I won’t allow it. You are now officially forbidden from failing.
BTW, I love the part about Maslanka teaching like a drunkard, which is more-or-less acurate, though he’s really a nice guy. You shouldn’t have trouble catching up in CompSci, I think that’s the least of your worries. I’ll help out as much as I can with linear algebra too.
At least you don’t have Makokian, who HAS to have retired long since.
@Dan: Thanks, I’ll try my best.
@Jay: I DO have Makokian.
Damn! Same guy? Resembles a rat? Math professor I had for Pascal.
Oh yes it is.
Yup, that’s definitely the guy. I’m assuming he was just as terrible when you had him?
I can’t believe he’s still there! He’s the Worst Professor Ever. Not actively evil and competent yet misguided like Silverman for accounting and business law, but mainly just apathetic. When I had him over 20 years ago it was as if he was just marking time until he could retire, and would rather be doing anything else.
The funny thing was I was short a class and needed to fill out my schedule for that semester. I’d given up trying to take BASIC, as I was already too self-taught for it to hold my interest. Most anything I’d have taken was already full, but his class barely had anyone in it. He seemed amused when I transferred in, and I found out it was probably because nobody who’d heard about him would have.
The good thing was that Sharon McGrath was in my class, trying to take Computer Science 101 for the second time as a computer science major, before giving up and changing majors. She barely managed a D. I managed a C. If you were naturally gifted or easily self-taught and perhaps expecting to get nothing from the prof, you could get a good grade readily enough. We had the inevitable “next Bill Gates” uber programmer type in the class, just breezing through it.
I always objected to professors who added nothing to what you could get from the books or each other.
He must be getting old, if he’s still there. I’d have pegged him for 40-something at least, in the early to mid eighties. Well, I think it must have been my fourth semester there, which would have been spring 1984. I was in German still, pretty sure my fourth semester of it, so that sets the timing concretely.
1984, not 1994!
Update: Fixed for you.
-Pacdan
He’s seriously old, but still here. Unfortunately for us. He teaches linear algebra, which we both have.
So did Codeman manage to get his Shiz together and catch up? Don’t leave us hanging like this.
I’m curious if you go to Bridgewater State College. My stepdad wasn’t a good father, so I’m not surprised he isn’t a good teacher.
DON’T WORRY, I’LL NEVER TELL HIM. I live in Los Angeles now. This just cracked me up. I had googled myself because I’m a reporter and I wanted to see which articles were there, as I put it on a job application letter. I didn’t expect to find this. lol.lol.
Maybe I’ll start a blog. How do you do it?
Peace,
Sharon Makokian
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