I’m such a geek…
…if people you thought were actually good friends even give a shit. The lack of returned calls for weeks at a time and the complete lack of contact– those things make you wonder.
What better time than college to discover those people? It’s OK. I’ll move on.
While I can believe this actually happened… it doesn’t mean it is right:
Chris Comer, a Science Teacher in Texas was Expelled for not teaching Intelligent Design in her science class. It’s a scary day indeed when our science teachers get fired for recognizing that creationism is not science.
I hope this lady fights this until she gets her job back.
Creationism is NOT science. Therefore it should NOT be taught in a science class… or anywhere for that matter. Leave it to the insane people to try and “spread the word.”
I have a class where were I attend a lecture 3 times a week for an hour, no big deal. I read the chapter, I pay attention in the lecture, I take notes, and I’ll study a bit for a test before we take it… But this class has an added bonus thrown on top of that. This bonus is called WebAssign.
My Chemistry class uses this for on-line quizzes. These aren’t your average quiz. These are quizzes sent from a very bad place. Based off a few Google searches, this site is causing extreme stress everywhere it lingers. I mostly find myself just trying to get an answer it accepts, no matter how I get to it, I don’t care. It is just so frustrating to spend about 20 minutes on a problem because you know it has to be exactly right, then it returns the evil statement, “Your answer differs from the correct answer by orders of magnitude.” To which I usually scream some curse words and walk away feeling defeated.
It is not so much that it is a pain in the ass to get it all completed. It’s not even that it takes hours to complete. It is not even that there is no way to hack the source and get the algorithms used to get the right answer (it’s all server side, so that makes it pretty difficult, yes I’ve investigated the possibilities 
). It is more so the fact that if you use up all your chances to get the right answer that it will not tell me the right answer or how to get to it! In other words, I learn nothing by completing the stupid assignment! It is just a huge waste of my time, and I’m not alone in these frustrations.
Teacher/Professors only like it because it makes grading very easy… they do nothing!
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