Shit, nine more weeks of this quarter...

So, last week I was slightly--very slightly--amped to be going back to school. I was beginning to get a little stir crazy with the excess free time and was happy to begin the frantic pace again. What in Gods name was I thinking? Probably not the best way to start out a quarter by having your teacher totally not show up for class. Yes, he just didn't show. Apparently he thought it was on a different day, which in itself isn't so bad, sure we all make mistakes, but then he decides to arbitrarily move the day of our class. While I looked around flabbergasted the rest of the class is grumbling but seems intent on grinning and bearing it; I on the other hand was having none of it. I, as politely as I am capable of after sitting for half an hour waiting for a teacher to show up ask the person who has the unenviable task of relaying this new information to us exactly how this is going to work. Considering we all signed up for a Monday course for a reason; whether that be because of other classes, work, or family but you can't just change it on a whim--the day class starts. I then proceed to say that I need this class but can't take it on the day the teacher has decided is the new class day. Seeing my spirit or perhaps the venom starting to spring from my lips the other students finally decide to get a backbone and stand up for the fact that they too can't come to class at the new time. Most of them have other classes at that time or, like me, have to work. I rearranged my entire work schedule, much to my bosses chagrin, around this damn class, I already have the books and here I am on the verge of needing to drop it because the teacher has a case of the Monday's... Longer story slightly shorter, the teacher relented and kept the class on Monday mostly because I think there would have only been three people in it otherwise. Small victory. The rest of the week was mostly uneventful. My other classes weren't too bad. There, of course, is an obscene amount of reading again and quite a few papers but on the whole it shouldn't be to bad.

Posted by Jess | Monday, January 16, 2006