Syllabus Week

Ok now. When I was a freshman I was like, lol syllabus week how fun! It made sense that it would be a great week. No homework. Hardly any discussion. Great week.

BUT THEN I SAW SYLLABUS WEEK FOR WHAT IT REALLY WAS!

Once you get into a class that is not 100 level your professors are like "you know how to read, right? read 200 pages by tomorrow, lulz." What the what? I can read maybe twenty pages before I lose interest in the applications of femininity on the shrubbery business. 200 pages is like reading a novel.

This has never happend to me, I over-exaggerate. But I was assigned 70 pages of reading, which after converting the font size, basically is 200.

Ok back to my point. That really isn't the biggest flaw of syllabus week. The biggest flaw is how you can waste 50 minutes going over how the class is going to be run. The instructor passes out a 6-page syllabus that has every detail imaginable. But they proceed to read every word of the syllabus to you and then add an extra five minutes about why that rule is in place. For example:

"'Laptops are permitted in class only if they are being used for class activities (i.e. looking up facts, taking notes, etc). They are not to be used for non-class activities (i.e. personal shopping, Facebook, or masturbating). If you are using your laptop for non-class activities and it is a disruption to others I will have to ask you to leave the class.' So.... in regards to laptops, I know that when I was a student in 1896 no computers or women were allowed in the classroom but I guess if you are using them for class that's ok. But if I see you shopping for hand grenades I'm going to have to ask you to leave."

Really? We are in a 300-level class and it is spring semester. How could someone not know what an appropriate laptop usage would be? Don't look up porn, nobody cares about anything else. But I shouldn't give my fellow students the benefit of thinking they know what to do and what not to do. If laptop policies are not addressed there is always one girl who asks, "So can we like, use our laptops and cell phones and ipods and portable dvd players and waffle makers? It never said that anywhere on the syllabus."

IT DIDN'T SAY IT ON THE SYLLABUS BECAUSE IT IS COMMON SENSE!!! GAH!!!!

Oh well... that's college.

Much love.

- Harrison