So there's this class...
I'm in a class... An English Composition class. Lots of reading and lots of writing, but ultimately nothing more than a National Novel Writing Month that I have to pay for. Most of the challenge comes from deciphering cryptic questions about example articles and answering them to the best of your abilities. (I lucked out on my first timed essay and got a perfect score, so I guess I wrote about what I needed to write about.) It's fun, I guess. I don't write how they say I should, with a little bit every day... But I'm a NaNoWriMo Veteran. I can write 2000 words in a single day, and I've managed to get good scores.
However, I don't have a lot of faith in this instructor. Unfortunately, he's turning out to be another neglecting teacher. I emailed him last week with questions about sources and here it is Thursday and I still haven't had a response. This comes as no surprise, because the entire site for this class is riddled with "notes to the instructor" with instructions on how to erase certain parts if certain requirements were meant. Like, say, to submit our papers, we use something called "Groups", but in the syllabus, there are instructions for posting to both Groups and a place called "Exchange", with a bright yellow warning telling the instructor to remove one of the options. Naturally, both options remain, and these things are plastered all over the place. It's like the Linux instructor last semester who didn't realize that some options of the software were removed, such as something called a Digital Drop Box. One, it was my second semester using that software and I'd never seen an option called the "Drop Box"... Two, he was the instructor and he didn't bother to check out the new Blackboard before classes started and gave us orders to do things a certain way, and confused us all because of his... What? Incompetency? Laziness?
Even now, there's a class that demands we write papers in Rich Text Format and attach them to the forums when we make a comment... Sadly, there is no Attach button, and there hasn't been an Attach button in three semesters, so we all just paste our papers right into the thread. Good thing I grew up playing Myst, or I'd be waaay confused and seriously ticked off... As in... More than I am right now.