Time on my hands

29 May 2004

For once.  This is cool… I’ve got two pages of “To-do’s”, but at least I’m not weighed down by school work instead of being able to get stuck into the list.

Hehe… well, rather, I *should* probably be doing school work, but am not, as computer stuff is far more fun/profitable/both than school work ever was.  I mean, seriously – aside from maths, and other content-driven courses (the only one which I am doing at the minute is Modern History), what exactly are we meant to learn in school?!

Okay, here we go – listing subjects, and then progressively attacking each and every one of them.  Ready?

Advanced English: No comment. Insert comments about being assessed on under two sentences here.  No, I’m still not over that bloody assessment.

Physics: Apparently it is more comprehension “can-you-read-the-question” now than it used to be – it’d help if we had a PHYSICS teacher to teach us, but hey.  Until such a time as that situation changes, that is another subject in which nothing is being learnt.  Private study aside.

ITF: That subject is something of a joke.  Competent/Not competent provides amazing scope for doing absolutely nothing and being rewarded for it.  I’d go so far as to call it communism.

Business:  King-common-sense.  Learn a few terms, tick the various boxes, write a report, unit completed.  I like it, although it may be dead boring at times.

Extension English:  Okay, I kind of enjoy this one.  I’d go so far as to say that it’s right up there with Modern – that said, the reasons for my liking it are completely different.

As you can probably see, I’m not thinking too highly of most subjects at the minute.  Modern is cool, because, well, the course is nice, and our teacher is great, and maths is… yeah, maths is, there is little more that is required to be said about it.

To break it down a little further, English sucks because the department is, well, a little bit… I’ll say “misguided” – you can think about who is supposedly guiding the department, and draw your own conclusions there.  ITF sucks because the course is a “Framework” – which SACS apparently hasn’t really filled in too well (no, using a universities online curriculum to teach a course does NOT qualify as education), and because there are four classes in the one room, which does bend things towards anarchy, just a little.  Physics sucks because the teacher isn’t a physics teacher, and the head of department is obsessed with a vegetable and pointed dots, and, finally, Business sucks because there is no thought required – that said, it is easy to see why that is a subject I’m doing fairly well in ;).

So yes.  Time on my hands means whinging about departments, and code.  Lots of code.

Wink nudge, a new feature possibly on the way.