i've been jilted!
and i am extremely pissed about it.
the class that has been giving me grief from the very beginning--humanities core--posted a schedule of showings for this week. they pride themselves on focusing on all kinds of mediums: literature, scripture, architecture and art, and now film. we are to watch this show for lecture and the midterm on friday, so i checked the showings posted online and decided to go to the showing on tuesday at 1:00pm, since i have work on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays.
i and around 12 other humcore students waited outside HIB 135 for twenty minutes. i finally wondered why no one came to let us into the room for the showing and went to the humcore office for information. the woman there told us that the showing scheduled for 1:00pm on tuesday is actually in room 185. but since we had waited outside 135 until around 1:10, the class was full and we wouldn't be able to watch the showing. i was so mad that i turned my back on her halfway through her explanation and walked out. she didn't even apologize for posting the room number wrong! she made it sound like it was our fault for not realizing that the room number was an error! i can't believe these people! it was posted on their website! what we were supposed to think?!
you might think me rude for turning my back on her, but i was too angry. i might have said something i would regret if i had stayed. besides, there were the other 12 around me, so it didn't seem that rude. and the reason i am so upset is because i only have two available days to see that show before the midterm on friday. today and thursday. i wanted to see it today so that, if i needed to, i could have seen it again on thursday just to refresh my memory. now i'll only be able to see it once. not everyone that goes to university has time for these mistakes! i have a job! my mom is in Atlanta, Georgia this entire week, so i am expected to be home to help with dinner! i commute every single day, i don't dorm. i don't have time for these kinds of things! and gas prices are so high these days that i can't afford to waste my tank of gas. 13 gallons on sunday cost me $33.
*sighs*
have i ever mentioned how poor my family was when they first got here? it was just my mom, my dad and my sister. when they arrived they stayed with relatives in Gardena until they could afford to buy their own place--it was a garage being rented out by a nice family in the same area. it was there that i was born--in Torrance, into that Little Yellow House, as we called it. since i was born we've moved from apartment buildings around LA county down to Orange County: santa ana, tustin, and now here. all throughout my childhood, my asthma cost my parents even more grief and money. but now i can stand on my own two feet without wheezing, and we live in this townhouse at the base of the hills and plantations on property that's value has increased threetimes. i go to university that demands almost $3000 dollars from my parents every two months, no to mention my $200 dollar parking permit and my books every quarter. all this money and they can't even post a room number correctly on their stupid website.
*shakes head*
there is something to be said about institutions that get too big for their resources. they get sloppy and they raise tuition in order to support their sloppiness. get it into your thick heads that university is a two way street. we pay you to go to your school. but in turn, you must give us the tools we need for a proper education. i don't care if college is different from highschool and we are given our independence. their are basic things that need to be taken care of by the university and by it alone.
its no wonder UCI is being sued for their protestors. WAKE UP! maybe its not too late for you to fix the mess you have made, because the students are sure as hell not going to do it for you.
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I feel your pain. That sort of crap happens at my university too. I think it happens at every university. And tuition prices keep getting higher.
But you know what REALLY irks me? My psych prof told us that we are paying about $25 per lecture, so that is $25 for a 50 minute lecture. And these professors are getting paid well over $100,000 a year, to teach NINE hours a week. I mean...that is just wrong. Yeah, so prep time. BIG FREAKING DEAL. Most of the profs teach the same thing over and over and over and over again. And high school teachers have to do prep time too, and they teach 40 hours a week, plus extracurricular activities.
And don't give me that "Oh, they do research too" crap, because that is bull. That is what they have sabatical for. At least I think that is the right word. Either way, it's not like they HAVE to do research. I mean, you get your PhD and suddenly you are getting paid more than the highest paid doctors.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhh. That is why, after I get my PhD and I start teaching, I'm not going to accept that much money. YEAH, it would be nice. But seriously, who really NEEDS that much money? I don't need a fancy car, or a gigantic house. Give the freaking money to the students and give them a break.
Okay...so that didn't have a lot to do with posting the wrong class number...but it was sorta related.
i'm glad i'm not the only one who is frustrated by university! or else i'd feel like i'm exaggerating.
hmm. what you say interests me, though. the teachers here at uni don't get paid half that much, even if they do have a doctrite. my linguistics teacher first quarter was one of my favorite teachers and i found out some weeks ago that the university heads want to get rid of her because her ten year contract with UCI has expired. they're trying to get rid of her!! she's petitioning to stay, but they don't even want her back!
no, here, university is incredibly, disgustingly cheap. they say its the california budget cuts and that all the UCs are suffering because of it. i don't believe them. not for a second. they are mistreating good teachers and taking advantage of those instructors who would accept any amount of salary.
my only comfort is that someday they will get there's. someday all of this is going to come back and give them more misery then they ever dreamed of.
indeed. karma's a bitch. it just comes around and bites them in the arse, and when that happend you'll be there cheering it on, eh?
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