Exams Finished

Today marked the last day of final exams for me, ending with a bang! It’s sad to see the low quality teaching standards of many university professors and their teaching assistants.  I haven’t seen any course with more mistakes in the course notes, mis-numbered assignment questions and general error in teaching material than that for which I wrote an exam for today.

Thinking that many of these students will be the engineers of tomorrow with little clear knowledge of the material they are learning is scary.  I can say that a vast majority of my classmates simply don’t learn anything during the school term.  They cram and cram before the final exams and if asked anything outside the scope of their assignment questions which they’ve memorized won’t be able to give you an answer.

To say the least I think there should be some quality checks for the courses.  Assignment solutions should be legible and the teaching assistants should have a decent understanding of the course material.  It’s just disappointing to finish the school term thinking that 4 out of the 5 courses you took were a complete was of time and money.

Another example of poor academic offerings is my distance education psychology course which had no course instruction for the entire length of the course.  A mistake was made assigning a professor to the course and students were left with no instructor.  No one was held responsible for this and who knows where our money went.  Everything I learned was through the course materials which I could’ve done out of interest had I wanted to.

I don’t blame students for dropping out and going on to do what they believe is more important with their lives.  A lot of useless time can be spent behind the bureaucracy of the education system.  Both that valuable time and money for someone who knows what they want to do in their life can be used much more efficiently outside of the system.

Furthermore I believe the education system conforms people to become dependent on the system for motivation.  Students have no metrics for their own lives besides the grades that there professors give them with at the end of the term.

At least another term is over and I can get back to what’s most important to me…sigh…

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