Back to School

I'm humming the song that Adam Sandler sings in Billy Madison as I type the title. I'm now a month into my late coming college career. To so I'm less than impressed is an understatement.

I think what as pushed me over the edge was a peer eval of an essay rough draft. I was writing about the characteristics of being feminine. I was using hair in this particular example. I'm not claiming by any means to be a poet laureate or the next Hemmingway, but I have a fairly decent vocabulary. This person, however, does not. At the very least you would think that one would be able to use context clues(thanks Tami for helping me remember that phrase-see, I said I wasn't the end all be all...lol), but apparently not.

This is what I wrote:
Hair is often a trademark of being feminine. Often, in stories, the description of the heroine includes having long, flowing tresses. It’s also consider a sign of sexiness when a woman has her hair pinned up, and then lets it down and shakes it out around her shoulders. Tossing the hair is also another way to show it off and display femininity.

This was my error according to a classmate:
5) In your third paragraph you have the word, tresses, but I think you mean dresses.

One would think, hope, wish that the teachers would be a better example. I have one teacher, for my College Success Skills class that is deluded and contradictory. One of things we're supposed to be learning in this class is time management(which BTW, the week that that topic...she was late not only posting our assignment, but final quiz for the week as well...we are supposed to get a week for the assignment and quiz, the assignment was posted a full day late and the quiz not till 2 days before it was due). In one breath she says how in high school a student's schedule was dictated by parents and teachers, and that we should be learning to schedule our time. Our assignment that week including scheduling all our study time into the week while accounting for sleep, work, etc. We were instructed to not turn our assignment in till we allotted 15 hours for math(which is the class that this one is linked to)...ummm, how am I supposed to learn to manage my time when you're dictating how many hours I have to spend on math?

My English teacher is a bit on the condescending side. This was a message she sent to us on day 2 of class.

Last warning of the day-Do not use semi-colons. Yes, I know that your Word program loves semi-colons, but usually English 101 students and Word do not know how to use semi-colons.

I used one in my first essay-even had a friend who is a teacher proof it for me. She said it was wrong and to just use a comma with no further explanation.

As I said on my Facebook status earlier today, I think there ought to be some gimme credits for being intelligent in general as well as life experience. I'd have a Bachelor's already(or in the kind words for my friend Adam...a PhD!!).

Ahh well, no use lamenting over it too long...just do my homework and get the grade to get on to the next class where I'm sure it'll be more of the same till eventually I get a fantastic piece of paper that says I did my time and am now employable in a field.