I am seated at the front row, eyeing other students who started to trickle in. Alas, there is no super pretty gals or handsome guys to nourish my eyes. Lo and behold, the lecturer came in.
He turn towards students and flashed his smile (his opinion: charming smile. My opinion: retarded smile). Then he goes on to turn on the computer and search for power point slides. Much to his dismay, he realised that he forgot to upload the slides, which means that students do not have it too. He rushed out of the class to try to ratify the problem.
Half an hour later, he came back and announced that he will give us break to go and print the power point slides. Unfortunately, students are not impressed as there should be a break whether or not there is a printing session. This simply means that there will not be a break because of that.
oh well, it happens.
Just when I thought that class is going to start (to cover previous materials which he left out because of 'time constrain'), he started to announce one by one the marks of assignment and quiz of each student in the seminar room.
Some excerpt:
" XYZ, ah, first class material, quiz high marks, assignment good quality..."
"ABC, ah, quiz not so good but assignment good. I respect you. You are better than me. I can see your pain in doing the assignment. Well, everyone can do it but it is painful. You are better than me, you are better than professors........"
"DEF, tsk tsk, both also not good, where are you? oh absent.. this is bad,........."
I shall not go on. For simplicity, just times each statement by 12 times. oh, these takes up 45 minutes
In between, he cracked some 'jokes' and made some statements....
" when apply for job, females should say that she want to be single! (raising his hands and laughing) No company want to employ you if you say that you want to balance work and family unless you work for government"
" you know, company that makes weapon are very powerful. They control the country.
" ok we will try to cover these materials. But my colleague do not want to cover this topic. Well, I am expert in this topic but they say that it is not important. It is important.............."
" ah then this topic we will also try to cover. I am also an expert in this topic. I am expert in the world....
With just one hour left ( out of 3 hours seminar), he let us off to print slides, saying that it is 10 minutes break.
So, printing......
back in class within 8 minutes and waits... Prof strolled in at the 20th minutes holding cup of coffee. Open his slides, turn volume to the maximum and started to play with his slides. Why the volume? because he wanted to put students in the star wars era with all the high pitch laser sounds he added into each and every single slides (previously was explosion sounds). So he click click click... While I hold my head, trying to withstand the onslaught of star wars......
< looking at summary page>.. "Ok we have to cover this but we do not have time (thanks to who?) so we will cover until.... . Ah this topic, I am expert on this....
<10 minutes later>, class starts with just 45 minutes left.
Suddenly, he came upon one slides with errors. It appears as a plain and simple error to me because the next slide counters the argument, so does text book (should be the word before instead of after) Without realising it, he rattles on (reading slides). After a while, he notice something funny with the slides. start to crack his head. Being the expert that he is, he started to develop his own theory to match the slide (contradicting himself a few times while doing so)
After some of futile attempts at explaining it(students busy copying down the rubbish that he is saying). I asked him if it should be 'before' based on the next slides. He looks at next slide and have a blank look on his face. Turn towards his 'first class materials' students and ask them " how do I reconcile this?" After some attempts at trying to make his previous speech make sense, he realise that he couldn't and skipping the whole thing altogether........
At the end,...
" people should be humble ( I totally agree)... then continues talking how he is expert in this and that...."
" I want you all to write a lot. I am expert in marking essays. For one point, write it out in different ways (where does the efficiency goes to?)"
Finally, time ends and he continue to talk about not enough time.. bla bla bla....
With all this, is it a wonder why I hate going to the class? LOL
