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There oughta be a law!
Papersatan:
There oughta be a law (or a policy anyways) that professors have to release the syllabus one week before class starts.
All of my classes have been scheduled, with an assigned professor, for months. But they keep releasing the course site and its materials (syllabus and course readings) <12 hours before the first class. This is particularly annoying when they expect you to have done readings for the first class.
I am trying to make a semester scheduled which outlines all the assignments I have and has a hyper linked list of all my required readings. This helps me stay organized as the semester progresses and I get frazzled and can't even keep track of what I am supposed to do, let alone do it. It is, however, a lot of work to compile the syllabi into one pretty and easy to glance at document. I like to get it done before I have to start doing actual work. I also like to have it done before you invariably ask us to sign up to do extra work in a week, because then I don't schedule my presentation or my 5 page reflection paper for the week that I already have 12 things due.
Classes started Wednesday, but 3 of my 5 classes are on Tuesday, so none of them have activated their course websites yet. The other two were on Friday and they both activated it on Thursday night, and both expected me to have readings done for the first class (though I was sick and didn't go to either one anyways).
Barmymoo:
I would complain about that to whoever is in charge of course quality. Expecting you to have done readings which you only found out about less than 12 hours before the class is unacceptable. If they expect you to respect their time and not waste it by not doing the work and then asking for "help" (which often means "can you just give me a good grade even though I didn't do any work?") then they should respect you by remembering that you have lives and are not machines.
Is it cold in here?:
There ought to be a law that building numbers and house numbers should be in a standardized location and size so that you can find them while driving without being dangerously distracted by the task.
Carl-E:
But this is 'Murrica! Freedom of... house-numbering...
Oh Kat, I'm still working on my syllabi for Monday... :evil:
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Jan 2013, 17:08 ---There ought to be a law that building numbers and house numbers should be in a standardized location and size so that you can find them while driving without being dangerously distracted by the task.
--- End quote ---
Hear, hear!! Fuck that "freedom of speech" shit, here's the new rule: if you're EXPECTING someone to find your house, and your house number is either not visible, not in the right place, or too damn small...that's a paddlin'!
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