That is frustrating. My advice is drop the class or go to another school.

If that's how the instructor wants to teach and the book that he wants to use that's how he'll teach. He probably learned from past experience and positive feedback from students who prefer to have the book loose instead of being bound. Can't win all of them.

It's been a year since you last posted, so I'm guessing you're graduating soon and this will all be behind you.

1-27-11 is hardly a year.

4-9-2010
1-27-2011

BigMac;168901
Is it just a coincidence that with all the books to choose from, they chose a book that doesn't exist outside of the college?

It's no coincidence. They really are trying to fool us into making outrageous purchases. Someone in my class was given a book used by a student who took the same accounting course, and with the same professor a semester earlier. However, this book has binding, a different looking cover, and a different ISBN#, but its contents are totally identical to the unbound, over priced book that the college is requiring us to get.

I did a search using this book's ISBN#, and got results. It's a good thing I held off on buying the college's exclusive ripoff book. I purchased online what is virtually the same book for $30, which includes shipping.

The professor said this is his first time using an unbound book, and so far, students have been complaining that not having binding is a problem. This is my last semester, so yes, this will all be behind me soon, but I'm just amazed right now.

It's absolutely shocking how ruthless they are.

I wonder what future students will go through. Perhaps they'll be spending around $150 on textbooks that are printed on used paper towels, and with no binding, or with chewed bubblegum for binding. Meanwhile, the college will make sure that the ISBN#s of these textbooks are changed every semester so that they don't match any books available outside of the college, and the visual appearance of the covers will be changed too. This will ensure that students are fooled every semester into buying new and overly expensive textbooks from the college while costing the college next to nothing to supply the textbooks.

I got hosed last semester; one textbook was an ‘exclusive’ printed for my college, and the others, while available online (sans codes), were bundled with access codes so I had no choice but to buy new.

This semester I got lucky; two books from Borders (cost me $60 for both with some coupons), one used from the college bookstore and the most expensive one I was able to borrow for free.

The professor of that accounting class with the overly expensive and unbound book made a comment, and I feel the need to discuss it.

He said that it's been statistically proven that extroverted people have sex more often than introverted people. He and everyone else in the class thinks it's shyness causing introverted people to be less talkative around woman, thus making them less sexually active. However, I don't believe this is the main reason why, or even a reason why.

Your typical extroverted man wants to be very social. He enjoys talking with his friends, and one thing men love to talk about with their friends is sex. Boasting about sex is often a man's way of showing off and looking dominate in front of others. The extroverts want sex so they have something to boast about in front of their large circle of friends. Therefore, extroverted men will tend to have sex more often than introverted men.

It seems that's why women become so upset when they discover that a man has been telling others about their sex life. She knows then that he is not interested in a serious relationship, instead she is merely a tool for him to gain social status with.

That's also why homosexual men seem to be so hated by heterosexual men. No matter how many women a heterosexual man has sex with, the homosexual will never be impressed. Therefore, he must be ridiculed so that the heterosexual remains dominate.

This also seems to be the reason why men often bring up sex related issues during arguments. When a man has nothing intelligent to say and is feeling like he is being beat in an argument, he'll suddenly blurt out something such as, “Have you ever even kissed a girl before?”, “Have you ever had a girlfriend?”, or “Have you ever had sex?” These types of questions can often be seen on YouTube. It appears that out of desperation he tries to look dominate by bring up sex, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand. These people should be regarded as talking monkeys.

Fortunately, I'm not one of them.

Nix;169596
Fortunately, I'm not one of them.

That's good. One of the most annoying things about them is that when you show signs of aggravation, they take it as a sign you're becoming jealous. Even though you're only getting aggravated because they're acting like talking monkeys.

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The professor for my computer class is not what I would consider a lousy teacher, I would consider him as incompetent. I understand that every teacher has their own way of teaching, and every student finds certain ways better than others. However, this professor doesn't seem to even know the subject matter he's teaching. The purpose of this class is to make us “advanced” with Microsoft Office programs. Unfortunately, with this professor, that's not going to happen.

I won't list each way he has shown his incompetence as a professor, but I will give this one example. A student asked him how to do something in Microsoft Excel, and his response was, you don't need to know that for any of your assignments, so don't worry about it. Who cares whether or not it's needed for any of the assignments? We should know it for when we finish. That student will look foolish if he were asked to preform that task with Microsoft Excel after having said he took a class for it.

Now here is what I think is interesting. I'm taking a human resource management class as an elective, and during a discussion about diversity, the professor said that the college was desperate to get more black professors. She said the number of black professors was too low for the number of blacks in the geographical location of the college. I can only assume now that this is the reason for the computer class professor still being there. As a black professor, he helps the college have a good statistical image with diversity, even though he occasionally needs to call for technical assistance just to turn on the overhead projector.

It makes me wonder, how ridiculous does the situation need to be before people regard competency over diversity? What if you got onto an airplane and discovered that the pilot was incompetent at flying, but because he was of a different race and because the airline company wanted more diversity among their pilots, they let him fly anyway? Would that be ridiculous enough?

If someone cannot preform a job correctly, we should not allow that person to do it, regardless of nationality or race.

Nix;169596
Fortunately, I'm not one of them.

That's good. One of the most annoying things about them is that when you show signs of aggravation, they take it as a sign you're becoming jealous. Even though you're only getting aggravated because they're acting like talking monkeys.

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The professor for my computer class is not what I would consider a lousy teacher, I would consider him as incompetent. I understand that every teacher has their own way of teaching, and every student finds certain ways better than others. However, this professor doesn't seem to even know the subject matter he's teaching. The purpose of this class is to make us “advanced” with Microsoft Office programs. Unfortunately, with this professor, that's not going to happen.

I won't list each way he has shown his incompetence as a professor, but I will give this one example. A student asked him how to do something in Microsoft Excel, and his response was, “you don't need to know that for any of your assignments, so don't worry about it.” Who cares whether or not it's needed for any of the assignments? We should know it for when we finish. That student will look foolish if he were asked to preform that task with Microsoft Excel after having said he took a class for it.

Now here is what I think is interesting. I'm taking a human resource management class as an elective, and during a discussion about diversity, the professor said that the college was desperate to get more black professors. She said the number of black professors was too low for the number of blacks in the geographical location of the college. I can only assume now that this is the reason for the computer class professor still being there. As a black professor, he helps the college have a good statistical image with diversity, even though he occasionally needs to call for technical assistance just to turn on the overhead projector.

It makes me wonder, how ridiculous does the situation need to be before people regard competency over diversity? What if you got onto an airplane and discovered that the pilot was incompetent at flying, but because he was of a different race and because the airline company wanted more diversity among their pilots, they let him fly anyway? Would that be ridiculous enough?

If someone cannot preform a job correctly, we should not allow that person to do it, regardless of nationality or race.

I completed my degree in May, but ironically, the most frustrating thing happened to me after I finished. Luckily, it all ended well though.

As I said in my previous post, my computer class professor is horrible. Turns out he is so bad, that he cannot even grade students correctly. Expecting around a B for a final grade in his class, I was highly disappointed to see a C-, worst grade in all my college years.

I assumed he had mistakenly placed another student's grade under my name, since I had seen him make careless mistakes all semester long. However, the professor insisted that there were no mistakes, and even e-mailed me two MS Excel documents to show how I was graded. After I had reviewed his e-mail and those documents, I realized that he had failed to follow his own syllabus policies!

But what he told me after I had pointed out that the syllabus policies were not followed was what I found most shocking. He told me that I had cited little “convenient” portions of the syllabus, and that it wouldn't change anything.

Well, unfortunately for him, his supervisor saw things a bit differently. A few months after having filed a grade appeal, a letter from the college arrived at my house, saying that the professor's supervisor investigated my complaints and agreed to have my grade changed. I now have a B, which I think is great!

I feel a little bad about the other students though. I'm sure many of them failed or got lousy grades all because the professor was too incompetent to follow his own syllabus. It's amazing how a college professor actually gave a syllabus full of false information to his students, causing many of them to fail. I mean, that's just… unbelievable negligence. I'm still not sure, but I think the college has fired the professor.

That reminds me, I just want to make note that my accounting professor, the one who said that extroverted people have sex more often than introverted people, has been fired. He'd always make sex jokes while teaching, so I guess they eventually got rid of him.