Monday, February 06, 2006

Biostat

I seriously am feeling ill will towards my biostats class.. not the students in my class, but just the class as a concept as an idea, as an entity. I spend way too many hours on just a few problems, only to come to class to find that what I struggled with was a typo in the assignment, or that what had seem intuative was completely false. It was a bit of a boost to find that I was probably the only one in my class to get the proof problem correct, but that's all thanks to my dad. I would never have been able to understand it if he didn't walk me through most of it first.

But I can sense such an animosity and frustration in my classmates towards my professor and the subject that I am starting also feel sorry and sympathetic towards him. I'm believe he is trying, I really do. But many of the students when they approach him are hostile and I think that may be why he sometimes seems cross. I mean, I think I'd be as well. So, yeah, I think I'll be focusing my attention on understanding rather than blame pushing...

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