Right now I’m enrolled in two classes: K201 (The Computer in Business) and G135 (Indiana Geology). Given my computer experience, I was fully expecting K201 to be a cakewalk, and thus far, that has been the case. Sarah took G135 in the spring and told me it was also an easy class; it’s an online course, so I don’t have to actually go to class — I’m just supposed to watch the lectures online or on TV when they air, as well as reading the text.
Well, I haven’t watched a single “episode” of this class yet, and I didn’t even buy the textbook. The only grades we get in this class are from three essays we have to submit, and my first was due on Monday by midnight. Naturally, I didn’t even have my topic picked out until late Sunday night, and I wrote the paper during part of the afternoon on Monday and in about another half hour before my K201 class started.
The first half of the paper was decent, but I completely mailed in the second half because I honestly just didn’t feel like writing the stupid thing and wanted to be done with it.
“Blah blah blah… limestone… blah blah blah…” > Save > email to professor > done.
I knew it wasn’t a very good paper (you can read it here) and wasn’t expecting anything higher than a C, but I checked my grade yesterday afternoon and I got an A on it, with this text in the email:
Congratulations! You have received an A on the first essay in G135. Although A`s are common in this class, the reason is not grade inflation but hard work by G135 students. Keep up the good work. If I can be of help, please contact me.
This, coupled with the fact that I’ve put little to no effort into any of my classes thus far and have yet to get anything lower than an A- greatly concerns me. The good grades are nice, but I don’t feel at all challenged, and I really don’t know if I’m learning anything. If all my classes are going to be this easy, I may as well take about five of them, skip class, turn in my assignments that I put hardly any effort into, take my good grades, and get the hell out of school with my high GPA and my stupid piece of paper that will make me a more attractive prospect to potential employers, who apparently don’t realize that if this is all college is, that piece of paper is (and I’m quoting one of my favorite lines from Top Secret here) about “worth less than a truck full of dead rats in a tampon factory.”
I’m just annoyed with all of this; I already feel like I am wasting my time in college since I don’t want to be there in the first place, but I need to get my degree so I don’t have to be an office lackey my whole life, and then I find out that I could do this in my sleep. Very frustrating.
In other news, I got my domain registered yesterday for the site, and as soon as I get a logo and stuff made, I’ll go ahead and let everyone know what it is. I think you’ll be pretty happy (or disgusted) with it.
