OK. I've got to get this off my chest. School. Now I've got nothing against it. Good place. Place to learn, to make friends, and all that good stuff. Today was my first day back, had two weeks off, I enjoyed it. Now there's a sign on the library door that says that I can't bring in food or drinks. I understand the policy behind it, I just don't happen to agree with it. I mean, personally, I've led men into combat, gathered intelligence crucial to the war, been shot at, and blown up. All of which I've done successfully (if you're wondering) and yet I can't be trusted with a water in a twist-top container around a computer? Just because some moron with a sub-zero IQ can't handle something as difficult as water doesn't mean other people should suffer too. People, take the training wheels off, it's time to ride or fall down. Can't spend your entire life with floaties on your arms in case of emergency, either you can or you can't. If you can't, good, then you won't be able to pass on your defective genetic material to the next generation.
Secondly, since this was my first day back I needed to get the books for my classes this quarter. I showed up early because I needed to turn in some financial aid stuff. I had my class schedule but I needed a stamp from the financial aid office in order to pick up my books. OK, well, how hard is that? The bookstore was open, the financial aid people had enough time to fall off chairs, so I asked. I was told no. When I inquired why I was told, "because it wouldn't be fair to the other students." I stopped right there because if I continued that argument would only end with a gunshot. WHAT? What the hell does getting my books now instead a little bit later have to do with fair? Oh, I'm sorry, am I not contributing to the massive traffic jam later? My bad. I thought that I would alleviate some of the traffic by doing my "fair" share now. And no, there wasn't any shortage of books for my particular classes, oh, so someone that wasn't doing anything would have to cross my name off a list? I'm sorry, I thought that was part of your job. Hey, if you want I can do it for you. People some times. Think about the Big Picture. "It is the policy of the school." Isn't a good answer either.
Just look at this. I mean I'd get fired for violating that policy any day. There are things that are just plain stupid and don't need to be followed. Yes, I'm all for abiding by the laws. Most of them are in place to protect the people, the rest are just made up by a bunch of morons that I elect not to listen to. Don't call 911? For any reason? What the hell is that all about? Uh, guess what, I'm breaking that policy when I feel it is necessary.
Not what I was expecting but maybe that's just because my mind was in the gutter. Interesting. First students, now the babysitter? At least the kid was honest.
I love it when governments don't give details. No military nomenclature? No test date? No additional information about the explosives? Look, in my mind I tested this new bomb that was 4x as big as the MOAB that used this new explosive, but I haven't named it nor have I even bothered to do it in real life. C'mon, what's the point of having this bad-ass bomb if no one believes you?
Agreed. This guy got what he deserved. Dude, that's like walking around New York City earlier today wearing a white t-shirt with "Terrorist" printed on it. Who'd blame anyone for beating the crap out of them?
To answer this young woman's question. No, flowers in the background aren't props, it's "background" that's why it is the description. Yes, the tree is a prop. Good eye. For someone that's interested in acting, you sure can't discern between the two can you? That's OK, as long as you're pretty no one cares about the gray matter between your ears.
Showing posts with label school rant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school rant. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
share dreaming
Almost done with my first quarter of school. Whew. So far my lowest grade is a 94. Of course these are all introduction classes and don't really count or have any substance. So we'll see how I am doing once I really get into it. On the upside, I also got credit for 9 other classes, transfer credit from my old college. I didn't really think that I'd get credit for 9 classes. I mean, a year and a half worth of college and I'm pretty sure I failed nearly all of my classes that last semester. Oh well, I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.
2005. Glad we're up to date on that issue. But to be honest, swallowing magnets? Maybe nature's way of saying that this girl's genes aren't the best quality.
I guess it would have to be a musical. Who would've thought that a rigged reality TV show would not make a great Broadway show? Maybe the theater version of Lost? That could rock.
Animals can pick locks? The hell? It can't be that hard for me then right? Or maybe they're really, really smart. Since my initial success (beginner's luck) I haven't picked a lock. Of course I haven't practiced that much. Maybe that's my problem?
2005. Glad we're up to date on that issue. But to be honest, swallowing magnets? Maybe nature's way of saying that this girl's genes aren't the best quality.
I guess it would have to be a musical. Who would've thought that a rigged reality TV show would not make a great Broadway show? Maybe the theater version of Lost? That could rock.
Animals can pick locks? The hell? It can't be that hard for me then right? Or maybe they're really, really smart. Since my initial success (beginner's luck) I haven't picked a lock. Of course I haven't practiced that much. Maybe that's my problem?
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
by the numbers
My final report for my Criminal Justice class I have to select a TV show, movie, or book that relates to the field and how it relates to it/how accurate is it? I've had some weird ideas for my paper. At first I thought I'd be unique and maybe use a show like Night Court, Cop Rock, or Police Squad! just to stand out. Night Court had too many seasons to go over and both Cop Rock and Police Squad under less than 10 episodes each. Oh well, it was a good idea right?
So my next thought was maybe Numb3rs or maybe Bones, all I knew was that I wanted to stay away from the mainstream shows like CSI or Law & Order. Numb3rs utilizes mathematics to help solve crimes while Bones covers the forensics of a case. Both are very cool and I like them but what really grabbed my attention was a new TV show Spike called Murder. The basic premise of the show is that two groups of three people are thrown into a murder investigation from the crime scene to finding the suspect. The people are not law enforcement people, just run of the mill people that probably watch too much CSI and Law & Order. It's funny to see all of them trying their best, but they're not detached enough. They're emotional, letting their feelings and "intuition" lead them to bad conclusions. Yes, you should heed your intuition, but it shouldn't lead you to places, just point you in a direction. I mean these guys are coming to conclusions just by half-examining a crime scene and a mugshot. Not even processed data or a coroner's report, but jumping down each other's throats because of their feelings about the case.
Blah.
Put it down! Put up posters across local fast food places saying don't serve her. Um, tell delivery places to not take orders from the house. Compulsive eater my ass!
I do believe that the justice system should favor the victim in the punishment phase. Let this guy choke the crap out of his son's killer. Oh no! We can't have that! Killing the killer doesn't bring back his victims. Absolutely. I agree. But it does prevent any future victims from suffering the same fate. If he lives maybe he'll kill again, maybe he won't, I don't know. What I do know though is if he's dead, he won't kill again. Definitely. Guaranteed.
Hehehe. I thought my dad was kidding when he said that the cat (Max) gets all of the money if he dies. I guess more people think that's funny too.
So my next thought was maybe Numb3rs or maybe Bones, all I knew was that I wanted to stay away from the mainstream shows like CSI or Law & Order. Numb3rs utilizes mathematics to help solve crimes while Bones covers the forensics of a case. Both are very cool and I like them but what really grabbed my attention was a new TV show Spike called Murder. The basic premise of the show is that two groups of three people are thrown into a murder investigation from the crime scene to finding the suspect. The people are not law enforcement people, just run of the mill people that probably watch too much CSI and Law & Order. It's funny to see all of them trying their best, but they're not detached enough. They're emotional, letting their feelings and "intuition" lead them to bad conclusions. Yes, you should heed your intuition, but it shouldn't lead you to places, just point you in a direction. I mean these guys are coming to conclusions just by half-examining a crime scene and a mugshot. Not even processed data or a coroner's report, but jumping down each other's throats because of their feelings about the case.
Blah.
Put it down! Put up posters across local fast food places saying don't serve her. Um, tell delivery places to not take orders from the house. Compulsive eater my ass!
I do believe that the justice system should favor the victim in the punishment phase. Let this guy choke the crap out of his son's killer. Oh no! We can't have that! Killing the killer doesn't bring back his victims. Absolutely. I agree. But it does prevent any future victims from suffering the same fate. If he lives maybe he'll kill again, maybe he won't, I don't know. What I do know though is if he's dead, he won't kill again. Definitely. Guaranteed.
Hehehe. I thought my dad was kidding when he said that the cat (Max) gets all of the money if he dies. I guess more people think that's funny too.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
halfway around the world
OK. Rant I shall. I need to otherwise I'll explode. Now I preface this by saying that I like ITT-Tech as a school. So what's my issue? My gripe? This intro classes. They hire professionals in the fields they teach, which is great I think. I'd rather be taught about police procedures by a cop instead of some professor that's never been in the field. So the 1st week or two my problem solving class was being taught by someone (Rebecca Gaddy) that probably was around when they invented electricity. I don't know what her field of expertise is but it isn't math.
She admitted to the class that she'd only be two weeks ahead of the class. OK, that's fine. I like honesty and I understand that she has a limited time to prep. So I don't expect her to give detailed information about the weird subjects we're learning but she can't even convey the simplest information that she is supposedly teaching. We were learning binary numbers in accordance with the book. 0001. 0010. 0011. So on and so forth. That was Part One. Part Two was add and subtract binary numbers. I don't have background in binary so I have to rely on her expertise. Except that she left out some crucial steps, not by accident but because she didn't know it herself! Her answer to our questions was "Um..." I made some comments that 2nd week and she stopped teaching the class.
We were given a good guy, Ogega, and actually learned. He had to take two weeks off, so who'd we end up with as a substitute? Dumbass Gaddy. So Tuesday we were doing a lot of different things, learning basic statistics, graphing, and stuff of that nature. The second hour was supposed to be dedicated to Fahrenheit and Celsius and using graphs to illustrate the difference. Easy right? Maybe do about ten minutes worth of work. She didn't even know what the assignment was! Instead of working on the classwork she was reviewing graphs for ONE student. While she was reviewing the rest of us were attempting the classwork and part of homework assignment. We were quietly working on our work, not bothering anybody or even talking.
Gaddy stops in the middle of her sentence and demanded our attention. Then she goes on about this rant about how it's rude for us, the quiet ones, to be working on our classwork while she was "teaching" and blah blah blah, how we're spending money to come there and learn so they should learn! OK, that pissed me off. She had the audacity to assume that she was TEACHING us something? Still, I kept my mouth shut. Otherwise I'd end up kicking her ass up between her shoulder blades.
Back to Fahrenheit and Celsius, the classwork. The first part was easy, graph them. The graph would give us a pictorial representation of the conversion. She attempted to show us how to graph them, but she couldn't follow the basic directions given in our book. Graph, OK. What should be our intervals? So we selected the intervals for her, class participation is good. She made a mistake right from the get go, I tried to point it out but to no avail, so I made the comment to someone across the room, "well this should be interesting." She completed the graph wrong and then noticed that she had done it wrong. It was interesting to see her redo the whole thing. The second part was to convert the graph in an algebraic equation, then compare the two methods. Difficult, but not impossible. Still, she didn't have a clue what the algebraic equation to convert them. I had accidentally stumbled upon the right answer but I couldn't confirm it.
I understand that it was problem solving, but SHE DIDN'T KNOW THE ANSWER HERSELF! Aren't teachers supposed to know the answers to the problems they pose? I actually went to the computer lab next door to find the answer, print it out, and handed it to her. You know what her reason she didn't know the answer? "Well it's a problem solving class. It's supposed to teach you how to solve a problem. First comes the math and then the problem." OK, WHAT THE F**K kind of answer is that for not knowing the classwork for the teacher? On top of that she didn't even teach the math portion! She couldn't!
I'm not saying she's a bad person, or even a bad whatever the hell her official profession is. What I'm saying is that she's a horrible teacher for Problem Solving. She can't teach to save her life! Some people just aren't teachers, that's fine. Just accept your limitations. It's a good thing 85% (yeah, I did the math) already know most of the math associated with this class, otherwise we'd be screwed if she 'taught' us.
I feel better now, I felt bad while typing it but I'm better.
She admitted to the class that she'd only be two weeks ahead of the class. OK, that's fine. I like honesty and I understand that she has a limited time to prep. So I don't expect her to give detailed information about the weird subjects we're learning but she can't even convey the simplest information that she is supposedly teaching. We were learning binary numbers in accordance with the book. 0001. 0010. 0011. So on and so forth. That was Part One. Part Two was add and subtract binary numbers. I don't have background in binary so I have to rely on her expertise. Except that she left out some crucial steps, not by accident but because she didn't know it herself! Her answer to our questions was "Um..." I made some comments that 2nd week and she stopped teaching the class.
We were given a good guy, Ogega, and actually learned. He had to take two weeks off, so who'd we end up with as a substitute? Dumbass Gaddy. So Tuesday we were doing a lot of different things, learning basic statistics, graphing, and stuff of that nature. The second hour was supposed to be dedicated to Fahrenheit and Celsius and using graphs to illustrate the difference. Easy right? Maybe do about ten minutes worth of work. She didn't even know what the assignment was! Instead of working on the classwork she was reviewing graphs for ONE student. While she was reviewing the rest of us were attempting the classwork and part of homework assignment. We were quietly working on our work, not bothering anybody or even talking.
Gaddy stops in the middle of her sentence and demanded our attention. Then she goes on about this rant about how it's rude for us, the quiet ones, to be working on our classwork while she was "teaching" and blah blah blah, how we're spending money to come there and learn so they should learn! OK, that pissed me off. She had the audacity to assume that she was TEACHING us something? Still, I kept my mouth shut. Otherwise I'd end up kicking her ass up between her shoulder blades.
Back to Fahrenheit and Celsius, the classwork. The first part was easy, graph them. The graph would give us a pictorial representation of the conversion. She attempted to show us how to graph them, but she couldn't follow the basic directions given in our book. Graph, OK. What should be our intervals? So we selected the intervals for her, class participation is good. She made a mistake right from the get go, I tried to point it out but to no avail, so I made the comment to someone across the room, "well this should be interesting." She completed the graph wrong and then noticed that she had done it wrong. It was interesting to see her redo the whole thing. The second part was to convert the graph in an algebraic equation, then compare the two methods. Difficult, but not impossible. Still, she didn't have a clue what the algebraic equation to convert them. I had accidentally stumbled upon the right answer but I couldn't confirm it.
I understand that it was problem solving, but SHE DIDN'T KNOW THE ANSWER HERSELF! Aren't teachers supposed to know the answers to the problems they pose? I actually went to the computer lab next door to find the answer, print it out, and handed it to her. You know what her reason she didn't know the answer? "Well it's a problem solving class. It's supposed to teach you how to solve a problem. First comes the math and then the problem." OK, WHAT THE F**K kind of answer is that for not knowing the classwork for the teacher? On top of that she didn't even teach the math portion! She couldn't!
I'm not saying she's a bad person, or even a bad whatever the hell her official profession is. What I'm saying is that she's a horrible teacher for Problem Solving. She can't teach to save her life! Some people just aren't teachers, that's fine. Just accept your limitations. It's a good thing 85% (yeah, I did the math) already know most of the math associated with this class, otherwise we'd be screwed if she 'taught' us.
I feel better now, I felt bad while typing it but I'm better.
Monday, July 09, 2007
damn the man. save the empire
School News - Well, some of my credits transferred from DePauw to ITT Tech. Yup, got credit for 9 classes, mostly just the basic stuff and general education. Hey, I'll take it basically I'll get to graduate 6 months earlier. Of course the big problem with those classes is the simple fact that I haven't had done them since like 2000. I may have problems later on but it gives me something to look forward to.
Also, I had an interesting Intro. to Criminal Justice class. We were discussing the court system, state and federal. Cool stuff, and then we did a sort of activity with the bond system. We had various criminals in which we had to determine whether or not we would detain or release with bond and how much. I can say this for our class, though we may have different backgrounds and we're very different peoples, we pretty much all agreed on this. 4 out of the 5 "criminals" would've gotten pre-trial confinement, no bail, and no chance in hell of getting out of there without a conviction and lots of prison time.
RUTHLESS! You're determining whether or not they should be confined or released on bail or whatever. What would you do? Oh, these people are fictional so don't worry about hurting their feelings.
1. Salvadore L. is a 52-year-old farm worker who cannot read. He has a wife and two children. L. was charged with smuggling guns, marijuana, and other narcotics across the Mexican border. The prosecutor, when discussing the case with the news media, says that he suspects L. was involved with guns and drugs for years but, until now, has avoided being arrested by authorities. L. claims that he is completely innocent and wouldn't know what marijuana looked like if he saw it. Should he be detained or released? how much bail would you set in order to release?
2. Roger K. is a 27-year-old electrical engineer. K. is charged with vehicular homicide stemming from the death of Chris P. P. was stepping out of his pickup truck when K. sped down the wrong side of the street. K. was drunk at the time, according to police. The police also learned that he had eight previous convictions for drunken driving and 19 other serious vehicular offenses. Should he be detained or released? How much bail would you set in order to release?
3. Edward S. is a 50-year-old single man who has a good-paying full-time job and lives in an expensive high-rise apartment. He is charged with the statutory rape of a 16-year-old, sexual abuse of two others, and corrupting the morals of a minor. It is alleged that he paid to have sex with hundreds of boys, but on all occasions the young men agreed to participate. The maximum sentence that he can receive for his crimes is five to ten years. Savitz has tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Should he be detained or released? How much bail would you set in order to release?
4. At the age of 19, Frank A. was convicted of rape and sentenced to prison for three years. Approximately one year after his release, he became a suspect in a number of robberies of women. He threatened a number of the victims with bodily harm if they filed complaints. One 21-year-old victim nevertheless agreed to cooperate with the authorities, and Anderson was arrested and charged with robbery. Shortly after his initial appearance, he was released on bail. Anderson then broke into the 21-year-old woman's house, beat her, kicked her numerous times, and then stole $3000 and a gun. The victim suffered a concussion and needed seven stitches. Anderson was identified and again apprehended and was charged with an additional count of robbery. Should he be detained or released? How much bail would you set in order to release?
5. An 18-year-old girl, Kim W., was arrested for shoplifting. She claimed to be indigent (poor), with no steady source of income; she lived with an unemployed boyfriend; and she had dropped out of school in the eleventh grade. She had one prior arrest for shoplifting, but those charges were dismissed for unknown reasons. Should she be detained or release? How much bail would you set in order to release?
Discuss.
Also, I had an interesting Intro. to Criminal Justice class. We were discussing the court system, state and federal. Cool stuff, and then we did a sort of activity with the bond system. We had various criminals in which we had to determine whether or not we would detain or release with bond and how much. I can say this for our class, though we may have different backgrounds and we're very different peoples, we pretty much all agreed on this. 4 out of the 5 "criminals" would've gotten pre-trial confinement, no bail, and no chance in hell of getting out of there without a conviction and lots of prison time.
RUTHLESS! You're determining whether or not they should be confined or released on bail or whatever. What would you do? Oh, these people are fictional so don't worry about hurting their feelings.
1. Salvadore L. is a 52-year-old farm worker who cannot read. He has a wife and two children. L. was charged with smuggling guns, marijuana, and other narcotics across the Mexican border. The prosecutor, when discussing the case with the news media, says that he suspects L. was involved with guns and drugs for years but, until now, has avoided being arrested by authorities. L. claims that he is completely innocent and wouldn't know what marijuana looked like if he saw it. Should he be detained or released? how much bail would you set in order to release?
2. Roger K. is a 27-year-old electrical engineer. K. is charged with vehicular homicide stemming from the death of Chris P. P. was stepping out of his pickup truck when K. sped down the wrong side of the street. K. was drunk at the time, according to police. The police also learned that he had eight previous convictions for drunken driving and 19 other serious vehicular offenses. Should he be detained or released? How much bail would you set in order to release?
3. Edward S. is a 50-year-old single man who has a good-paying full-time job and lives in an expensive high-rise apartment. He is charged with the statutory rape of a 16-year-old, sexual abuse of two others, and corrupting the morals of a minor. It is alleged that he paid to have sex with hundreds of boys, but on all occasions the young men agreed to participate. The maximum sentence that he can receive for his crimes is five to ten years. Savitz has tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Should he be detained or released? How much bail would you set in order to release?
4. At the age of 19, Frank A. was convicted of rape and sentenced to prison for three years. Approximately one year after his release, he became a suspect in a number of robberies of women. He threatened a number of the victims with bodily harm if they filed complaints. One 21-year-old victim nevertheless agreed to cooperate with the authorities, and Anderson was arrested and charged with robbery. Shortly after his initial appearance, he was released on bail. Anderson then broke into the 21-year-old woman's house, beat her, kicked her numerous times, and then stole $3000 and a gun. The victim suffered a concussion and needed seven stitches. Anderson was identified and again apprehended and was charged with an additional count of robbery. Should he be detained or released? How much bail would you set in order to release?
5. An 18-year-old girl, Kim W., was arrested for shoplifting. She claimed to be indigent (poor), with no steady source of income; she lived with an unemployed boyfriend; and she had dropped out of school in the eleventh grade. She had one prior arrest for shoplifting, but those charges were dismissed for unknown reasons. Should she be detained or release? How much bail would you set in order to release?
Discuss.
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