I have had one of the more mildly more frustrating afternoons of my days and just have to vent even more than I did to my friends. I want to get EVERYTHING out there and written down.
- WORST TEACHER AT CC First, I just have to go on about my para prof in my psychology class. Talk about high-school-esk bullshit regurgitated because the self-obsessed, uptight, condescending psychologists of the world (thank god this does not at all include my actual professor, who I like alot) aka the APA think what you capitalize, indent, parenthesize...etc MATTERS SO MUCH that they have practically turned it into a ticky tacky rule-filled religion. Today, she taught a lesson for an entire hour entirely about APA style formatting. Half of the time was spent telling us obvious crap we learned 10 years ago - 12 point font, double spaced, times new roman...etc. She even told us how to indent our paragraphs by using the tab button. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Anyway, as the meaningless academic crap went on and on, half the class pulled out their cell phones and shut themselves out because EVERYTHING she was reading to us from her lifeless powerpoint was typed out on an identical handout. The other half of the class tried to stay awake. People looked at each other laughing in amazement and frustration. 5 people didn't even show up. Those were the smart students. The worst thing about my teacher is that she giggles after she insults people and also in awkward moments. NOBODY IS EVER AMUSED- STOP GIGGLING. She is a Psych professional. You think people don't know you seem awkward and insecure when you do that!? She will literally be like "Yeah, well real psychologists don't quote. So why would you? *Giggle*" or "You could try a little harder to read the directions. *Giggle*". So annoying. Not sure I know anyone else that old who is that obnoxious and childish. Also about the para prof. rat in my class has been biting me and my partner a-lot and this same para-prof, despite the fact that we are so closed to being done and this lab is only 5% of our grade, is forcing us to use gloves which are thick enough to prevent our skin from breaking. Our rat will not focus and is very agressive. He will not complete the final training task despite all he did prior to his agression. The final task, which I believe he won't complete because he is angry at us for doing a training exercise earlier that forced us to not reward him, is to push a marble from one place to another to get a reward. We are 95% done! Just let us test out! Uh! This lady, I swear! Makes me madder at the rat than I should be.
- RESPECTING 9/11 My friends know that I think about 9/11 more than the average person. A New York Times poll this year said 1 in 3 New Yorkers think about it on a daily or weekly basis, which was really nice to know. Anyway, I came upon a 9/11 short film on YouTube called "Voices: a TakePart short Film". So many of the comments were very unsettling and upsetting. People really don't know how to be respectful and intelligent. As most of us know, this is especially true on Youtube. One person wrote, with an upsetting amount of "likes": "Whats the difference between 9/11 and a cow? You stop milking a cow after 10 years." Obviously disrespectful phrasing. I would hate to have lost someone very important to me and read that. It is true that 9/11 has been "milked" politically and used as a tool for mass murder in the Mid East. But, lets leave the cheapening of it to politicians who staged the Republican Convention in NYC to win in 2004. 9/11 tore up the lives of so many thousands- those killed, sickened, traumatized...etc. It's only right to remember the heroes and value the lives of all people lost, even if the event has been so terribly misused. In other words, think it is fair to point out how 9/11 has been exploited & used by both sides as a justification for a death toll far greater than 3,000. But it should not be forgotten or made into something insignificant by those who are tired of hearing about the pain it still brings so many people. My professor said the last block that we are too obsessed with 9/11 as a country. I'm so sick of this argument. 9/11 is such an incredibly important event, considering what it has meant for the lives of Americans since (airports, fear, politics, millions of troops fighting overseas...) and what it has meant for the Middle East (mass murder, destruction...). I don't think our so-called "obsession" with it as a nation is that unwarranted considering how big of a deal it is even today in the ways it affects what goes on in so many ways. Even in a simple way, it was the deadliest day in U.S history. You can't honestly be surprised that Americans talk about it so much since it was only 10 years ago and it was our deadliest day. My comment on the YouTube video (repetitive of what I've already said) was: "The death of Americans should not be specialized, nor should the deaths of those in the Middle East be as dramatically overlooked by the media and west as a whole as they are. But as a New Yorker, I recognize that it was the deadliest day in the history of our nation, I think it makes sense that we memorialize it so greatly. It is, however unfortunate that it has been used as a tool for death & destruction. So lets leave cheapening it to the GOP."
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