Longest Rant Ever
If ever I had a reason to hate school, and some guy would tell me that I'd hate literature, I'd probably tell him he's out of his mind.. Well, by now though, I'd probably be taking my hat off to him, ask him how he foretold it, and implore him to take me as his apprentice in the art of "divination"...Welcome to the vile and disgusting world of Philippine Literature!!
Patriots and nationalists, I mean no offense... It's not that I hate the subject all unto itself (although come to think of it, I sorta do hate the Filipino guys and gals who rip off at every foreign literary imaginable... Heck, there'd probably be a davinci and potter rip-offers in less than a decade).. But try having a dumb, idiotic, nincompoopic numbskull of a professor for it and you'd know how I feel... Of course, not wanting to be hypocritical, I'd have to admit that Phil Lit goes way below on my list; I really don't like it and I probably never will.. Heck, I'd take Chinese poetry anytime (albeit I don't really understand every word of it, at least there's a lot more substance in it).. But going back to the topic, allow me to say, that our literature professor is downright stupid... For one, we have essay writing as part of our requirements... Heck I'd probably understand if it was English 102, which focuses on the writing skills (we already took that last term though) And I'd also probably understand if it were book reports on Philippine novels, or perhaps reaction papers on short stories and essays written by Filipino authors... But NOOOOOOO.. We're not going to write book reports and reaction papers or suckh... We're actually "asked" to write essays... ONCE EVERY MEETING.. Let me repeat that: ONE ESSAY PER HOUR.. Like remind me what course we're exactly taking?? Correct me if I'm wrong but it's Philippine Literature right??
But that's just the start of it... I'm not exactly sure if I ever told you about my "ever-beloved" Rizal prof who would just assign reporters for every topic and sit her ass out for the entire period... When second term ended, I was definitely elated, partly because I knew we wouldn't have drawing classes again, and partly too because I was not going to see that fat-assed prof anymore.. Well, I am right, to some extent, since we really are not going to see her again, but we found her crap incarnate in the git we call our "literature professor".. She gave us a list of 50 Filipino essays and assigned one for each of us to report every meeting.. Cool, no???
Failing all that, our finals, which IS supposed to be written, (heck, even P.E. finals are multiple choice type or matching type W-R-I-T-T-E-N exams), is going to be a play... Yeah, play as in acting whatchamacallits... And one has to suspect she's going to declare it's an operatic one, since she ominously hinted that "Noone's is going to pass this subject without singing".. To top it all of, she has an extremely soft voice, which was pointed out... Know what she did?? She looked airily at him (the guy who pointed it out), and then made her voice lower... Not softer mind you, lower as in deeper.. Like the opposite of falsetto.. Talk about one of the biggest shitbags in the history of the whole wide world.. And the list goes on; we'd have something sort of like show and tell next week (what are we elementary kids??), she doesn't stick to the topic, and she doesn't even know what "with a grain of salt" means... Hey, we didn't ask her just to prove how stupid she is; we kinda didn't realize then that she IS stupid.. But what happened was that she asked us what it meant and when noone knew what it was, it was natural for us to ask, right?? And when we did, she never gave a reply, and dismissed it as if she never heard it.. Who do she think we are?? Her incarnates who have a voice as deep as hers?? Freaky how a woman (or is she?? I'm kinda doubting about her sexuality now, although it is still merely a hunch that a bunch of us thought of us so I'm not going to discuss it until I'm entirely certain about it) could have such a low voice.. as in "male" low... and she gave us a ton of papers to read and research on, and all this transpired within barely an hour and a half!! And of course, there's that fact that she's stupid and that she is just one of those teachers who think the subject she's teaching is what we're majoring on.. Get the picture?? G-I-T.
On another note, shades of my second term are coming back to haunt me, as two of my professors back then are my professors again this term... Two of my worst nemesis at that.. Remember sir Lopez, my trigonometry prof last term who never really knew how to explain bearings???? Well he came back to teach us physics this term. Dumb rotten luck, wish it was Prof. Amon instead... And mam "Chit" Javier who gave multiple choice types of tests for her geom, comes back to haunt us in Turbo C programming, which I do intend to learn wholeheartedly, seeing that I barely, barely learned anything from Visual Basic, save a few simple "if-then-else if" strings... And yeah, mam Javier as in the git who gave us seatworks on cone frustums way before she even explained what a frustum was.. Of course, new subjects, new term, so although I'm highly doubtful that I'd like them anymore than I did last time, I'd give them both the benefit of the doubt and a second chance to redeem themselves from the "stinky", "sucky" status that they brought upon themselves..
We also have Filipino, and although this was definitely never my forte, I'd think Prof. Paulino would be a good teacher so I really don't dread it that much (yet)... It's really kinda difficult to say from this standpoint, 'cos we met for barely an hour and she never discussed what our requirements were; she just went straight to teaching.. (a rarity nowadays although she pales greatly in comparison to our calculus professor..)
And speaking of our calculus professor, it's really impossible to hate him.. As in ASTIG with a capital G.. hahaha.. but seriously now, he's arguably the best teacher I have ever encountered... Of course, we have Mam Amon from first term on behalf of Algebra and Mam Torres for the second term on behalf of Chemistry who were great teachers as well, pero SHUCKS.. Sir Butch just rocks; good sense of humor (not toilet humor thankfully, 'cos it makes me sick especially when I remember that maniac Llanes who gave me a taste of 3 on drawing..)... He knows his stuff well, and not just "know"... There are a lot of teachers kase na they are probably knowledgeable about this, kaso hindi kayang mag-explain ng mahusay.... Sir Butch allocates a mere hour for every lesson, but he teaches it very well.. Hindi tulad ng iba papatay-patay, hindi rin naman maintindihan, tapos magka-cram sa huli... Sir Butch on the other hand, fast teacher; magdaydream ka lang ng 10 seconds, nasa next example na, pero kung nakikinig ka, maiintindihan mo talaga, and just for thee record, hindi ka rin naman makapag-iisip pang magdaydream kase he makes it so interesting and so easy, and calculus is definitely not an easy subject to teach... Most of all, he doesn't have the air that 98% of the profs have... The air na kumbaga pinaparamdam niya na siya professor ikaw estudyante lang.. Kulang na lang gusto pa nilang iluklok mo sila sa pedestal.. Pero si sir, he makes us feel na he's part of us and we're part of him, kahit na "beterano" na siya kumbaga.. Kung may napoint out ka na hindi niya originally naisip, like let's say, there could be three coordinates para sa unknown vertex tapos ang binigay lang nya isa, and pinoint out mo yun, magtethank you pa sa iyo... Hindi tulad ng iba, pagnagpointout ka, kulang na lang irapan ka pa.. In fact, iirapan ka na talaga... Hahaha.. Sir Butch=the best ever.. And he's also our adviser.... Yipee.. = )
Other profs no showed us, specifically our philo prof and physics lab instructor... And we didn't have P.E. classes yet; as it would officially start this Monday... Haaaay, sana talaga pumasa ako sa Sepak.... Fingers crossed...
Oh well, til here... I've ranted for one whole hour already.. Hahah... I still have to do a lot of advance reading pa eh.. Specially sa turbo C, ayokong wala namang matutunan, lalo pa't ECE ako.... May inhinyero bang hindi marunong magprogram??? Hehehe.. All psyched up, I guess..
And reminds me, to the noblest man each of us know.....
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY !!!
Un lang.. Heheh.. Cheers everyone.. Here's hoping for a better future..
posted by Dexter @ 6:08 PM
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