Graduate Professors

Ok... now I know there might be a touch of irony in this entry, but my gosh- I just got out of class today and there are two things I have decided that both of my graduate school professors do that insanely bother me:

1. They both speak faster than any one person should- in fact, I'd love to see a dual between both of them to see how many words they can say in a minute while completely confusing their class.
   
2. They both speak in scattered thought fragments. Now, I usually understand this type of thinking because, my brain goes a mile a minute too... however, when you are teaching a class you have to be succinct, eloquent, and clear, or else students are confused and ultimately get grades that don't accurately reflect what they know. And these are teachers teaching us how to teach, by the way. The scary thing is that I normally can't follow them long enough to tell when an assignment is due... however I have caught dangling sentence fragments between breaths that hint at an assignment, that cause me and the rest of my class to ask a question concerning this surprise event. I guess I'm just scared that all of my hard work won't be recognized if I come to class "prepared" only to find that something was due, unbeknownced to me.

Just to prove my point, I'm going to give you excerpts of the syllabus for my Law and Education class... this professor takes the prize for insanity! I couldn't include the whole document... but imagine a text file that wasn't converted and has sentences all over with format problems, extra spaces, extra returns in the middle of sentences... mercy! (p.s. the text highlighted in yellow is actually flashing on screen).

Actually this doesn't nearly show the craziness. But you get my drift right?