So, after a MUCH NEEDED 3-day Memorial weekend, it’s back to school.
I’m exhausted and burned out from school.

Yesterday I didn’t update because I spent nearly the whole day at my best friend’s house. It had been over a year since I had seen this friend (I won’t get into reasons why). Seriously, it’s been so long since I’ve been able to have fun and just hang out with my friends. We did nothing special, though. Ate brunch, bummed on the couch and watched tv, played with their cat…yeah, that’s about it. Pretty uneventful, but still very fun.

Okay, so I’ve been having personal issues with this one professor of mine. I’ve had her for three classes already, and she really is a great professor, but something happened last Friday that really made me see that she’s not one who can practice what she preaches, basically.

So, this professor is a professor of Sociology -particularly on topics such as, Racism in the US, Racism and Inequality…you get the point.

Anyway, since I’ve had her for three classes now, I know what to expect. So, when she assigns these papers called “critical responses,” I feel confident about writing it because I haven’t gotten less than a B on any of them in any of the classes I had taken with her. However, this quarter she has a reader that either doesn’t know how to properly grade papers or is on a serious power trip…I think it’s the latter.

So, in our critical responses, we’re supposed to have one scholarly article along with our other references. I specifically went to the library, asked for scholarly articles online, they directed me to the database, and I clicked a tab that specifically said, “scholarly writings.” And…coincidentally, the author of that article is the author of another article IN OUR TEXTBOOK!!! I get a C on my paper because my source according to the reader wasn’t “scholarly.” So, I went to my professor after class and told her my situation (and how even some of the text in my article could be found in another article in our textbook) and that I didn’t understand how this couldn’t be scholarly. How am I supposed to know what scholarly is now, if even a librarian directed me to it and if it said “scholarly?” She looked at my paper and said, “That’s not scholarly.” I said, “why?” She said, if you go to the campus library, ask them and they’ll be more than willing to help you find one.” So, not only did she not answer my question, but she also dumped her JOB on someone else -the librarians. I think she’s just left everything up to her reader (who isn’t like a TA that sits in class -the reader doesn’t attend our lectures, she just reads and grades our papers), and her reader isn’t capable. She’s left everything up to her reader, so basically anything ignorant that her reader says, she’s also going to blindly support.

However, what really gets me mad is that she preaches about all this inequality and racism, and tells us that we’re all human and we all deserve the same treatment blah, blah, blah. She specifically says in our lectures (ad nauseum) that if we’re in need of help, we can go to her and ask her and she’ll help us; if we have a problem, all we need to do is drop by her office and she’ll help us with our problem, even if it’s not class related. So she says.

However, I experienced NOTHING of the sort when I talked to her. She really doesn’t practice what she preaches. She couldn’t make eye contact with me, and she kept trying to change the subject and kept repeating that I should go to the library and ask them to help me find a scholarly article.

I don’t care if she has a doctorate (which she also talks about ad nauseum), she has just presented herself to me as an ignorant human being who really doesn’t care about treating all people equally. She dumps all her work on others, she talks about the SAME thing in every lecture -forget about following the topics of our readings…she goes on her soapbox and rants about the same thing over and over…in all three classes that I’ve taken with her -and one was a statistics class (with no relation to inequality and racism), she has poor management of class time, and she clearly has “favorites,” or “pets” in class…tell me, in a racism and inequality class, is having favorites really the way to go?!?

Great, now I’m all worked up. But, seriously, is this fair? Do you think this is fair?!? All the “evidence” seems to support my side and my views about her. Come on, how hard is it to at least give me a few more points…my article was scholarly!!!

I better end here. End.