Students and other animals

If you happen to be a student at one of our internationally famous (as one of my prof. used to say) universities, you have the honor and privilege to study in a highly competitive, innovative and fruitful environment.

Today I decided to visit one of my lectures, just to see  what is going on. Don’t get me wrong I tend to be a good student and rarely miss my classes but after the first 3 times of the professor not coming to the lecture the rational part of me said – “That’s just waste of time.”

To my “surprise” there were only 8 other colleges of mine in the room. The lecturer entered and began explaining the material using the highly innovative “Listen to me, and watch the slides!” technique, apparently this lack of students was something normal for him . There was hardly any interaction with the rest of us, however. On that part I may understand him, maybe because of our high attendance, or maybe he was just such kind of teacher. On the good side the material was interesting and offered some useful things and even further sources to look into. There were also a handful of examples, which were not confusing, but tried to explain further the material. So in conclusion of this part: I gained enough knowledge from this lecture, just because the material was interesting to me and is possible to be of some use in the future.

Many of the students that enter the university don’t have an idea what they want to work after that and/or don’t even have goals or dreams. Consequently  they can’t find the need to study and the feeling that this may be useful for them in the future. Yes, some lecturers are bad, but come on people, that’s for us. After all who else cares for us?