Me, Looking For Validation On the Internet?
Augh, I have to find a new class to take on Mondays.
I was really excited about my Japanese Culture class, since a) it fulfills one of my required credits, b) the course material looked interesting and the professor seemed enthusiastic, and c) I already happened to own the book the class uses as its main text. But when we went over the syllabus in lecture today, it said the class has a mandatory section which is 20% of the course grade, and which is offered on Wednesday from 3.15-4 and Wednesday from 4.15-5. And guess who has a (required for my major) course on Wednesday from 3.15-5?
So after the lecture I went to talk to the professor to explain that I had a schedule conflict with the offered section times, and was there any way I could work around that? And she basically told me that I was shit out of luck, and to drop the class. And okay, I understand that it is really hard to find room space for sections, and I don't expect her to go changing everything just to suit me. But this right here? This is why every other class I have been in with a TA section hasn't scheduled the section times until the first day of class, so they can find the time slots that suit the maximum number of people's schedules. I don't appreciate being blown off, and I don't appreciate being forced to drop a class because of a time requirement I could not possibly have known about ahead of time.
I don't know, maybe I'm better off not taking this class with this professor. During this conversation, she asked me if I was an East Asian studies major. When I said I wasn't, she told me I would have to get my Asian exoticism credit from another class. I don't know why she would think that of me after a two minute conversation in which I was nothing but respectful and enthusiastic about taking her course. But it really hit a nerve(since I'm always worried at the back of my mind that my interest in anime/manga/Japanese culture is somehow fetishizing/othering/ignorant/wrong, which is half the reason I've taken so many Japanese language/cultural studies classes, because if I'm going to be a consumer of their popular culture I can at least be an informed one), and I barely made it out of the room without crying in front of her. And obviously I'm still really bothered by it. So yeah.
Man, my lit classes tomorrow better be fucking awesome to make up for today's bullshit.
I was really excited about my Japanese Culture class, since a) it fulfills one of my required credits, b) the course material looked interesting and the professor seemed enthusiastic, and c) I already happened to own the book the class uses as its main text. But when we went over the syllabus in lecture today, it said the class has a mandatory section which is 20% of the course grade, and which is offered on Wednesday from 3.15-4 and Wednesday from 4.15-5. And guess who has a (required for my major) course on Wednesday from 3.15-5?
So after the lecture I went to talk to the professor to explain that I had a schedule conflict with the offered section times, and was there any way I could work around that? And she basically told me that I was shit out of luck, and to drop the class. And okay, I understand that it is really hard to find room space for sections, and I don't expect her to go changing everything just to suit me. But this right here? This is why every other class I have been in with a TA section hasn't scheduled the section times until the first day of class, so they can find the time slots that suit the maximum number of people's schedules. I don't appreciate being blown off, and I don't appreciate being forced to drop a class because of a time requirement I could not possibly have known about ahead of time.
I don't know, maybe I'm better off not taking this class with this professor. During this conversation, she asked me if I was an East Asian studies major. When I said I wasn't, she told me I would have to get my Asian exoticism credit from another class. I don't know why she would think that of me after a two minute conversation in which I was nothing but respectful and enthusiastic about taking her course. But it really hit a nerve(since I'm always worried at the back of my mind that my interest in anime/manga/Japanese culture is somehow fetishizing/othering/ignorant/wrong, which is half the reason I've taken so many Japanese language/cultural studies classes, because if I'm going to be a consumer of their popular culture I can at least be an informed one), and I barely made it out of the room without crying in front of her. And obviously I'm still really bothered by it. So yeah.
Man, my lit classes tomorrow better be fucking awesome to make up for today's bullshit.