i usually cut people slack when it comes to grammatical and spelling errors, because i know i probably make tons of them too. shoot, i've probably made one already... and i know there are plenty of english nerds out there who absolutely cannot stand it when someone says something like "the monster ate george and I." of course it should be the monster ate george and me since the people getting eaten aren't the subjects in the sentence...
but c'mon you'd expect your chemistry professor to be able to spell words correctly... right? at least chemistry terms... wrong! i cannot believe how bad my prof is at spelling. i'm not talking about those infrequent i'm-a-little-tired today so i misspelled one word instances... i'm talking something more like, every class count how many words she can spell correctly. it's almost come to the point where i wonder where she was when you learn how to spell in elementary school. dood c'mon. so here are a couple classic examples of what i'm talking about...
1) "Mechanisum 1" okay maybe an honest mistake right? yeah so she writes under that... "Mechanisum 2" (where does the "u" come into that word... i have no idea)
2) she spells "need" like this... "nead" are you kidding me? a first grader can spell "need" blindfolded
3) "incorporated" as "encorporated"
4) "matterial" "fossile"
5) "consentration"
this is getting embarrassing so i am going to stop here...
so one time, she was writing some equations on the board and then she spelled something completely wrong. i think it was earlier in the year, so the whole class (at least the part of the class that wasn't sleeping in their drool) realized that 1) she wasn't kidding and 2) it wasn't just a careless error, when she spelled "balanced" "balenced" with a big fat "e" after the "l" and before the "n" and so everyone just busted out laughing. so then she says... "quiet down now class, some people ACTUALLY want to learn here." are you for real? apparently so.
every class i am closer and closer to raising my hand when she asks... "any more questions?" and say "yeah you spelled that wrong, and according to my log you've only spelled about 10 words right this entire quarter" i am serious... i don't even think she knows that she can't spell.
at first it was a little funny... now it's just sad.
good thing there are anonymous evaluations at the end of the year...
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i couldn't remember your blog site at first. i tried vince.blogspot.com and iamvince.blogpost.com and veeence.blogspot.com :(... then i gave up and checked your xanga
UCSD professors these days... sigh
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