MechaKingGhidra
2011-10-07, 09:43 PM
I couldn't really come up with a 'decent' title so apologies in advance.
There are pretty decent people out there that we get along with. We might just talk or we can be more influential on each others' personal or business lives.
But then you suddenly find out something that you just can't believe of the other person. You know it shouldn't be a real problem. You want to just shrug it off as you, personally, just being petty to take something so minor and make it a bigger issue than it really should be.
But then you get thinking about it and then realize it does indeed have long-term costs if you ignore it. Well, you're at a crossroads and you just can't do anything but vent a little and hope it gets better.
As such, I felt I would post a little story of what I have recently come across in regards to this and welcome others to do the same. I put it in spoilers in consideration for those who don't want to have to scroll past my likely weird perspective on the matter.
As someone who truly hates being "that guy" to ask others to repeat themselves as it quickly becomes annoying, I also detest not understanding what is being said for a variety of reasons. Clarity is our friend but some people don't understand that, it would appear.
However, as I am currently taking a college course in which the Business English portion of it requires routine vocabulary and spelling tests, I need a bit of confirmation as to what some of the terms being asked of us are.
I feel somewhat silly for the most recent time this has happened but I was becoming quite frustrated at the time because what should have otherwise been two of the simplest things to distinguish between was just an effort in futility.
My instructor is typically quite swell as she doesn't think herself to be "above" any of the students. She doesn't ignore questions outside the classroom as long as she's not overly busy but she's polite about it if she needs to say 'can it wait until next class?' which is rarely ever. And when she is not busy during off-class hours (either personal life or being asked questions *about* class, etc) anyone can relate to her as a person as a whole. I honestly respect her.
I felt the instructor was not stressing any portion of "conscious" and "conscience" well enough (if at all, it seemed like). I know it was a very minor % on a single test of many but I refuse to let little mistakes add up and surprise me at the end of how much it drops my total, overall mark.
The instructor doesn't have an accent and she didn't slur or speak overly quickly. She just simply didn't use enough stress on the most important part of each word. I even was looking at her face for stretched lips to see if perhaps that would indicate the "see-a" sound of 'conscience', whereas 'conscious' wouldn't have widened her mouth anymore than her just being silent. No dice.
The spelling/vocabulary test we had wasn't being dictated in the order of which the words came from our textbooks but *apparently* these two words followed after one another, only adding to the fact that at first I thought she was simply repeating the same word.
She wouldn't even use them in an appropriate sentence, though I did ask about it and I got the runaround of how that would be "too easy" and that I should have studied before the test.
Umm...what does that bloody-well have to do with ANYTHING? I *did* study (not that I needed to because that particular test was all composed of words any 5th grader should at least have some rudimentary understanding of, if nothing else) but I can't very well know what she was specifically referring to if she couldn't be bothered to make some form of distinction between the two if she wasn't going to stress the words (either verbally or facially).
I'm not psychic so...what; too bad, so sad? That's a slap in the face to someone genuinely dedicated to their education. I know too many people who got dropped a full letter grade because *they* let the tiny marks off their many miscellaneous works add up instead of taking a damn minute (if that) to make sure what the real deal was each time.
I know there's going to be more, likely similar, terminology errors as we progress into the content that is actually difficult on its own; let alone the idea of having to potentially hold anywhere from a 2 to 20-minute debate on why we should or shouldn't clarify what is required of us students in order to grasp the concept at-hand. :smallannoyed:
If this sort of incident continues to be a problem further into the semester, I am seriously concerned how it might reflect in my other classes with this instructor....
But maybe I'm just being really stuffy and altogether insane and it's perfectly normal for two people to butt heads like this and still get along swimmingly otherwise?
What do you think?
There are pretty decent people out there that we get along with. We might just talk or we can be more influential on each others' personal or business lives.
But then you suddenly find out something that you just can't believe of the other person. You know it shouldn't be a real problem. You want to just shrug it off as you, personally, just being petty to take something so minor and make it a bigger issue than it really should be.
But then you get thinking about it and then realize it does indeed have long-term costs if you ignore it. Well, you're at a crossroads and you just can't do anything but vent a little and hope it gets better.
As such, I felt I would post a little story of what I have recently come across in regards to this and welcome others to do the same. I put it in spoilers in consideration for those who don't want to have to scroll past my likely weird perspective on the matter.
As someone who truly hates being "that guy" to ask others to repeat themselves as it quickly becomes annoying, I also detest not understanding what is being said for a variety of reasons. Clarity is our friend but some people don't understand that, it would appear.
However, as I am currently taking a college course in which the Business English portion of it requires routine vocabulary and spelling tests, I need a bit of confirmation as to what some of the terms being asked of us are.
I feel somewhat silly for the most recent time this has happened but I was becoming quite frustrated at the time because what should have otherwise been two of the simplest things to distinguish between was just an effort in futility.
My instructor is typically quite swell as she doesn't think herself to be "above" any of the students. She doesn't ignore questions outside the classroom as long as she's not overly busy but she's polite about it if she needs to say 'can it wait until next class?' which is rarely ever. And when she is not busy during off-class hours (either personal life or being asked questions *about* class, etc) anyone can relate to her as a person as a whole. I honestly respect her.
I felt the instructor was not stressing any portion of "conscious" and "conscience" well enough (if at all, it seemed like). I know it was a very minor % on a single test of many but I refuse to let little mistakes add up and surprise me at the end of how much it drops my total, overall mark.
The instructor doesn't have an accent and she didn't slur or speak overly quickly. She just simply didn't use enough stress on the most important part of each word. I even was looking at her face for stretched lips to see if perhaps that would indicate the "see-a" sound of 'conscience', whereas 'conscious' wouldn't have widened her mouth anymore than her just being silent. No dice.
The spelling/vocabulary test we had wasn't being dictated in the order of which the words came from our textbooks but *apparently* these two words followed after one another, only adding to the fact that at first I thought she was simply repeating the same word.
She wouldn't even use them in an appropriate sentence, though I did ask about it and I got the runaround of how that would be "too easy" and that I should have studied before the test.
Umm...what does that bloody-well have to do with ANYTHING? I *did* study (not that I needed to because that particular test was all composed of words any 5th grader should at least have some rudimentary understanding of, if nothing else) but I can't very well know what she was specifically referring to if she couldn't be bothered to make some form of distinction between the two if she wasn't going to stress the words (either verbally or facially).
I'm not psychic so...what; too bad, so sad? That's a slap in the face to someone genuinely dedicated to their education. I know too many people who got dropped a full letter grade because *they* let the tiny marks off their many miscellaneous works add up instead of taking a damn minute (if that) to make sure what the real deal was each time.
I know there's going to be more, likely similar, terminology errors as we progress into the content that is actually difficult on its own; let alone the idea of having to potentially hold anywhere from a 2 to 20-minute debate on why we should or shouldn't clarify what is required of us students in order to grasp the concept at-hand. :smallannoyed:
If this sort of incident continues to be a problem further into the semester, I am seriously concerned how it might reflect in my other classes with this instructor....
But maybe I'm just being really stuffy and altogether insane and it's perfectly normal for two people to butt heads like this and still get along swimmingly otherwise?
What do you think?