Tag: joy

[31-37] Around mid-semester, I was finally getting the hang of things and got into a groove and was doing well in my classes and then the week before spring break our school decided to send everyone home early and now we’re not coming back at all. So, it’s been a little bit of a struggle to adjust to online classes despite being homeschooled, when I was, like all through K through 12. But this is week two, and I think it’s finally settling down. Penciled out the career map last week, which was the first week.

[38-45] My professors are having a hard time recording lectures. The engineering professors specifically, are having a hard time figuring out what they’re supposed to do because we have labs. For example, one of my classes is junior project that will go into senior project and we’re building a mobile 3D printer that will print house-like structures on Mars. Or, that’s the research we’re doing. And that’s a really hard thing to do when you can’t build it. So all of our papers and prototypes are all simulated. A budget that we’re supposed to spend by the end of the month. So, that’s been a little bit stressful. But, I think we have a game plan for going forward.

[433-442] Thermodynamics is probably going not as smoothly as the other ones. He already had a hard time teaching. This is his second year or third year. I’m in the middle of a take home exam at the moment and it’s seven pages long, and I’m going on 10 hours of work. I’m not done yet. His teaching style is not conducive with most people’s learning styles. This is my third class with him, so you just get used to it, and you understand what he means and he’s very kind. He’s trying. But it’s like, for example, thankfully we’re not in the classroom setting anymore, so we’re just doing lectures online. But that means that he goes through his PowerPoint and he just reads it, word for word, and it’s an engineering PowerPoint, so there’s not very many words.

[443-454] So, he’s just reading equations, like Delta X over Delta Y equals Lambda, over Lambda this, and just reads it. No pauses, nothing. He gets on the call, he says hello and then just starts reading, and there’s no inflection of the voice, it’s just straight reading for 30 minutes, because that’s how long it takes him to read the lecture. As opposed to […] Say, in the lecture we’re taking the full hour, because there’s back and forth. And even though it’s a Zoom call, nobody talks because that’s just not the way he runs his class. So, it’s a little weird. You just teach yourself and then you ask him questions via email if you need help. I guess he technically wrote the slides, maybe. I don’t know if he got them from the textbook, I don’t know if the textbook also publishes slides to go with it or not. So, he still meets with the criteria of interacting with students, but that class is a stretch. But so far so good. I don’t have an F or anything close to it.