So, at the beginning of the semester, I went up after class to my professors for stats and econ. I asked them if I could waive the class. They asked me about my coursework. I told them. They both said I could take another course if I liked, in a different department that would fulfill the same requirement, but I could not waive the course. I felt like I was caving in when I said “that’s okay, I’ll stay in this one.” <\/p>\n
If I’m going to be covering fundamentally the same already-known information, I’d rather do it with classmates I know. This isn’t helping my classmates, and it isn’t helping me, really. So, today I got the first test back from my econ prof. On the first half, which was true or false with explanations, I was told that my explanations lacked depth and I lost points. I lost no points on the second half which was dealing with the exact concepts that she graded me as having ignored on the first half, in greater depth and specificity.<\/p>\n
I went up to her after class and expressed my frustration. She said I should have opted into a different class. This reminds me a great deal of exit, voice & loyalty (still halfway through the book). Initially, I chose loyalty, while she recommended exit (to a course of dubious distinction relative to the one I’m taking). Eventually, I gave voice, and she reminded me that I’d chosen loyalty when exit was an option. <\/p>\n
Nobody walked away from that conversation satisfied. Both she and my TA recommended that I just stop coming to class save for tests. So she’s not even pretending that she has something of value to teach me in this course. And yet the bureaucracy (value-non-neutral) cannot bend. Following the rules is more important than not wasting my time. I certainly see I know the profs here have some experience, knowledge, and understanding which I would find valuable to attain. I wish I felt that were happening in all my classes, and for that matter, that it were happening efficiently and effectively in any of them. But either way, I’ll get a pretty piece of paper to hang on my cubicle wall at some point, and a network of friends and acquaintances in high places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, at the beginning of the semester, I went up after class to my professors for stats and econ. I asked them if I could waive the class. They asked me about my coursework. I told them. They both said I could take another course if I liked, in a different department that would fulfill … Continue reading “Playing the martyr is not recommended”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}