Uni has started again and I couldn't be less enthused. I always expect the first week to be frustrating and boring because it's either talking about the course outline or bombarding you with equations. However, this week was worse than most for two reasons.
Reason the first: MMAN4400
This is a professional engineering class that I need to complete. Every Monday at 9:00am I've got a 3 hour lecture. This may sound bad, but it's made worse by the fact that it's not really an Engineering class. It's an ethics class encouraging Engineers to think about legal issues and moral dilemmas. For those that know me, you might think that I would like this type of class. NO. It's frustrating and simplistic. However, despite the course content and the bad timetabling, the course might become decent because at least my lecturer speaks fluent English and at least he's a little bit enthusiastic about how he teaches.
Reason the second: MMAN3400
You may have heard me rant about other subjects like MMAN3110 before. In those rants I talked about how pathetic my lecturer was and how my education was being held hostage by an incompetent fool. As it turns out, the lecturer for MMAN3110 is the same lecturer for the class MMAN3400. Shit. It's really disappointing because the course content seems amazing! It's very math based and it relies a lot on a special part of physics which is a strength of mine. To give you a brief understanding of how bad my lecturer is, I'll need to walk you through the first 20 minutes of my first lecture.
1: He refuses to turn on the mike (leaving 1/2 of the students in silent limbo)
2: He reads off the slides page by page without making annotations or corrections to the typos in the documents. Something a 6 year old could do.
3: Has a unique (almost impressive) monotone. This is something I'm used to in UNSW, but when it's coupled with a lack of enthusiasm and a powerful Indian accent - it's tough to stay awake.
I guess this semester will be no different to many others. I suspect I'll end up buying some over priced books and inevitably end up teaching myself the subject from the comfort of my own room.
