Have you ever felt what's it like to sit in a class and not understand anything? The teacher's just talking and you are totally blanked out. To me, it's one of the worst feelings ever. There's a pressure building in my head and all I want to do is to tell the lecturer to shut up. Wait for me.
Worse still, this lecturer makes it a point that we don't write/take down notes while he's talking. And he doesn't give notes. Rather he makes us fill in all those huge chunks of gaps. Just tells me how much spoon fed I have been by my teachers throughout primary and secondary school. That feeling of frustration is further enhanced when you actually see students who are able to understand, retain the information and take down their notes. All I think of now is running away from this class.
It sucks when you aren't an auditory learner. You just hear this jumble of words which swim in your mind. They threaten to overflow and make your brain juices leak. Ok I am just crapping. But yes, it's an horrible feeling.
Plan for next week: I am bringing in a voice recorder and recording his lecture. At least I can play back and absorb everything slowly at home.
I might as well update all my other stuff. My class did venipuncture on Monday for practical. It's the coolest thing ever. You need immense concentration on the needle and also ensure that your hands are steady. Strangely, now that I have tried it on another person, I am excited to do it again :D
Today is cca fair.And I am joining tennis! :D :D :D
Cheerio.
You'll be fine dear, don't worry. Just really concentrate on what the lecturer is going on about and you'll get it :) and btw i fear for the day when i would have to do venepuncture T_T
ReplyDeleteyou poor girl. hey im kinda suprised. this would mean this teacher(hmm i wonder whooooo) is being narrow minded about the differing learning capabilities/techniques his students have. he thinks he's outside of the box but he just ended up in another box.
ReplyDeleteTracy: Thanks girl! :) At times like this,I think we learn to be more flexible. When something doesn't work we learn to source out and find other ways to cope. Like I mentioned, I am going to record his lectures. As for venipuncture, I thought the same too. I wasn't ready till the moment I was about to poke. That's when I realized I shouldn't screw up and mustered some sort of courage :P And trust me, you would too :)
ReplyDeleteMin Li: You couldn't have said it better! So so true. And who do you think will come up with such an IDEA to conduct his class? In a way, yes, he is helping us to improve our short term memory..but using lectures as the real deal is not the way to do it.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you so much for really looking out for me. Alexis approached me today to lend her notes :)
Tell me about it! Haha. It's okay, sometimes I feel the same way too in some od my modules. It's just too... Overwhelming. I guess, the jump from year 1 to 2 is too meow :O
ReplyDeleteNevertheless jia you Niv! :D