Amyelia

What a relief! Right now, I’ve gotten most of my big assignments out of the way, besides two – my Lead Work Teams group assignment and my Analyse and Present Research Information (a total waste-of-time subject, in my opinion) group research project. Tomorrow we will finally be hosting our morning tea event and then all there will be left to do is write up our report and present it to the class which, I hope, won’t be too difficult a task. Unfortunately, there’s one too many people in my team who are ever-willing to let other people pick up their slack, but right now I don’t care as long as we get this thing done and out of the way so we can focus on other assessments. And this Analyse and Present Research Information – oh my god, what is the point of a subject that consists of teaching you how to use the Internet and Library intranet to find resources and then referencing them?! Admittedly, some people have been out of loop with school systems and such for a while, but is it really imperative to have an ENTIRE subject on how to look up catalogues and how to write up a bibliography, and then having to do a substantially large, and somewhat difficult, written report to demonstrate what you’ve known how to do for years and could learn in a day? To add to that the teacher for that class wants to bitch about the lack of attendance. Lady, it’s a class at 8:30am on a Friday morning – did you really expect that that many people would show up? Shouldn’t this subject have started at the beginning of semester rather than in the middle? It would have helped a lot more if we learned how to reference when we still needed to do it – namely for assignments we had to hand in before this useless subject even began. Sigh. Oh well, I guess I’ve just got to grin and bear it for the moment. I can’t get my Certificate without passing even the stupidest of units. I really need a holiday. Luckily for me, and a lot of other happy TAFE students, there’s a long weekend coming up soon!

-Amyelia