Interpersonal Relations Course Summary

This was the worst course in my college career. It was a small class, 24 people. We were regulated like 6 year olds; set seating, total quiet, no questions, no laughing. The professor talked extra slow, but to his credit he warned about that at the first session. He kept saying that it is not a problem if we feel that we don’t learn anything, because by the end of the course we will. Well, I didn’t. There was a few optional reading and I opted to read the minimum amount I could get by: 1 article. We spent 4-5 weeks on creating and filling out forms that could have been done in one session, if we’d use excel as opposed to hand-drawn tables. The only printed material we had was printed because some secretary a few years had enough of students’ complaining that everything is hand written. But even those 2-3 pages we had in typed format seemed to have gone through several faxing and copying, reducing the quality to barely legible. The most annoying part was that the class could have been interesting. It was supposed to be about how liking and disliking develops, how relationships form. I did get a few concepts, but I could have learned those just by reading a few articles. To top it off I got a B+. I don’t even want to go to professors to ask why. 100% of the grade was based on the final paper we wrote. There was no sense of how we are progressing during the quarter. Brrr.