Drama Week

So after an exciting weekend, I had an interesting week at school.

The course we're doing now is Measurement and Analysis. So this week was dedicated to Statistics...great! (hope you smell the sarcasm). Our teacher is not a trained statistician and it was evident, but she's a nice-enough person so initially we were ok with. But then things got to a point where she was unsure about stuff and that confused the class more...but we still hanging in. One incident was a matter of who's right/who's wrong and the class was not overly happy- she said something in class that skewed our thinking along a certain line, but then on a graded assignment, she marked us down for our alleged misunderstanding.

On top of that, we got back our papers for another assignment in the same course and the grades were atrocious! The worse part is the feedback was lacking substance, and included areas that we thought were irrelevant. My paper, for eg, contained comments that x is available from a particular website, but as luck would have it, said site has been down for weeks! I aint sure how exactly I'm supposed to access info from such sites... or that it was overly important. On top of that, some people who went to him were told they could extend their paper beyond the stipulated 3 pages (but in the context of them not being able to fit all they thought they need to on the 3 pages), yet some of us were not privy to that info since it wasn't communicated to the entire class by the lecturer. So, with my suggestion, the majority of the class went to the programme coordinator and voiced our concern. So, on Monday of next week, we'll be meeting with the person responsible and sort things out.

To add to all that, a friend's/classmate's mom died on Thursday night. She's coping well so far. She's even opted to remain in the programme without much time-off. But I do hope to be there for her when she needs me.

A new friend (through a friend) had offered to take me on a tour of the island today. I postponed it, so hopefully we can go in two weeks. I thought that was really nice of him. He's a fellow J'can as well. Hopefully I can get to meet his gf as well because she did the same master's programme few years ago (dif. specialisation though).

Hopefully this weekend and the week coming will be good- great even.