my teacher is annoying me. i finished college a while back already, and taking this evening course at the community college is beginning to feel more painful than rewarding.

for one thing, i'd forgotten how incredibly uncomfortable those wannabe desk chairs are, and that sitting jam packed with fellow students under fluorescent lighting for three hours can give you quite the headache.

i can understand what my instructor is attempting to do; she interjects a most boring lecture, with her current personal anecdotes to entertain us.

that's fine.

but i really don't like the fact that she needs constant feedback from the class to let her know that we're "still alive", and that she stresses the importance of grades to me, when i have a "B" so far. my performance, apparently, is partially based on, how much i speak up in class, my attendance, as well as the usual criteria. i've attended every class, except for the first, which was due to a high fever. so i lost 30 points from that, what am i supposed to do?

i'm just content with the new knowledge i've assimilated.

my curse (or blessing, dependent on the context) of being asian, is that i appear to be a few years younger than my actual age. thus, i have difficulty in being taken seriously.

i concluded last week, that my teacher was simply concerned about the progress that we're making in her class, and that if we need more assistance, she should know. so i replied to her email (one that expressed concern over my grade), with an explanation of where i am in life, and that i'm simply taking the course to further my knowledge. i sincerely thanked her for her concern.

...but last evening, as she was chiding the class about "B"s and "C"s, she mentioned a few times, that her performance as a teacher is rated by the institution according to the performance of her students, and that we should all be making "A"s.

my "concerned teacher theory", went completely out the door.

the first time she joked about that, i allowed it to pass, but the second and third times that she mentioned it...not funny.

anyway....i'm being whiny...i know...but i needed to gripe.