Thursday, October 24, 2013
What did I learn
The answer to the above question is, according to test scores, apparently nothing. However I don't believe that test scores necessarily show how much someone has learned and I can go into a large rant about this however if that was the case this would be titled "Why grades are BS". In organic chemistry we have recently taken on substitution and elimination reactions. These are basically when a molecule loses a molecule or ion of something and in the case of substitution reactions gains another ion or molecule back. If this isn't correct well than it proves something else I learned. O Chem is hard. The average on this test was less than 50%. If anything else in the world was less than 50% it would be considered outdated or incredibly inefficient. Could you imagine if airlines where on time only 50% of the time? Or movies where only good 50% of the time? Your car only starts 50% of the time. this would be criminal, yet it is a normality in O Chem. I'm shocked there's more than 50% of the kids in there. In neuroscience I learned how we see which is one step short from magic. scientists classify light as a particle AND a wave. That is scientists almost saying "ya we have no clue what it is". Instead of saying its a particle and a wave, maybe we should, I don't know, invent a new way of classifying it. Instead of it has particle and wave properties it has.... Light properties. I can feel the Nobel coming my way. In sociology I have learned a great deal of info mainly about how the entire world forms who you are. A person in Japan sneezes and now I don't get married. The amount of jumps they make to how much you are influenced by your world is astoundingly hilarious. However I love Professor Whitworth so that's all that matters. In lit and civ I am learning about humor and blog writing. I can't believe some people get rich having blogs. Mainly because I personally have not read a blog in ever. in my 20 years of being me the first blog I have read turns out to be my own. Irony? Maybe we will have a session all about that in the coming weeks.
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When every you, Cam, and Hunter speak of your Pre-med classes I am always fascinated. First of all, the majority of the time I do not understand a single thing you guys are speaking of, as if is a foreign language. And secondly, I find it so odd that what I learn and the way my courses operate as a business major could be so vastly different from yours. Sometimes I wish that I was on the Pre-med track so I could relate to your studies more, and so I would be able to actually study with you guys.
ReplyDeleteBut no matter how different the material or the way our courses operate may be, I still find that the grading system to be flawed. Like you, I do not believe that the way the American schooling system quantifies a learning experiences, through test scores to be a an accurate or fair indicator. The vast majority of the time students study material to pass a test rather than learning it to be used as useful life applications. This mindset is twisted and wrong. Im not quite sure how but I believe there must be some better way of measuring gained knowledge.
I had Professor Whitworth last year! He's a really interesting guy. I took his class on sustainability. It's amazing just how much stuff we use up/waste. That's definitely one of the classes I've taken at TCU that challenged the way I see the world. Plus Professor Whitworth is just a cool guy, and he made the class a lot of fun.
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