encounters

some very funny encounters from all the stories i've heard and experienced over the past couple of days during opening week at school:

:: PT slamming FT in front of a class. it doesnt really matter which corporation you've worked for, it's about the people factor.

it doesnt matter if you have worked with the national newspaper for 20 years. or your entire lifetime.

walking into class and telling students that what the FT has taught them is wrong really makes me wonder what sort of character you are.

it doesn't matter to me how good you are at your job. because the last i checked? i remembered having spoken to some people who may not have as much experience as you at the national newspaper, but have been far more diplomatic than you.

:: appearance of a last ditch attempt to get people to listen to you.

i just don't understand how a FT could walk in and then start extolling all the benefits he/she could afford his/her students. and all point towards, "scratch my back and then i'll scratch yours ( by ensuring you good internships, connections etc.)."

the last time i checked? i don't remember a change in the internship allocator nor have i behaved myself simply because of the connections you can provide me.. not to you, and never to any other lecturer for that matter.

and yes, this is the first time i've experienced just bartering in what may appear for hopes of a good semester and easier students to deal with. it's pathetic in my opinion, so much so that i'm totally stuffed.. that i have experienced it on an one-on-one level previously.

i fear the day when i lose respect for such people..

:: omg! why didn't i get that PT as my lecturer for this module?

i marvel at the perception that "my lecturer and my grades are correlated". it is in my opinion, that our grades are correlated insofar to our performance and our abilities.

if it had been the case that our grades were determined by the lecturer who takes us for a module? i would have simply gotten a very fat F for my Mass Media Research (mmr) module. after all, i could safely say that i was at a state of launching a war against my lecturer at that time. ( yes, this is REAL. you can go and check if you do not believe it.)

i know that i'm hardly the right person to dish out the advices, since i'm in the words of someone "notoriously famous". but beyond that, it's usually quite therapeutic to be introspective and share little experiences with others..