The meme I chose to describe my time at Baruch so far was one that describes the types of professors I have. In high school, most notes that I had to copy or write down were written on the board and the teacher would orate them, which gave me time to write. In college it is different. Some teachers write down notes but most notes don’t even make sense. The notes are more like their own personal notes, meaning they are choppy and not developed. You copy them down and understand them at the moment and you think you will know what the professor meant by his or her notes but when you go home to review the notes they look like they were written in a different language. Meanwhile I have other teachers that know their subject so well that the whole class consists of them speaking. At this point, all hell breaks loose as students pen page after page of notes, trying to catch everything important the teacher says but forgetting half the stuff. This has happened to me a countless number of times. I go to write down something important the teacher said and while I’m writing the important thing, the teacher starts saying something else and I lose my train of thought and forget what I was supposed to write.
At the same time the teacher tells you to know certain things on the test but they say it so fast that you don’t even catch what they said and then you struggle during study time. It probably gets annoying for the person next to you because you keep asking them what the teacher said over and over again. I feel that all professors should put their notes online so that studying and reviewing is a lot easier and clearer. Plus if a student misses a day of class, he or she wouldn’t have to ask other people for the notes because they would be readily available online. So going back to the meme, I know a professor has a lot to go through in one class period since classes don’t meet everyday but they could honestly speak a bit slower.
Some of my friends told me that their teachers tell them “don’t worry it is in the textbook” if they tell the professor they didn’t catch something. The funny part is that the information is not in the textbook. This makes things so much more complicated for no reason. I hope I get better at taking faster notes because I know the professors won’t be slowing down anytime soon. Or I hope I start to realize which notes to copy and which notes I can get by without knowing because I have a lot of “useless” stuff that doesn’t even pertain to the topic we are learning or taking a test on. I’m pretty sure other people would agree with me on this topic and hopefully we all get better at this because we have three more years of this to go through.
