If you have ever sat through a 3 hour lecture in University you would understand what I mean. A 3 hour lecture is just ridiculous, after the first hour your attention towards the professor has diminished continuing for another hour is just a waste of time. By the end of the 3 hours you would have learned nothing and you would be tired. Information would not have been encoded properly and you would not remember anything past the first hour. So why do Professors insist on talking for 3 hours with 10 min breaks between intervals, instead of 2 hours, or better yet an hour. I expect the professors to be tired from talking so much, talking is perhaps more energy consuming than sitting in a cramped chair for 3 hours. In my opinion professors who have lectures over 2 hours simply have nothing better to do with their time then to talk to students, they are those who can not think of any other place they would rather be than in the school. They have no place to be afterward when the classes end, they are the loners. Why is it that whenever hour classes end the professor always have places to go to? Think about it hour classes are rarely in the evening like from 11-12pm whereas the 3 hour lectures are always the latest time possible, around 6-9pm. Those professors just live a boring existence they are the ones with a weird accent and always stutter, unsure if what they are about to say. I may be a bit harsh here but face it, no one likes sitting in a 3 hour lecture in cramped seats listening to a man drone on and on about a picture and how it relates to human perception. We get tired and we stop listening, not only is it a waste of your time but it also wastes our time. Time we could be using to do something else. I don't despise those kind of professors and I have no evidence to support my claims against them, but it just seems like the logical assumption, why else would they stay so late. I mean they leave right after the evening class and they do not teach in the morning. No one should have to suffer through a 3 hour or longer lecture, in my opinion it just is not practical.
Sincerely
Schmoobs
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How ASSuming of you.. profs don't choose the time... they may hate them as much as you do. Tthe scheduling people do to make sure everything works. Jeese ... can you go an entry without making silly assumptions?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sinthu that profs probably don't choose that lecture time. Usually, the administration people schedule these night classes so that they can put a course in a spot where a lot of the students required to take it will be free. Unfortunately, there are many situations where our busy lives leave them with no other option but the wee hours of the night. Plus, if it only fits in our schedules one night a week, they have to make it 3 hours in order to meet a certain number of class hours per course in order to justify the credit obtained by the end of the term.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side, at least we don't have to attend it 3/4 times a week.