First School Frustration

Today provided my very first school frustration. I went into my ECE 312 class expecting to meet a new professor. She wasn't there. In fact, she showed up only for a few minutes and left rather abruptly. We had a stand-in.

Turns out, there's a position opening that she is the only faculty member eligible for. But in order to fill said position, she'd need to dump all of her scheduled ECE classes this semester. She's signing a contract on Friday if terms are negotiated appropriately. So today, we spent our full class session talking with our potential stand-in professor.

It was just a mess of crazy. She handed us her assignment sheet before saying that if our original professor turns out to be staying, it will be void. That our original professor will have a completely different syllabus. And that she herself has never taught out of the textbook I picked up for over $70.

It was a mess. Here's the kicker, the people who came hoping to get added to the classroom were told they'd have to come back on Monday as well to see who we even get as a professor. It will be decided over the weekend.

If it's our potential step-in, our original professor will e-mail us the step-in's syllabus (possibly as late as Sunday night) and we'll have a pop quiz on the syllabus on Monday morning.

I just think it's ridiculous and I'm frustrated that my original professor didn't just hand her class over and avoid this pigeon holing that's being down instead.