I. Am. In. Class.
In. This. Class. The. Professor. Is. Writing. And. Debugging. Fucking. ASP. dot. NET. Code. On. His. Laptop. In. Front. Of. The. Class.
It. Is. NOT. Compiling.
There. Are. No. Unit. Tests.
So he is staring at it, changing random crap, and recompiling to see what happens.
Nobody. Is. Learning.
Not. Him. Either.
There are correct words for this. The word is not ennuitic. The word is not frustrating. Not ridiculous. Not unproductive. Not even exasperating.
I don’t think the word is an English word. It would need to encompass all of those.
This is the sort of thing that makes me feel bad, on so many levels, about graduate school. For me, for the instructor, for the System. All broken. All stuck, each with the other.
Blood, sweat and tears.
But I have to assume it is at least entertaining ?
To quote Gerd Gigerenzer, “Trying to change an university is like trying to move a cemetery.”
It’s amazing some of the things that qualify as higher learning these days.
A f[r]iend once pointed out that my goal in coming back to school is to fix the meat grinder from the inside.…