People who don’t cover their coughs and sneezes! Did these people not go to Kindergarten? Have they never been inside a health clinic or doctor’s office and seen the signs about covering coughs and sneezes? The signs even have pictures! People who spread their skanky germs are thoughtless, inconsiderate, rude, illiterate, what else?
Ringo not accepting fan mail any longer. I always meant to send him a letter or card, and now I can’t. I’ve heard he’s relaxed his original threat to throw all fan mail in the trash, but there really is no assurance if I send him a card that he will read it. Wondered why he was suddenly so busy. I know I had thirty years to send him a card, and I should have, but maybe I was really busy. In case he reads this blog all I really want to say to him is: Ringo I love you!!!
The difference between myspace and facebook.
How breast cancer pink really pisses me off. (I was diagnosed with breast cancer this past year so I can say this.) I never felt like the whole cancer thing was a battle, and I don’t feel like a survivor. You go through your treatment, recover for six months or so, and keep going on with your life. Hopefully. Okay, there’s always that. Hopefully. But still going through treatment is what you do to get better just like with any other disease or illness. Any person would do the same.
Americans dying on the overpass in New Orleans in 100 degree heat after Hurricane Katrina while waiting five days for the calvary to arrive. I am still so furious over this atrocity.
Chris Brown belongs in prison. Rhianna needs one courageous person in her life who can break through her delusional smoke screen of fantasy. I wish I were her mother so I could be that person.
More on the cancer subject. Chemotherapy was bad, but they give you good medications to manage the symptoms. Don’t be afraid of a diagnosis; it really is doable.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Lauren Kilroy - Worst Art History Professor In the World
I would never take another class with this professor. After receiving all ‘As’ for the last eighteen months at the U of O I changed this class to ‘Pass-No Pass’ after receiving a 65% on my mid-term. I have never received less than a ‘B’ in any class, and this includes science classes. I received an A- in Professor Hurwitt’s class that began this series of western art history. Hurwitt’s class was tough, especially for someone like me with no art history background, but Hurwitt’s class was fair, relevant, and organized, and his style was consistent and understandable. The astonishing difference between Professor Hurwitt’s class and Kilroy’s leaves me wondering: What does that tell you about Kilroy’s class and method of teaching?
I can tell you that Kilroy’s method was ‘throw it out and move on;’ ‘throw it out and move on.’ Confusion reigned as she jumped around from one time period and region to another. Instead of focusing on a few choice examples Kilroy would show five or six examples of the same style of piece, four of which we would be required to memorize for tests. Kilroy skipped over better known sites such as the Pisa complex and Notre Dame saying hopefully we would get a chance to visit some day. As if that was even a remote possibility. So I still know nothing about these sites other than what I have been able to learn on my own.
Any complaints were met with: “This is art history. Get used to it!” She said this more than once. Usually after relating some story about how tough she had it in art history during college and how she didn’t have a monument list to work from. Oh, yeah, her monument list. The first list had nineteen definitions we were suppose to memorize! We were responsible for 130 images for midterm which is roughly 26 per week for the first five weeks prior to midterm, or nine per class - this in addition to voluminous weekly readings and a weekly paper on the readings. While interesting, the papers were costly to print and read. For example, the paper for the seventh week was put in Blackboard with a wide black edge around it which would have made printing extremely expensive. The paper was unavailable elsewhere online (JSTOR, library book, etc.), and the poor quality of the Blackboard copy made it impossible to copy and paste only the text portions. By the seventh week of this class I had given up anyway. I stopped wasting my time attending Kilroy’s jumbled lectures. With a Pass-No Pass at least she can’t screw up my GPA.
I won’t be taking the next in this art history series because she is teaching. In fact I plan on finishing western art history at Lane Community College, and I do expect to receive an A. I hope someone in the art history department takes a serious look at Kilroy’s teaching methods and that changes are made. Kilroy should be made to sit through a complete series of Professor Hurwitt teaching Art History. Yes, Kilroy, we do cover the highlights from the period so students will know they are the highlights!! We don’t overburden students with copious pictures of the same sort of image because one or two choice samples will suffice. You organize lectures to flow in a comprehensive manner rather than throwing out multiple examples… Ah, I give up.
But I have to say this was the second worst class I have ever taken, and I have been trying to obtain my degree for over twenty years. I am an older returning student who went through treatment for breast cancer this past year including surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. I lost all my hair and it is finally starting to grow back. Believe me when I say I know what is important and not important, and I have the maturity to know a good and a bad professor, and Kilroy is the worst, absolute worst waste of time I have ever dealt with in college. Thanks for ruining my entire scholastic plans this year, Kilroy. With the set back of having art history knocked out of my schedule this term and next, which totally screwed up my graduation plan, I have decided to transfer to Marylhurst University beginning Fall 2009.
I can tell you that Kilroy’s method was ‘throw it out and move on;’ ‘throw it out and move on.’ Confusion reigned as she jumped around from one time period and region to another. Instead of focusing on a few choice examples Kilroy would show five or six examples of the same style of piece, four of which we would be required to memorize for tests. Kilroy skipped over better known sites such as the Pisa complex and Notre Dame saying hopefully we would get a chance to visit some day. As if that was even a remote possibility. So I still know nothing about these sites other than what I have been able to learn on my own.
Any complaints were met with: “This is art history. Get used to it!” She said this more than once. Usually after relating some story about how tough she had it in art history during college and how she didn’t have a monument list to work from. Oh, yeah, her monument list. The first list had nineteen definitions we were suppose to memorize! We were responsible for 130 images for midterm which is roughly 26 per week for the first five weeks prior to midterm, or nine per class - this in addition to voluminous weekly readings and a weekly paper on the readings. While interesting, the papers were costly to print and read. For example, the paper for the seventh week was put in Blackboard with a wide black edge around it which would have made printing extremely expensive. The paper was unavailable elsewhere online (JSTOR, library book, etc.), and the poor quality of the Blackboard copy made it impossible to copy and paste only the text portions. By the seventh week of this class I had given up anyway. I stopped wasting my time attending Kilroy’s jumbled lectures. With a Pass-No Pass at least she can’t screw up my GPA.
I won’t be taking the next in this art history series because she is teaching. In fact I plan on finishing western art history at Lane Community College, and I do expect to receive an A. I hope someone in the art history department takes a serious look at Kilroy’s teaching methods and that changes are made. Kilroy should be made to sit through a complete series of Professor Hurwitt teaching Art History. Yes, Kilroy, we do cover the highlights from the period so students will know they are the highlights!! We don’t overburden students with copious pictures of the same sort of image because one or two choice samples will suffice. You organize lectures to flow in a comprehensive manner rather than throwing out multiple examples… Ah, I give up.
But I have to say this was the second worst class I have ever taken, and I have been trying to obtain my degree for over twenty years. I am an older returning student who went through treatment for breast cancer this past year including surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. I lost all my hair and it is finally starting to grow back. Believe me when I say I know what is important and not important, and I have the maturity to know a good and a bad professor, and Kilroy is the worst, absolute worst waste of time I have ever dealt with in college. Thanks for ruining my entire scholastic plans this year, Kilroy. With the set back of having art history knocked out of my schedule this term and next, which totally screwed up my graduation plan, I have decided to transfer to Marylhurst University beginning Fall 2009.
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