...Stupid People...

Ok, so I'm just going to start this blog out by admitting I have like zero patience, for kids, driving in the car, waiting on anything, but most of all stupid people. I'm not referring to stupid in the sense of being not smart, I'm mostly referring to people who can't listen to directions the first time around, so they inevitably end up needing special help when they can't figure out what is going on. Such was the case in class last Thursday.

There is such a thing as a teacher who can't teach, and then there is something else called "people who just don't pay attention/listen to directions". Luckily for me, Dr. Tuggle CAN indeed teach, even though a lot of the class didn't comprehend exactly what was to be done in Access. This is mostly because a lot of people are used to being held by the hand and guided through practically everything. These are the same people whose Mommy & Daddy are paying their Chapman tuition, who are driving around their brand new luxury car, who spend most of their weekends partying their a**es off just because unlike the rest of us, they firmly do believe that money grows on trees.

I, unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you spin it, am not among this privileged crowd. Mom & Dad do not pay for school, did not buy my car, do not send me weekly/monthly allowance. I spend all of my free time on the weekends at my part time job. Working to pay my tuition that loans and grants do not cover, pay my rent, and hopefully have a little bit of money left over for food. So, it aggravates me to no end that when I am busy paying attention in class to get the most out of a lecture, or demonstration, that there are people there who just couldn't care less and ask questions for which answers were given just a few minutes prior.

Dr. Tuggle teaching Access was more than likely the highlight of my long, strenuous school week. As long as you understand basic concepts and how to navigate the most basic tools, the assignment in class was a breeze. Not to say that by trying to work ahead I didn't make a few mistakes here or there, but you certainly didn't see me raising my hand and disrupting everyone else's learning time simply because I wasn't willing to put the work into fixing something that was my own fault for not paying close attention. As daunting as the Access worksheet looked, it was fairly simple to follow step-by-step and arrive at the correct solution (query). I find it completely ridiculous and unnecessary that Dr. Tuggle felt the need to apologize for what he considered a botched demo. What's embarrassing is that people just can't grasp easy concepts, follow along at a steady pace, and cannot work with a partner instead of calling the professor over to fix even little errors.

I actually wish that we had more than a few days of learning Access and database construction, as they both seem like valuable skills to acquire. At this point in time, I don't have any information of mine that I create into a database, but if the opportunity comes along, I feel that I will be prepared.