this masters degree is worthless

I AM TOO TIRED TO SWITCH BETWEEN CAPITOL AND LOWERCASE LETTERS so if you have a problem with that, then stop reading now

this masters degree is worthless.

that's what I said.

worthless.

the program prides itself in catering to teachers and on giving us lab experiences that can enrich our classrooms and make us better teachers.

that's a joke.

the labs that we have done are so elementary and basic that most are things that not only did we do in school ourselves when we were students, but we could teach in our sleep hanging upside down from our toenails.

college classes showing us how to do middle school and high school labs????? wtf? that's what we do for a living! we are professionals for crying out loud! you can't teach us how to do something that we do day in and day out.

i would benefit more from hearing lecture and research updates from scientists and writing research papers.

case in point: the laboratory techniques in biology class. this class would have been fine if there was no lab component. haha. i got a whole lot more out of the brief, ten minute lectures than any other part of the class. the lab portion was pointless because it turns out that our professor had never done the labs. he made us to the ap biology labs. i taught that class for four years. i have done all the labs at least 12 times each. i ended up teaching the lab part of the class. i learned nothing.

when the student knows more than the teacher, as was the case in the labs for that class (which was the whole class), then there is a MAJOR problem.

all the other classes that i have taken in the program have had about 50% of the course consist of a lab component taught by an area high school teacher.

in the physics class, the lab instructor made us do the CPO physics labs. i taught out of the CPO book for years. i was doing the labs in my OWN 9th grade classroom a few weeks before we did them at night in my graduate level courses. (what a joke--- graduate level, ha. )

the chemistry lab instructor did chemistry labs that were high school level.

tonight the professor of geology talked for ten minutes.

about the scientific method.

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD???????????????????????

huh?

that is SOOOOOO fifth grade.

i don't think he said anything about rocks.

i want to know about rocks!!!!!!!!!!

so the high school teacher tonight made us cut up a boiled egg and find out how, "dang. this egg is like the earth! it has a yolk and that's like the core! and the shell is like the crust!"

and the boiled egg stunk up the room.

if you could eat a fart, then that is exactly what it would taste like.

tonight we were suposed to discuss and take what we learned and apply it to our own classroom.....

but here's the problem, i don't teach geology.
i never have, and never will.

so why would i need to apply plate tectonics to my honors biology class?

i mean, duh.

i was telling this to my sweet eddie.

he said, "well you're just hot sh#t."

i guess i am.

i'm not going to deny that.... i think he's right. there comes a time when you just have to own up to what you are.

i just need to own it.

and i am hot sh#t.

yes, that must be it.

this degree will serve me no purpose.

none.

not only will i not gain anymore than about 1200 dollars a year with a masters degree, but i will have learned absolutely nothing in the process.

talk about worthless.

did i mention that this masters degree is worthless?

i should go do something fun, like drive the forklift at home depot.