So scared

[VampyrSlayer]

So I took an A&p1 class this summer at a local community college and am feeling totally unprepared for #2 at a different college. My teacher was 85 years old and couldn't remember anything! I'm not talking about class material but in general. She asked me 17 times in two hours when I was doing my presentation (it was Tuesday and I was going on Thursday), and what it was going to be about. She doesn't seem to keep an active grade book and it seems like she is just going to be pulling our grades out of her butt based on if she liked us or not. She liked me so I'm not worried, but we're behind and I feel like we didn't learn much. I'm concerned about how I'll fair next semester where it will be actual work. I'm planning on getting the textbook early and studying before class starts, but I'm scared that I'm not truly prepared to move on. She decided this was her last semester teaching (not because she think she can't do it, but because she got in a fight with another teacher). I'd love any advice!

Thank you!

[VampyrSlayer, CNA]

I have and got all A's, but they weren't sciences with labs so I'm concerned lol

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

I'm sorry, but I just can't get the visual out of my head -- 85 yo, semi-senile instructor And you can't blame tenure for this, because CCs don't have tenure. Nice to know that if Soc Security goes bust, I will have options other than WalMart greeter.

But seriously, this makes me sooooo mad. Surely that school could come up with a more qualified instructor for such a challenging course... GRRR Such a disservice to the students.

[VampyrSlayer, CNA]

It really is. This is the first time I took classes at this school because the cc in my town didn't offer these ones during the summer and it was 2 towns away. I took this with Sociology which I thought id hate because I don't like psych, but the teacher was fabulous (she's a full time professor at a University and only teaches a class or two at the cc). The school has gotten ridiculous and raised its rates for next semester where they are almost equal to a well-known and respected state of the art technical college an hour away. This cc only had 2 computers and they were in the "library" which was about the size of my bed room and I swear had less than a hundred books. This cc has struggled maintaining accreditation and if it didn't have it I wouldn't have taken courses there. But now I'm going back to the cc in my town which is also close to state of the art and never looking back. Yikes!

Oh and trust me, your visual is right on. Although she is extremely sweet and in her time I bet she was a kickbutt instructor (because she knows her stuff) its just hard for her to remember if she taught us that or not.