Tyranny at its finest.

My Freshman Seminar class has me writing more than my English Composition class.

I’m quite bitter about that.  Everyone else that takes the newly-named “Foundations” class has it much easier than this.  My professor must think her class should be the only thought on our minds.  To prove my point, here’s a little math for you kiddies out there.  Excuse me if I’m a bit off.

My English Composition class follows a simple syllabus: four essays and a research report.  Each essay is a minimum three page assignment, and the report is a minimum five to seven page assignment.  With some easy arithmetic, that comes out to be roughly 17-19 pages of work by the end of the semester.  Great, fine, that’s to be expected of an English Composition class.  Correct me if I’m mistaken, but the course name explicitly translates to something along the lines of “a class in which you write papers”.

Now, under my “Foundations” teacher’s grading scale, she asks for a full page per question on each homework assignment.  It’s week 10.  We’ve received just about three questions a week since week 2.  She wants what would qualify as an English Composition essay per week.  That goes along with three projects, a portfolio project requiring a minimum eight full pages, an interview project for another three pages, and an evaluative art paper for another two pages.  So (9 weeks of 3 question pages each) + (8 page portfolio) + (3 page interview) + (2 page art evaluative) = 40 full pages.

Wait, 40 full pages you say?  Prove to me this isn’t unjust.  It’s not even the end of semester and already we’ve been expected to write more than double the requirements of my English Composition class.  How is this fair?  It’s called “Foundations” for a reason.

Tyranny at its finest.