Info Hell is BULLSHIT

I don’t know if I’m putting myself at some risk w/my school just for posting this, but I REALLY need to vent.

Seriously, not only do they over-hype the process itself, they even over-hype the process of turning the damned things in.

Naturally, my name was called LAST b/c my last name is Yeo, so I had to sit there for what felt like hours and hours as each person was called, applauded and cheered, tossed their “papers” into their GTF’s CARRY-ON LUGGAGE CASES, then SIGNED a stupid BANNER they put up on the blackboard and received a BUTTON that says, “I SURVIVED INFO HELL” on it.

What makes this all the more bullshit is that, after we turn in these things, we have to wait like ten days until we get our grades. Last time, I got my name called, got applauded and cheered, turned in my paper, got my button, signed the fucking banner and, ten days later, found out I had failed the course. I wasn’t able to find out why for the next three months. So, how pissed was I to have to go through it again this Wednesday, esp knowing that the button guaranteed me nothing but admission to one student’s Info Hell party tomorrow? I was SUCH a grouch all day.

As if all this isn’t enough to piss me off: One kid comes in to class seven minutes late. When his GTF starts calling out names from her list, she announces, “A couple of you came in after the doors were closed. Your papers are considered late. You know who you are and you’ll have to come talk to me at the end of class.”

So, he had to sit through the entire “ceremony” just to find out they were not going to accept his paper. Cuz the policy is, no. late. papers. Which is why I wasn’t able to submit my outline when it was found missing, because No. Late. Papers. So, the poor kid, who was taking this class for the third time, got an F because he came in a few minutes late. Quite nice of you, GTF, you could’ve just told him to leave, instead of telling him to wait out the whole fucking “ceremony” and watch everybody else turn their papers in just before he gets to hear he doesn’t get to turn his in.

In the meantime, some smart-asses have actually admitted to having goofed off all term until the very last week before the paper was due. They’ll probably pass the class. One girl I knew who had taken the class had waited until a few days before the deadline to even start her annotations. She passed w/a C. Another former student admitted that he had left out an annotation and that some of his pages were blank. He got a B. Don’t ask me who these people are. I am lousy with remembering names and faces.

I really wish some legal action could be taken to have this class banned SOON and to have some of the most affected students be compensated somehow, like those whose graduation dates were postponed by YEARS because of this one TWO HUNDRED-LEVEL CLASS, those who had to take this course NINE TIMES and were NEVER given a break, those who DID the damned work as hard as anyone could, if not harder, but got NOTHING to show for it but a dramatically lowered GPA, a warning from financial aid and a button that tauntingly says, “Info Hellion” and, of course, a LOT of blaming and accusation of laziness from their family and relatives.

Seriously, all we publicly hear about is how this class helped someone land a job or advance in their careers. I refuse to believe that I’m the only person, out of the entire history of Info Hell, to have suffered this much trauma. This thing RUINED the past two years of my life.

What if I found more ppl and compiled all the stories together (which I’m too lazy and chicken to do)??? Would it guarantee me ANY results? GIVE ME BACK THE LAST TWO YEARS OF MY LIFE.

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