ChinchillaGirl

I'm in my third semester of the Regulatory Affairs program. I dropped one of two classes this semester because the instructor - who teaches this class every semester - couldn't be arsed to give us a weekly syllabus of assignments. Her computer crashed, then she was sick. Weekly discussions, which are supposed to be about 200 words, were posted on Monday and had to be added by Wednesday evening. The last two weeks I was enrolled the 200 word discussion was a 2 page paper and a bizarre question that made no sense in regard to how drugs progress to clinical trials. We students all have full time jobs, so trying to plan ahead to accomplish two classes and work just was not happening when you get blindsided every Monday and the group project wouldn't be assigned until the last month of class. My first class was good - organized, clear expectations, assignments that reinforced what we learned. Everything was written assignments. The second class - I don't think anyone was forcing the guy to teach, but he was so apathetic I have to assume someone was holding a gun to his head. I learned literally nothing from him at all, and had to complain to the program director before that guy posted anything resembling a syllabus. Everything was written assignments. My current class has a group project, written assignments, discussion posts and online timed tests. The instructor is organized, but this required class topic is just mind numbingly boring to me. Every class involves some sort of group project, with the excuse of "you need to learn to work with people in different places." Great, except we all do that every day in our careers, so making our grade rely on people who may not care that much is absurd. I need a piece of paper so I can transition out of my dead end academic research career into something with more job stability, so I plan to stick it out and hope other instructors actually care about what they are doing. Many former students who are in the Baltimore area have transitioned to jobs with the FDA, so I don't feel it's a total waste.