My last class of the semester is called Aging and Health. I don't know who this class is going to go because I've only been in it for one week. I am hoping that it will go more smoothly than the last class. I did well in it (Got an A), but it was very stressful for some reason. I think it's because there was so much important information that we skimmed over because of time constraints. Oh well.
This class is about aging successfully and the entire class revolves around the movie Up, the animated film by Pixar. Up until this class I had not seen the movie. I tried to watch it once but did not make it very far. I don't like heights so when the little house took off flying, it was a bit much for me. Still, I finally did watch it for the class and ended up really enjoying it. I wrote my paper about the movie and turned it in. It's something that I'm going to have to do every week for the rest of the class.
I hate to be this person, because I do realize how much teachers and professors have on their plates, but I did not come to graduate school to spend an entire class watching a movie. If I was getting a film degree, maybe so, but for gerontology? I just feel like there has to be a better way to study health and aging. Maybe one week we watch up and base our papers on that, but the entire class? I'm sorry. It takes me back to middle school when we would get excited when the teacher rolled in the vcr on the cart from the library for us to watch a movie. Sometimes it was as a reward for us but sometimes it was a reward for the teacher, and she could let the movie baby sit us and did not have to do anything. That's what this feels like to me. Like this class is an afterthought. I know it isn't but that is how I feel.
I hope that my feelings about the class change. Still, I will give it my best. I guess I'll be watching Up again this week. Thank goodness I have more popcorn! That is all.
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