Confused, Mad... Whatever!

I am supposedly going to have a class today, but I don't feel it in me to go cram to school when it's only us, the masterands, who are evidently wanting to come to school. Our instructor apparently has priorities that seldom include us although we are enrolled officially in her class. 

It feels funny at times to be asking whether we were going to have a class ... to go to school and wait only to find out we weren't going to meet. Tasks and requirements pile up one after the other and some of the requirements we know nothing about.  

Like this electronic portfolio.  We were told to start preparing for such.  I didn't have any idea, I admit and so I researched on it. There are many ways on which to keep an electronic portfolio.  Those who can afford can even keep a website.  The internet resource stated that a blog that is regularly maintained is also considered one.  And since it is one I am very much familiar and comfortable with, I opted to have it.  But to my dismay, I was told it wasn't what she wanted.  I'm keeping my blog nonetheless ---  if only to record incidents of how I had been too damn frustrated over this situation where we have already formally ended the summer sessions on my other subjects and on this subject, Education 509, I don't know if we ever even began!  It's confusing and infuriating at the same time.

I have two Power Point presentations which ironically aren't presented ... and one which members of the group to which I belong made  by themselves.  In other words, three presentations are pending. We were required to make synthesis of each reports, but how on earth can we do it  when we haven't met???

As of writing this, I was informed through text that we are to extend 5-8 classes in the next weeks. Hands on sessions and all those crappy things.  Where was this plan when the summer session was still ongoing? There wouldn't have been any need to extend if classes were done regularly.  We were always present anyway. It's just infuriating to note that the irresponsibility of one could affect the time schedule of many.  I am very much affected because I have this method of organizing my time in such a way that things don't overlap with each other.  A method I employ so I can submit reports and requirements on time and I have hated the uncertainty and the wasted hours spent waiting for and looking forward to reports that don't materialize.  I hate the fact that the schedule I have made for myself --- one I have formulated in consonance with the schedule given, by the Graduate School, is unnecessarily disrupted.  I hate to think that while I look forward to the next few weeks as those times when I will start preparing lesson plans, write formative and summative tests for the next school year, it will have to be destroyed again... yet again...