COGS 107A is a CIA Experimental Torture Method Designed to Make me Snap
Not holding a student's hand is perfectly fine with me, I'm an adult, I'm in college and yeah I get that. But Jesus Christ on the in-class quizzes when you ask the most vague and remotely detached questions ever without even a hint of what you want included in the answer, and you decide to ass blast me with the most minutiae-driven most vocabulary focused (vocabulary which is subject to get a single mention or no mention at all in lecture) rubric, then welp I really have no choice but to keep penalizing myself on the self-grading process because I want to respect the sanctity of academic honesty. I don't even do these written quizzes to learn at this point, I write whatever jumbled bullshit I can gather in lecture which sees the info maybe worth a single point on the rubric repeated and repeated and repeated ad-nauseum, whilst again the concepts that need to be explained and vocabulary that NEEDS to be mentioned BY NAME to net you the most points (which again I won't even know are important for the quiz or need to be named until I get the rubric over the weekend and have to fist my own ass until I cry taking points off here and there because the questions are posed as misleadingly simple) are glazed over super-fast or just aren't mentioned by name. Every time I have to do this purely punitive self-grade process designed to test your ability to resist throwing yourself out of a window, I always ask myself why in the hell am I even trying this hard in this class writing paragraphs worth of shit to answer a question, because after all these quizzes are not about brevity and pinpoint accuracy, but casting a wide enough net to catch the most amount of points possible. I love the content in this class it is so interesting, the lecturer is also one of the most captivating and funniest I have had in a while, but holy crap these vague ass questions posed on the quizzes that are followed up with the most punishing and specific rubric ever are NOT IT. I read the textbook, I watch the pre-lecture videos, I show up to lecture, but I never feel like I have enough to answer the questions on this super punishing rubric.