#424 - Babblings

1. First and foremost;
Here are a few key traits that indicate teachers shouldn't be teachers: impatient, prickly, not willing to offer help and going off at almost everyone since someone complained about her teaching skills. Clearly, she's not teaching for altruistic purposes - wrong profession, dude. A plethora of degrees including a PhD and ___ years of 'professional teaching experience' does not guarantee that one will be a good teacher, okay? You could be extremely knowledgeable but still not able to deliver the content in an effective and engaging manner. Moreover, being defensive and downright cocky of one's teaching ability instead of giving feedback to students and telling them how to improve and where they went wrong is not the right way of doing things. No one was questioning her judgment anyway.

2.
Job. I'm not sure what's going on.

3. [I'll be going off on a tangent here with a rant about sexism.]
This
is sick, disturbing, sexist and uncalled for.
I'm hating the fact that the empowerment of women is so difficult to achieve because of people like him (ie. scum). As someone commented, his attitude is extremely harmful to women and his comments may serve as further justification for violence and assault against women.
A laughable thing I read yesterday written by a girl (ironically) was that sexism could be ignored since it was, and here I quote, "it's no doubt an insecurity" that women had. I'm just going like....what?! Of course it's not an insecurity - it's something that is fundamentally unjust and has detrimental ramifications on the people who are subjected to this (males included!). When sexism is ignored, this only legitimizes the vicious continuation of this unacceptable behaviour. If sexism was really such a minor issue that could be easily overlooked and joked about, there wouldn't be a need for various anti-discrimination laws which Australia currently has in place, right?
I'm all for being free of sexism - it's certainly not something that should be tolerated by anyone regardless of gender. That goes for discrimination in general as well.
As you may have gathered by now, I'm pretty vocal about things such as sexism, feminism, equality (you get my drift) when I blog and I have so much to say. However, when it comes to tutorials where everyone can freely discuss their views on certain issues, I'm deathly quiet. There's a lot of things I know but somehow I can never muster the courage to speak my mind freely in front of a lot of people... I guess I communicate my thoughts better by writing rather than speaking.  

4.
Though I really shouldn't be dwelling on unexpected setbacks and mishaps (get over it, girlllllll), some good news came around. I finally managed to perfect a law assessment the first time - no need for resubmission. HELL YESSS (: I finally did something right! I'm ecstatic because I am always completely mind-boggled when I do them and often eclipsed by self-doubt, questioning my intelligence. Though the memo is a relatively insignificant thing, it cheered me up immensely after I was down in the dumps for a day or two over a certain event. I'm going to miss this 'training wheels' unit when I move on to 'normal wheels' next semester. Got my first proper uni essay back today and I'm relatively happy - I could have done better, but at least now I know where to improve! (:

5. Last but not least;
A positive mindset. Yep, I'm trying to be more optimistic and upbeat no matter what happens. Too often I'm engulfed and caught up in indefinite and unnecessary negative statements such as "maybe", "can't", "won't", "unable" that I forget that I can achieve this or do that. Self-doubt is something that I'm often guilty of, and I'm sure everyone is the same. However, don't let it get to you since it seriously undermines the potential that lies within you. You have to believe in yourself first.

PS. Though point 5 probably is something that everyone needs - I especially address this to a certain someone who needs to be a lot more positive about their ability to achieve things and balancing study, work and social life - you can do it.