Lazyness

I'm lazy, I recognize it. The fact that I'm a spaniard won't help me to be forgiven by you. But I'm a Spaniard and I believe thats something inherited because my mother and my father were spaniards, so that's not my fault.

Anyway, I was asked to continue posting. So I had to do it and also because it's only two weeks left for me in Spain.

I told you I'll speak about my exam, so I find it really interesting to tell you how it was. But as all in this country even exams are weird and speciall.

My exam was about mathematics, complex mathematics, partial differentials, third grade integrals, differential equations, and horrible stuff like that. It's something I really don't like and something I found useless, but i had to study it. I just want you to see that it isn't something easy. So I studied a lot, I was really well prepared and also I found 13 exams from other years and I made them. I hoped I'll be like them but I was wrong. After making the exam I realized in my university they make September exams more difficult than february and June's exams I guess the idea is to punish those lazy bastards who didn't pass the first, but that wasn't my case I just made it in September because I'm an organized person who believes in that mathematical sentence that says "divide and win".

The exam was the same type as wich I did at home to prepare but much more difficult. It wouldn't be that bad if the type of exam we have in this subject wasn't so stupid and horrible and unfair. We have 8 exercises, the first 7 exercises have a value of 1 poin each, and the last is 3 points so you can get a maximum of 10 and a minimun of 0, to pass the exam you need 5 points. The problem here is they only look at the solution, in fact, they can't see the whole proccess of finding it what's the real important. They only give us a paper with the questions and 8 small places to put the solution of each exercise. I believed in maths the really important thing is to learn how to solve an exercise us the sollution could be wrong because of a very, very small mistake as changing a sign on an equation. But here that's not important. So in the worst case you can be a real genius with maths and know everything about the subject and still fail the exam if you're not too meticulous to check every small detail on the proccess to get the solution. On other hand you could have no idea of neither maths nor the subject and pass the exam because you were lucky enough to solve or copy 5 problems with no mistakes.

The second thing here is realeted only to my university. My university is called UNED and I'll translate it into "National University of Distance Education" what means that I don't have any neither class or teacher to learn, so you have to learn everything by yourself. Well, we really have teachers, but on the phone. It wouldn't be a problem if they were there when you need help, but they only have one afternoon a week to be available and they're normally not there when you call. So I could say we don't have any help. They're payed the same as any other university teacher but they don't teach anybody. So I coud say they're the worst class of clerks, even for spanish standards.

Sometimes I did talk to them but with no result, it was helpless, how can you ask something about maths, or physics, or programming with them not being here to show the equations, programs, or anything. We can use email, but I believe it's even worst.

So the recipe of UNED could be:

Pick the most lazy clerks from universities, the most stupid clerks from administration, build a website, take a lot of money from the government and the pupils and mix all togheter in a building in Madrid with a telephone line that doesn't work built by the worst telephone company in Spain, but not the cheapest (Telefonica), and you have a perfect excuse to earn money and not to work.

The idea could be great, it could be perfect for those guys who don't like to go to classrooms or who don't have the time to go because they have a job. But the problem is this is Spain and nothing works here. As everybody's idea of a perfect job is to be a clerk is understandable.

Another interesting fact, we have some test type exams in wich you have an optical page, that means you have squares to tick and they'll put the exam on a machine that will correct automaticaly the exam and give the right mark. So you can think it's very easy to correct all those exams (sometimes they can be thousands) and fast. You think it won't take more than days and only with the effort of being there to feed more paper to the machine. Bullshit, that's too much work for them, and they can't be there to feed the machine because they have more important things to do, as having a coffe or being drunk in the morning. So an exam that could be corrected in a week takes two months and a half.

Now I'm waiting for my exam's correction. I need it to be fast 'cause as you know I'm leaving. I tried to call the teachers (I have two for the same subject) but, of course, they weren't there. I send them a useless email on the hope they'll see it next monday, and I can only wait, but I have no time really.

Hope everything will be ok. But I can't avoid to be angry with my hhkjgsyfg university, it's 4 years since I started studying in UNED and it's long enough.