I had a lecture today. Being a student, that's not particularly surprising. But it was a lecture on internet research. Again, with a dissertation to do next year that's hardly surprising either. But what is absolutely shocking though is the lecture, that was supposed to be an hour long, lasted a mere half an hour and the lecturer only talked about how to search on Google.
Now, I'm 24. I've had the internet my whole life, I do remember it in it's infancy but again, I've been using it the whole time I've been in education. Thats a long time. And I know how to use Google. I could have understood if the lecture was on useful ways to narrow searches in databases such as online journals or bibliography databases. But no. This lecture really was on how to use Google.
There's not much else to say on it really. I got up at 9am for a lecture and was back in my room slightly stunned at what juat happened a mere 35 minutes later! I've ranted to everyone around me at my astonishment and now I'm telling you. I'm paying about £7,000 a year and getting myself into an unimaginable amount of debt to be taught about how to search on Google. It's not even the best way to search! I'd fail if I cited it in an essay so what was the point? Your guess is as good as mine.
I might write a stronly worded letter. Then again, being a student. Neighbours is on soon, so I probably won't.
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I know how u feel, i was in that lecture, infact i was sat next to you...it was shattest thing ever, and that guy looks like a tool haha, what a knobber that mornin was.
Keep up the bloggin, its a good un.
m.P
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