@BetterJudgment said:
@Cobaltasaurus There's so much else worth reading in Plato that I'm vicariously pissed off at your idiot of an instructor for making you hate him. Please, trash this instructor in a level-headed, detailed, and specific manner on the end of semester evaluation, because if what you are describing is what's going on, that instructor is being lazy as hell. And I say that as someone who regularly gets trashed on evaluations, although for things like, "History is boring," "I hate having to take this general education class," and "This was too hard because I don't want to read and write outside of class and just want to take multiple choice tests that you tell me the answers to in advance."
I think the thing that is pissing me off, even more than doing the same thing every week -- which I hate, I crave new knowledge and experiences -- is that despite doing the same thing over and over he likes to randomly throws 17/20 or 19/20 at me when I didn't change a single thing I did! It was the same thing as last week! Why am I being marked down?
ETA: I was at one point asked to put a character from Kafka's "Metamorphosis" through the Cave Journey. I feel like my time would have been better sent if I had been asked to write 500-1000 words discussing the meaning and symbolism in the story. Rather than writing up how the sister went through an allegory of the cave (which I chose because I found her most interesting, and didn't think any of the characters went through a cave journey).