The big scuttle on the ship today is the global studies midterm. He is offering an additional test that won’t replace the first one, but will act as another grade to try to help the people that bombed the first one. People were in an uproar. If the man would just make a powerpoint that we could study from instead of getting up there and rambling on for an hour and a half things would be much better, but because someone advised him that powerpoints wouldn’t work so he won’t do it. The whole thing is just being so blown out of proportion. He said he wants to uphold the high academic standards of his home university, but I’m sorry IU is not exactly an academic hotbed. (sorry Alex, but WKU really isn’t either). A girl got up and asked him for the people that came to class, studied and did the reading what they needed to do in order to do better on the final. He basically looked at her and said I don’t know what the hell to tell you. Well that’s helpful. Plus, he kind of took a shot at all the other professors saying that they dumb down their classes because we are on Semester At Sea…nice.
Eventually, he just stopped letting people talk and turned on a documentary about Pete Peterson, a Vietnam POW turned Vietnam ambassador. I found it interesting.
Nothing else exciting happened except I took 2 tests. I think I did alright on both. We also finished our SWOT analysis of the World Cup in South Africa presentation.
We had a lifeboat/muster station drill this evening. That was annoying as usual. I had dinner and went to an explorer seminar about leadership in movies. That was kind of neat. I finished the night by playing 2 games of pish posh.