I'm dismayed to find myself 5 classes in to the MBA program at the University of Phoenix online. The first few classes were not bad, but as time has gone on, the quality of instruction has fallen to levels probably more appropriate for the 8th grade. My current instructor seems more concerned with verifying that her students can follow written instructions (poorly written ones at that) than teaching the subject at hand. My classmates routinely share their fundamentalist religious views, sometimes spout hate, occasionally preach racism, and generally act like an ignorant bunch of asses.
My grades are based largely on learning team assignments and participation. Sounds reasonable, until you consider that if you are placed into a learning team with morons, you are stuck with spending an exorbitant amount of time doing the work yourself, potentially having to argue your point with people who wouldn't know an intelligent thought if it whacked them upside the head, or going along with the happy little group of idiots and getting a crappy grade for your efforts. Nice choices.
I thought that this was a way to get my MBA in a convenient format. I did not expect that all was required was $24K and the ability to bite my tongue and kill time for 2 years. What a waste.
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