The Three-inch Beard

I'm taking ES 201 (Advanced Mathematical Methods in Engineering) as an elective for this semester. It's a Master's Degree level subject, obviously taken only by those pursuing that degree. Well, undergraduates are allowed though. In any case, it's masters level: hard and only masochistic undergrads take it.

And that includes me! Haha. Primary reason would be the challenge of it. Yeah, geek here! And then, practicality: since whenever I'm looking ten years from now, a master's degree is in it.

And I want to have a night class. For me, UP is best appreciated by night. The beauty. Yes. It's so cool going home from class at night, the College of Engineering with its closed rooms and dim, freaky corridors, the Academic Oval with orange lamps lighting the sidewalks, and simply the overall serenity of UP by night. So serene.

Some would say that what I did was hypocritical since past posts were ranting about how ES 1, 11, 12, 21 boiled several gallons of blood down my veins. But those times were not about the subject. Those were about the prof - of how they check papers, teach, etc. No one knows that a true blue geek lies inside here - I even browse MIT OpenCourseware for sample exams!

Though this is the subject I'm most looking forward to since preenlistment, things changed after the first day. And it isn't about the subject itself. As always...

My professor is Mr. A. Cortes. He's that old man you see at the ES Department who I thought was Zarco, or Que. He sports this almost three-inch beard, a balding head, small eyes shielded by thick spectacles, an enlarged belly. At this mood, you'd surely know that I don't like him. But disappointment's more than the physical.

He has this sickening happy-go-lucky attitude and we-are-talking-about-nonsense-here aura. He told us that he gives only 1.00, 2.00, 3.00 or 5.00 as grades, boasting that he likes prime numbers for that case. Isn't this a violation? And when a foreign student asked if he could speak straight English, he scolded the guy and told him to study the basic language of where you're studying. How rude. For many years, foreign student in College in Engineering can only be found in postgraduate level and he's saying this. He insists that no complaints will be entertained for wrongly checked papers. He constantly discourages us. He also says he's dyslexic.

Poor paragraph construction above.

Maybe I was expecting too much. Caring professors can only be found in undergraduate courses. People in Masters are too old and thick to handle this type of person.

End of rant.

I'll talk about the two foreign students in that class later on.

Tired. (I've read the whole post, not good. Haha)