Chagrin

When I take a class at a university that is considered a "higher leveled" course, I have certain expectations for that course. It does not need to be the most difficult course nor the most interesting...but ATLEAST a "higher level" course should be more challenging then a basic high school course! Consider this quote from the back of Geometry for College Students, the textbook for the aforementioned course (Math 435): "An important difference of this book from the majority of modern college geometry texts is that it avoids axiomatics. The students using this book have had very little experience with formal mathematics...This makes the book suitable to second or third year mathematics majors" Little experience with formal mathematics??? What do you call the 3 years of proof based mathematics that I have been studying!? Ridiculous. After class, I go up to the Professor to ask him a question about homework and he whisks me away telling me to go to his office hours (which are during another one of my class times).

This ended up being a rather unpleasant start to my morning. I would say most of the unpleasantness I would say is due to simple ennui; sitting in class going over the first 8 pages of a simple text for two weeks is painful. So mostly it was a very long feeling of boredom while I was in the class, and some slight anger every once in awhile when I realize I could be doing something better with my time. I feel like the source of my upsetness and anger was whoever structured this course. I wasn't particular upset or angry AT them since I do not know who they are. It was also more of something that built up inside of me instead of spontaneous.