College Wanna-be Dropout

 Okay, let me start off with saying that I'm not planning on dropping out at all, at least whole-heartedly. Let me proceed to tell you that I despise Chemistry 116 and everything about it besides my two wonderful professors, Dr. Steele and Dr. Pelter. The material isn't even tremendously difficult, but the program we're forced to use, ALEKS, is the epitome of humanity's consequences for their sins and crimes against humanity. ALEKS is perhaps the most rancid, corrupted, nefarious online "learning" program publicly available. The system for ALEKS pretty much boils down to this; Get the answer wrong 3 times, get told your answer is wrong and get a terrible explanation why, and the program closes on itself because you're not getting any questions right and ALEKS feels like you're hopeless. If anyone from the chemistry department sees this, rethink that decision, please. ;)

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  1. dr. kyburzOctober 25, 2021 at 6:31 AM

    Ugh. Automated learning. I wish I could do something to help! Try to get through it. Also, I can think of 1000 dystopian images to use with this post. Break out and get creative (ROBOTS HATE THIS!) :)

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