I have a lack of tolerance for this breed of stupidity in a human being, and to put it extreeeemly mildly your prof needs to get a grip. I mean, what the hell is all this?! He can't seriously mean to keep up the "positive criticism only" thing for the the whole time, right? Maybe the positive criticism will only last briefly to build up students' confidence before he then starts to allow more constuctive criticism. Because if there's no constructive criticism AT ALL and only positive sugarcoated fluff, then there's no way anyone's gonna learn a goddamn thing about writing because nobody's telling them where they're going wrong. They can get all the happy, fluffy, cooing, confidence-building comments they like but people, it's not going to make them any better a writer. They won't make any progress and even it they're happy as a clam for the rest of the semester, it still won't change the fact that they haven't learnt jackshit. Jesus, it's like Fanfiction.net in a classroom! It's insane!
Seiber, is this prof the only guy who teaches creative writing? Would it be possible to swap your current class for a different one with a better prof? If not, go to the Chair of Literature and Language and explain your side of the story. Hell, do that anyway. Because if they don't hear your side of the story they're gonna be judging you on the prof's description alone, and we can all see how neutral HIS view is. Even if you have to suck it up for now and only deliver the positive crit, as instructed, go back and see if the Chair is more open to talking after the dust has had a chance to settle. I can't get over how fucking unfair this is, and I really think it's bull if the Chair gets the wrong impression simply because they're not willing to listen to your side of the story. My computer science teacher at high school taught us all something unrelated to the course that's managed to stick with me ever since he said it: "You don't get a second chance to make a first impression." It's unfair that this asshole prof of yours has perhaps managed to paint an unrealistic portrait of you as a troublemaker to everyone else, and the earlier you can change any false perceptions the better. You don't want this to be dragging you down in the future, because it would be downright unfair.
Also, you might wanna think about friends-locking this entry. Because the last thing you need right now is someone finding out about your Livejournal and using it as another reason to chalk up a point against you. I know people who've lost their jobs because someone at their workplace found their weblog and forwarded it to the boss, even though the entry that their boss was firing them for was just a simple rant made ages ago about their workplace -- something they don't probably mean any more, but which they did ages ago when they actually typed it out.
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I have a lack of tolerance for this breed of stupidity in a human being, and to put it extreeeemly mildly your prof needs to get a grip. I mean, what the hell is all this?! He can't seriously mean to keep up the "positive criticism only" thing for the the whole time, right? Maybe the positive criticism will only last briefly to build up students' confidence before he then starts to allow more constuctive criticism. Because if there's no constructive criticism AT ALL and only positive sugarcoated fluff, then there's no way anyone's gonna learn a goddamn thing about writing because nobody's telling them where they're going wrong. They can get all the happy, fluffy, cooing, confidence-building comments they like but people, it's not going to make them any better a writer. They won't make any progress and even it they're happy as a clam for the rest of the semester, it still won't change the fact that they haven't learnt jackshit. Jesus, it's like Fanfiction.net in a classroom! It's insane!
Seiber, is this prof the only guy who teaches creative writing? Would it be possible to swap your current class for a different one with a better prof? If not, go to the Chair of Literature and Language and explain your side of the story. Hell, do that anyway. Because if they don't hear your side of the story they're gonna be judging you on the prof's description alone, and we can all see how neutral HIS view is. Even if you have to suck it up for now and only deliver the positive crit, as instructed, go back and see if the Chair is more open to talking after the dust has had a chance to settle. I can't get over how fucking unfair this is, and I really think it's bull if the Chair gets the wrong impression simply because they're not willing to listen to your side of the story. My computer science teacher at high school taught us all something unrelated to the course that's managed to stick with me ever since he said it: "You don't get a second chance to make a first impression." It's unfair that this asshole prof of yours has perhaps managed to paint an unrealistic portrait of you as a troublemaker to everyone else, and the earlier you can change any false perceptions the better. You don't want this to be dragging you down in the future, because it would be downright unfair.
Also, you might wanna think about friends-locking this entry. Because the last thing you need right now is someone finding out about your Livejournal and using it as another reason to chalk up a point against you. I know people who've lost their jobs because someone at their workplace found their weblog and forwarded it to the boss, even though the entry that their boss was firing them for was just a simple rant made ages ago about their workplace -- something they don't probably mean any more, but which they did ages ago when they actually typed it out.