I couldn't go to Fundamentals of Media Messages two Wednesdays ago due to car troubles, so I emailed my professor and asked if there was anything I needed to make up for next class. She said we started a project on press releases, and she would send me an assignment prompt soon.
The weekend passed, and I didn't receive a prompt. In addition, she had cancelled all of her classes for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (turns out she had a bacterial respiratory infection, but I didn't find out until today
oh and she knew she had it before she took her days off but still came to class with the infection because that's the totally responsible thing to do amirite???). She had all of her classes as usual on Thursday and Friday. I still didn't receive an assignment prompt.
I got to class today and asked about the prompt. Turns out we didn't actually go over writing press releases two weeks ago, but instead, we had to do research on a company in a career field we were interested in. So I'm basically two weeks behind of everyone else on research because my professor didn't feel like telling me this beforehand.
In addition, she unloaded this huge PR project on us. We have to create a press release, a brochure, a radio ad (script it and produce it) and a TV ad (storyboard it and produce it). It has to be done before finals, even though there's only 2-3 weeks of the semester left.
Also, she explained our final exam to us. Well, it's not really an exam. We literally have to pick an assignment prompt out of a hat the day of the final and work on it for the entire finals period (which is about an hour long). Yes, we get a final exam that we literally can't prepare for because we only get to find out what it is the day the final is assigned.
And all of this means we won't have any exams on the textbook, which screws over the people in the class that actually spent $80 on the textbook.
I give up. I'd rather shove rusty nails into my vagina than waste anymore time on this class.