Now I know how teachers feel.

[Xenorosth]

Been a while since I've posted, so just giving a small update, and a tiny, tiny rant. I am a computer science major, so it might get a bit techy with the humor.

I've been a tutor for university for a long time (this is my 4th year) and even longer if I include high school, and over my time I have been asked some seriously stupid questions. For example, I had to spend the entirety of how to make a solid colored L using two rectangles in java (I already gave the code on how to make a solid rectangle). There are some students you just can't save. Some of them are just comical, yet understandable, (what happens if I use "old Scanner" instead of new?) But I got stepped up for being a TA for the class Master's Class Information and Privacy Security. This is a master's level class, so I expected higher quality questions, and there were no stupid questions.

However.... I also am currently grading finals. I looked over the test and WOW. This test was way easy. 3 questions per page, 7 pages, so 21 questions total. And the majority of them were answerable in 1 sentence. Here is a literal example of one of the questions that appeared on the test.

1. Give an example of two-factor authentication.

I'll explain the answer quickly. A single factor authentication system typically only uses one thing to authenticate a user. (Two if you count username, but that's atypical) We have one on this website. Just a password. One factor However, if you secure your gmail with your phone or play guild wars, you might have used your phone to authenticate yourself as well, even after using a password. So my professor said if they list two forms of authentication, it makes it valid. Here are a list of valid answers to this question.

1. Token and Password
2. Phone and Password
3. Biometric and Password
4. Image recognition and Password

Or you can put them in a single full sentence.

But holy crap, while some answers were still right, I had to search the entirety of their ESSAY response to the question. The question was give an example, not a definition, not a history of it, or where it's used. A legit answer from this exam was a full explanation of the google 2 factor authentication, why he knew it, how he told his brother to use it, and the benefits of it. Answer is still right, but this was supposed to be a one sentence answer (it was only worth 5 points!). The worst answer was a full diagram, and a paragraph explaining the diagram, and it STILL being wrong.

This was a common trend. It was so crazy what the wrote as answers that after we finished the first page, my professor couldn't handle reading the bullshit anymore. I now know, how they feel when we give them the utmost bullshit, because I've had to grade it myself.

Anyway, sucks being a masters student, and dear god, they want to fund me for a Ph.D. Why me? They're already having me take a Doctoral Research Topics as a masters student. (COMP 895 if you you want to know the number) Wish I had time. Maybe I'd improve if I did.