Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game

My contracts professor seems like a very nice woman. She's brilliant (not everyone gets to clerk for a Supreme Court Chief Justice), very passionate about the subject, very approachable, and is a role model for many women who want to balance having a family and being top in her field. The problem is, she just can't teach us 1L's contracts.

So I don't hate my professor, I just strongly dislike the class. I tried liking it, I really did, but here's an average day in our class.

Professor: Everyone! What is *insert complex, convulated question that has very little to do with the case at hand* Everyone!
Everyone: *blank stares*
Professor: Anyone?

We're not dumb, we can answer the questions in every other class. But in contracts, we come out of class far more confused than when we came in. People have tried making suggestions of how we could understand things better, but she still doesn't seem to get it. So as much as we all have tried, most of us have just tuned most of the talking out because it makes more sense that way.

It's also fun watching what everyone in class does instead. So far I have seen and indulged in a few of the following: online shopping, checking fantasy football scores, facebooking, checking/responding to email, 4 guys in one party poker room, sleeping, scouring Craigslist, reading the news, hitting one's head against one's book, and of course instant messaging (which is the one area that I vow not to go into).

At this point, there's nothing more I can really do besides vent here. 9 more weeks. I'm just making a promise to myself that I won't go into teaching, or any field for that fact, where people who I have to interact with don't think I'm doing a good job.