COP: College of Propaganda

I'll give you the good news first: the COP hears the cries for help from you, "The Unwashed Masses" (a term Dr. Richter no doubt used in the privacy of his evil lair). And the bad news: they'd rather propagandize you into not talking about your negative experiences than actually fix said negative experience. Surely I'm not the only one that noticed that reaching back five years to the pharmtards who sat at our desks before us yielded complaints about the same bullshit that no doubt gets doled out like government cheese on an annual basis. This is precisely the reason that, in these situations, I don't even bother filling out evaluations for shitty professors who insist on being shitty professors -- I'm all about efficiency! I'm streamlining the process; the less time I waste telling them about things they won't fix, the less time they have to spend throwing away my suggestions -- it's a win/win.


Some of you may not have got the reference from the opening line about the COP taking note of our disgruntledness. Well, beyond my blog audience creeping into the ranks of faculty (including those I have created new orifices for on a weekly basis -- I refuse to repent), there's also other happenings that let me know that there is increasing awareness of our disgruntlement. At the beginning of this semester there was now-infamous term "Undercurrent of Insurrection," that indicated that there was at least some awareness of our mass dissatisfaction. Several other things occurred along the way, but today the awareness culminated in direct and repeated orders from Academic Affairs that the PY2/3 team leaders were to BE POSITIVE. This was repeated several times, stamped on all the forms the team leader's had, etc, etc. The only thing they didn't do was put shock collar around their necks and jolt them everytime they started to talk about kinetics -- it was an exercise in propaganda Goebbels himself would shed a tear at (okay, maybe that's hyperbole).

But this entire theme of putting a flower on top of shit sandwich is a type a pervasive COP philosophy based in the fact that it's easier to shut us up than it is to correct multiple massive defects in this "cream of the crop" academic program. This is primarily rooted in the fact that correcting a problem would require someone high up in the chain of command to have an good, original thought. Actually, I'm halfway out of Hell already -- I mainly just want them to not have shitty original thoughts. More or less: let's just maintain current levels of surplus suck long enough for me to get my degree, and then you can make it suck more when I'm gone. But nay, if we're going to suck at something, we're going to do it right, dammit! It's all part of a cruel game the COP clearly excels at.


Above: an even cruel-er game
That's exactly why they started with just tacking rotations onto the first and second year willy-nilly, functionally raising tuition -- but notice the tuition numbers they tell prospective students don't include these anyway. And we can't stop there either. They decided for no fucking apparent reason to lengthen fourth year rotations and decrease the number -- decreasing the diversity of your experience while simultaneously increasing the monotony. It's a grand-slam for whoever insists on baseless changes to cheapen our not-cheap academic experience! Go ahead and ask a graduating pharmtard how this will affect your experience -- I did. Here's the summary I got:

"The way rotations work right now is that you spend two weeks not knowing what you're doing, one week dominating it, and the final week being fucking bored...So go ahead and add two weeks of being fucking bored for you guys."

I can't possibly be more blunt about this: mark it down right now that I called it one year in advance -- the new CRAPPE system will be a clusterfuck that will do nothing but cheapen the diversity of your experience and increase the monotony three fold. I'd wager money on this, but after I pay for my rotation tonight I'm going to be too broke to gamble.

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