Algebra Class 

     When I started back to school I was a little worried because I had to learn how to study again.  Well so far I have taken one class on line and it was ok, but I thought I would have learned more by being in class participating with others. Now moving on to my frustration regarding the way the professor is teaching my algebra class, I never thought I would learn more by doing my homework online than in class.  My professor is so confusing.  The other day I had a question regarding a problem he was explaining and I had no idea what he was talking about, he was confusing me by going back and forth between problems.  I then ask him to please explain another problem, hoping the problem would be similar to what we were working on. So Instead of giving the class another simple problem that we could understand he gave us a problem with fractions and decimals.  I was thinking to myself, what is he doing? If I could not understand the simple problem that was given initially, what would make him think I could understand problems with fractions and decimals in them?  I was so upset because I really didn’t understand what was going on and our test was going to be the following week.  I feel like I should have a different professor or even taken the class online. It makes me so upset that I have to leave work early every week to go to class, pay all this money and then end up not learning a thing while I am there.  It is too late now to drop the class but I guess from now on I need to look a week ahead of my homework so maybe I can understand a little more in class. I know that next semester I will definitely look on the list of professors for the classes I will be taking and ask around to other students how they rate the professor for that class.  I hope to never have to go through another class feeling like I do in this one. It’s hard enough learning how to be a productive student. Maybe next semester will be better.