Things that will frustrate me to no end.

It's come to the end of my second week of university and I can't say it's too bad so far but there a few things that could be changed minimally that would make it so much easier for the student to learn.

For example the suggested pre-readings instead of stating "Do pre-readings before Tutorials" could be much easier and time efficient if they instead suggested a textbook, or chapter within a text, instead of suggesting the unit uses 7 suggested textbooks but no prescribed text. ((The difference is a prescribed text is one that the exam will be based on and the unit centered around, a suggested text means there are only a handful of chapters used in all.))

Another way in which I believe it could be improved is through the teachers use of time. Instead of spending an hour and ten minutes going over what we learned last week we could perhaps go over the homework for 10 minutes, then move onto this weeks work for the next 1hour 30minutes as 40minutes spent on the currents week work is no where near enough.

Furthermore there is the issue of groups. Whilst this may have been highly useful in primary school, because the smart kid did all the work, in University it is difficult to organise a sufficient amount of time each week to the the group homework that doesn't even contribute to our grade. I am also of the opinion that a group of Five people is much too large when the homework assignment is one question.

Finally would it kill the teacher to realise we haven't just come out of 20+ years in gastrointestinal studies we don't know what the hell you are saying/writing when you use abbreviations that will only be found in that one hospital. I swear nothing is more frustrating then not being able to read what the teacher has written on the whiteboard or when you ask and they think telling you the abbreviation is useful. -Sigh- Sometimes it is frustrating when they think it's useful to just write "Aldast Mechanism" when you can't understand what you just told them their weekly group homework is.

I wish Google could tell me what "Stress response. Rennin - Angiotensin Aldast Mechanism" was :/