Geography Come Another Day

By J.P.Clyde · Aug 30, 2011 · 566 · 5
  1. I am literally going to kill whomever thought Geography was a course everyone should take to get their associates. I really do not like my Geography class.

    Power Point presentations that are geared towards more audio and visual picture learners, do not help me. All though I am a visual learner, I am a visual textual learner. Meaning I need to read text and then a graph or a picture can help me visualize what I read.

    When you just show me a picture of a Strike slip fault, I'm like looking at a whole new foreign language. I do have a recorder to record the audio of the class, since the teacher talks way to fast for me.

    But I also feel that Geography is as specialized as trigonometry or calculus. The tools are useful if you were to one day become a Geographer. Longitude and Latitude. It feels like my Earth Science class had a baby with a world Atlas and they called it Geography.

    People do not talk to each other like this:

    Bob, "Hey come to my house on Friday?"

    Pat, "Where do you live?"

    Bob, "50degress N 69 degrees W"

    No. They talk in streets and relations to roads. People don't use degree, west, north, east, south, etc. It's all instinctual, at least for me. So I find it all a little bit silly really. It just isn't the way people talk nor navigate any more.

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  1. Eunoia
    Don't you use textbooks as well? If not, perhaps you should get one to help you. Also, have you talked to your teacher about this?

    These things may not feel necessary to learn to you, but if someone wants a career in geography then they are going to have to know these things. People still use degrees and such to navigate, even if a lot of us don't.
    Eunoia, Aug 30, 2011
  2. mugen shiyo
    Lol. You know those things you buy that come in a box filled with Styrofoam?

    Geography = Styrofoam
    mugen shiyo, Aug 31, 2011
  3. Heather
    There is a lot more to geography that just learning about bearings and maps, and you can learn a lot of skills in geography which is useful for other subjects. Perhaps you are just learning about a topic which is boring to you, and I hope that your next topic is more stimulating, because geography really can be brilliant and so varied. Human development issues, city centre regenerations, volcanoes and earthquakes, hurricanes, sustainable energy sources - all of this comes under geography, and a lot more. Don't let a few boring lessons put you off entirely :)
    Heather, Sep 4, 2011
  4. mugen shiyo
    You forgot tetris, Heather :p
    mugen shiyo, Sep 5, 2011
  5. Heather
    Tetris? :rolleyes:
    Heather, Sep 5, 2011
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