College was breezing along just fine. First came Economics, which was terrible enough, but we made it through unscathed (at least, most of us). Then came another major hurdle- Marketing. Most of us, again, got mud raked at us, and were told to understand why. Again, most survived.
Then came Accounting. Which was okay, because we learned most of it already in our previous year (our previous accounting lecturer had to be one of the most eccentric ever).
Along came Business Law. Wow.
I've read a law text book before, and it was just...barely comprehensible. I got a few stuff, but got lost with all those references to Sections and Acts.
Okay, Introduction to Business Law couldn't be that hard (at least, compared to that text book I read) could it?
How wrong I was. We were assaulted with wonderfully (complex) constructed sentences and esoteric words that we had to ask someone to bring a dictionary.
We have decided to put the blame on the compiler of our textbook, a certain Ms. Lee.
In her haste to not make her work look like a cut and paste job, she decided to rehash the wording to make it more original. Of course, all it did was to confuse us (and our lecturer) even more.
Someone noted it was reminiscent of an Aron Tan job (referring to a student who copied and pasted his assignments and just changed the wording to make it look un-plagiarized).
But I think we must make some concessions for our dear Ms. Lee. Perhaps she was working under pressure, or perhaps law is just that way- extremely, frustratingly, complicated.
And as for Jared, who's interested in law...
Good luck!
Then came Accounting. Which was okay, because we learned most of it already in our previous year (our previous accounting lecturer had to be one of the most eccentric ever).
Along came Business Law. Wow.
I've read a law text book before, and it was just...barely comprehensible. I got a few stuff, but got lost with all those references to Sections and Acts.
Okay, Introduction to Business Law couldn't be that hard (at least, compared to that text book I read) could it?
How wrong I was. We were assaulted with wonderfully (complex) constructed sentences and esoteric words that we had to ask someone to bring a dictionary.
We have decided to put the blame on the compiler of our textbook, a certain Ms. Lee.
In her haste to not make her work look like a cut and paste job, she decided to rehash the wording to make it more original. Of course, all it did was to confuse us (and our lecturer) even more.
Someone noted it was reminiscent of an Aron Tan job (referring to a student who copied and pasted his assignments and just changed the wording to make it look un-plagiarized).
But I think we must make some concessions for our dear Ms. Lee. Perhaps she was working under pressure, or perhaps law is just that way- extremely, frustratingly, complicated.
And as for Jared, who's interested in law...
Good luck!
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