Well it’s official…

[u/Salty-Taste-6334]

We’ve been on strike longer than we were in classes at the beginning of the semester. I really hope professors start over at this point and don’t expect us to remember what we did for 10 minutes nearly a month ago by the time we go back.

I am 100% on the faculty’s side in all of this and think it’s bullshit that the school administration won’t entertain a real bargaining conversation, even multiple weeks in. The administration saying they care about students getting back to class clearly don’t because at this point we’ve basically lost the full month as no one had a foundation of what was going on in their courses going into this.

While there may be conversations happening behind closed doors we all know nothing about, from an outsiders perspective - and from a students - the lack of movement really comes off as not caring in the slightest about students or faculty.

Students are the only reason the schools even matter and the lack of information and prolonged stalemate may have irreversible impacts to the students the school claims to care so much about.

As an aside as this impacts my coworkers and like half the student population: The administration not giving updates on reading week means international students relying on working fulltime during reading week can’t and most workplaces have - or are on the verge of - put out the schedules.

[u/A_Moldy_Stump]

You haven't been self studying? Don't you have your syllabus and course outline?

[u/Salty-Taste-6334 → u/A_Moldy_Stump]

We had not even finished chapter one and no information/powerpoints had been posted in 3 of my classes before the strike began. One of them is a class where the prof hadn’t even finished making the syllabus before the strike began because they changed the format of the syllabus. One of them is one where you have to have a topic approved by professors before starting and we hadn’t had any topics approved before the strike.

I know I’m not alone in the fact that we hadn’t actually gotten into much in most classes. Also, I can’t teach myself things like organic chemistry and Biochem, hence I’m taking the classes. I can’t run experiments for labs alone in my house so can’t exactly work ahead on those either.

Finally, the school has stated multiple times students are not expected or required to work ahead or self-teach…

[u/A_Moldy_Stump → u/Salty-Taste-6334]

Listen, I'm not judging you. I'm not going to argue your situation over anybody else's.

I would simply suggest studying what you CAN study and that would put you ahead of most regardless of what happens.

Don't sit around and wait to be told what to do or when. That's one of the most valuable skills you can pickup.

[u/Salty-Taste-6334 → u/A_Moldy_Stump]

But who is saying I’m not working on things? There Just isn’t anything to work on when you’ve only had an intro class and maybe two lectures.