Evaluation Sheetz!

Today I had to fill out yet another evaluation sheet. Obviously we must fill them out for every class here at SHU. Part of me can understand why... they are used to figure out which teachers and classes suck, and which ones kick major butt. I could have just walked in there and told them myself, but instead I have to fill out this Iowa-test-like sheet that brings me back to my days in grade school.

Sometimes I would be honest with the evaluation sheets. Mainly with the first few I got, because I didn't think they would become annoying. I love filling out survey's and rating things, its extremely fun to me... (sometimes I go to the mall and just mill around hoping to be approached by someone with a clipboard and a five dollar bill!) But after a couple of these monotanous sheets went by, I got careless. For one class I filled in straight fours across the board. For another class, I used PEN! I'm pretty sure that if you use pen on those tests, same for the SATS, it will cause the computer checking them to crash, and then to automatically burst into flames and sing "We Didn't Start the Fire". I would pay to see that.

I don't think anything I say in these eval sheets is going to change anything. It certainly won't inspire reform in any of my classes, and what do I care since I passed them all, and therfore won't be taking them again.

I think we should have these sheets, obviously a tad shorter, for everything in life. I would certainly enjoy filling out a bubble test about the turnpike going west towards my home, or perhaps the chinese buffet in town. Think of how much society would benefit from a good survey! We should get rid of the national census, which asks how many people live in your house, and replace it with a national survey, what do you think of the people that live in your house.

I would love to hand evaluation sheets to my friends. Ask them questions like:
"How much do I annoy you?" - Alot - A little bit - Iffy - Not at all - Never
"I have stylish good looks!" -Totally false - Somewhat false - In the middle - Somewhat true - totally true
"Am I cooler than your other friends" -no -no -no

Think about how much we would know about ourselves! And people would actually change without us having to ask them to!

We could pass these sheets out to other countries. "What do you think of America?" "Does America look good in plaid?" "How does America rate next to Iceland?"

These things would make the world perfect. They would be so helpful for EVERYTHING in life! Like after a concert, I could let the band know that they were a tad blah this evening. I could give one to my girlfriend before I drop her off after we go out on a date. I could fill them out after family gatherings, formal dances, weddings, operations in the hospital, trips to the old folks home, trips to the graveyard, after eating watermelon from Japan, after an AIDS presentation, after a mugging... the possibilities are endless!

Mugger- Give me all your money
Me- Ooh... I would say thats "Very similar" to my other muggings this past 18 weeks