panic . . .

There is a glaring difference between a good teacher and a not-so-good teacher . . . and I am unfortunately in a desperate situation regarding the latter.

I am now through two weeks of a three week course . . . and I have no idea what the course is about, because I don't comprehend the theory that is the bloody title of the course! So I ask, how is one supposed to write a paper (in less than a week) utilizing a theory that one does not understand? I'm about to find out . . .

And in case anyone's wondering whether it's just my own stupidity, I asked my wife to read the introductory chapter of this professor's book on this theory with the hope that she could then explain it to me . . . my wife (who is monumentally smarter than I, especially when it comes to things of a more psychological, philosophical nature) also could not understand the concept. In addition, I am rather familiar with the glazed-over expression on some of the other students' faces . . .