You have got to be kidding me

This is a sheet in my Computer Literacy class that refers to a separate book.  In the book, there are “labs” for you to do, like visiting websites and adding them to favorites.  So, at the same time I’m trying to do instructions from an overly basic list of steps, I have to keep referring to this sheet because either:

1. The internet has changed, making the book useless
2. The teacher wants to change the steps to make it mesh better with her teachings
3. I want to torture myself

I’m something of a computer literate person as it is, and this class is so easy it’s hard.  If you skim over something like “Click the Home button in Internet Explorer,” because you’ve done that over and over again and you’re just going to go to a different page anyway, the forward/backward buttons may be greyed out…so when you take a screenshot to prove that you can click a flipping HOME button (for the 20th time), it won’t look right…therefore you get a lesser grade.

If I was new to computers, I’d think that computers are the hardest most complicated thing in the world.  Why?

1. What?  I need 6 books for this class?  It only takes one book to learn physics!  Computers must be hard.
2. If I can’t afford all the books, I still am required to spend $65 for an access code to an online study course.  The teacher apparently can’t teach me what this online course entails because she is only one person and computers are more complicated than that.  I don’t even know what an “online study course” is.  I will pay anyway and learn as I go…hopefully.
3. This is weird.  I went through class today and haven’t even used a computer.  The teacher hasn’t even told me how to use it.  All she had me do was things out of the book.  I’m starting to feel like I could learn this on my own, but I know I can’t because there’s all this overwhelming stuff.
4. I asked a question, but when my teacher’s answer didn’t make sense to me…my partner cleared it up for me.  This is so hard the teacher doesn’t know.  It’s going to take the whole class of students to figure out this magic box!  Teamwork!

Ridiculous.