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Five weeks of class left, and counting. And within that time frame I have many, many papers due; papers that I have been using to hone my extraordinary procrastination skills but are now requiring demanding my full and undivided attention. Oh how I hate this time of the year.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate group projects? Just for the record, I despise them. They're like relics of high school making their way into university, only unlike high school I can't just seize control of the entire group and do things my way, because everyone else in the group is just as power-hungry and overly opinionated as I am. And like me, they all want an A+, but they also want to use their own methods to achieve that A+. Obviously there ends up being some kind of power struggle, and obviously I lose because I haven't befriended the majority of the student population and therefore don't have exploitable social connections with nearly everyone on campus. I've always maintained that group projects are nothing more than another opportunity for the professors to inflict pain on the students, and my group projects this term are doing nothing to dispel that myth. If you want a fun way to spend an evening, try writing an eight page paper with four other people, one of whom continually disrupts any semblance of progress to offer ridiculous "suggestions" and complain about how stressed she is. News flash: Finals are right around the corner! We're all stressed! But can we please, please get this stupid paper written?
Since I need to hang around campus for dinner tonight, courtesy of yet another lovely group project, I'm trying to decide whether I want to eat pizza or a wrap. Obviously the pizza wins out in the taste department, and also in the food safety department because it arrives every morning in a truck and spends the rest of the day sitting behind glass, which therefore means that it has not been touched by the food prep people. Not that I have anything against the cafeteria's food prep people, but I'm having trouble erasing the memory of one of them sneezing over the chicken burger patties last month. But where the pizza loses out is the health department, because any food that requires copious amounts of grease to be absorbed from its surface with a napkin before it is fit for consumption is clearly not going to fall into the low-calorie category.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate group projects? Just for the record, I despise them. They're like relics of high school making their way into university, only unlike high school I can't just seize control of the entire group and do things my way, because everyone else in the group is just as power-hungry and overly opinionated as I am. And like me, they all want an A+, but they also want to use their own methods to achieve that A+. Obviously there ends up being some kind of power struggle, and obviously I lose because I haven't befriended the majority of the student population and therefore don't have exploitable social connections with nearly everyone on campus. I've always maintained that group projects are nothing more than another opportunity for the professors to inflict pain on the students, and my group projects this term are doing nothing to dispel that myth. If you want a fun way to spend an evening, try writing an eight page paper with four other people, one of whom continually disrupts any semblance of progress to offer ridiculous "suggestions" and complain about how stressed she is. News flash: Finals are right around the corner! We're all stressed! But can we please, please get this stupid paper written?
Since I need to hang around campus for dinner tonight, courtesy of yet another lovely group project, I'm trying to decide whether I want to eat pizza or a wrap. Obviously the pizza wins out in the taste department, and also in the food safety department because it arrives every morning in a truck and spends the rest of the day sitting behind glass, which therefore means that it has not been touched by the food prep people. Not that I have anything against the cafeteria's food prep people, but I'm having trouble erasing the memory of one of them sneezing over the chicken burger patties last month. But where the pizza loses out is the health department, because any food that requires copious amounts of grease to be absorbed from its surface with a napkin before it is fit for consumption is clearly not going to fall into the low-calorie category.