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I just don't get some people.
Alright, so, we had an oral exam in Spanish yesterday. Not a biggie. Me and my partner worked on the script for several days. I realized that my partner wasn't absolutely fantabulous at Spanish like me, but I still wanted the script to sound like real people and not like degenerate five year olds. I wrote most of the script... ANd I didn't have a problem with that, because Anita really did want to help. I just felt that it would be easiest if I made up the script and she just memorizes her part. It was only a three minute skit, you know? What could go wrong?
Anita gave every indication to me that she knew what we were doing. She implied that she was writing things down as we went. I felt that I answered questions as to who was saying what and what we were doing clearly. If I thought that there was anything short of assuming she was dull and holding her hand through it all, I would have done it. But it wasn't enough.
Before we went to bed, I told Anita that we were going to meet up at 2:00 before class to do a quick run through of the skit.
We went to bed a few minutes later.
I had a good day up until about 2. No Anita. I waited and waited. She never came. I thought that maybe something had happened to her.... A car accident. Or worse.
Anita finally comes in just in time for class. I ask her where she had been. Turns out Anita had either forgotten my messsage or had just never read it at all. She coldn't figure out which it was. But she swore up and down that she knew her lines. Again, not a big deal. As long as she knew her lines.
Now, maybe this was a mistake... But I did try and make my script sound real. As a result, my lines were specific responses to her lines. They weren't sentences that could go with anything. So when Anita said half of a line and then just stared at me, waiting for me to do something, I knew we were doomed.
It wouldn't have been so bad had I brought my script with me. But I was told that we were not allowed to have ANY kind of a script. For any reason. We were expected to have memorized our lines... I had.
Anita hadn't even written this line down. And now I was stuck in a position where I was going to have to make something up on the spot. I didn't known her line. I hadn't memorized it. But now that she didn't know it... MY lines wouldn't make any sense.
So yeah, it was a disaster. She's going to dock so many points for "lack of preparation", I just know it... *I* was prepared. She wasn't. Take points away from HER. I can't even explain to her that it wasn't my goddamned fault. But professors don't like to hear things like that and get rather pissed off when they're forced into it.
And then when I tried to explain to her that it was VERY IMPORTANT THAT I KEEP MY A IN THAT CLASS, she reassured me that a C was not a bad grade and that if I get an A- on my transcript, I will be fine.
I hate it when people say shit like that. Just because you could care less about doing anything but passing doesn't mean that I don't hold myself to higher standards. And by God, if *I'm* working on a project to get an A, you should at least have the consideration to NOT SCREW IT UP FOR ME, and admit to the professor that you screwed up. Or better yet, DON'T SCREW UP.
This is why I hate all manner of group projects and why I opted to do the group project for nutrition by myself. I can't rely on people. They all too often let me down. As my mom said though... "Best to learn a lesson from this, that usually, people don't have the standards that you do and therefore, it will be necessary to do the job yourself."
Thanks Mom. Don't how I would have done a skit by myself though. --''
Alright, so, we had an oral exam in Spanish yesterday. Not a biggie. Me and my partner worked on the script for several days. I realized that my partner wasn't absolutely fantabulous at Spanish like me, but I still wanted the script to sound like real people and not like degenerate five year olds. I wrote most of the script... ANd I didn't have a problem with that, because Anita really did want to help. I just felt that it would be easiest if I made up the script and she just memorizes her part. It was only a three minute skit, you know? What could go wrong?
Anita gave every indication to me that she knew what we were doing. She implied that she was writing things down as we went. I felt that I answered questions as to who was saying what and what we were doing clearly. If I thought that there was anything short of assuming she was dull and holding her hand through it all, I would have done it. But it wasn't enough.
Before we went to bed, I told Anita that we were going to meet up at 2:00 before class to do a quick run through of the skit.
We went to bed a few minutes later.
I had a good day up until about 2. No Anita. I waited and waited. She never came. I thought that maybe something had happened to her.... A car accident. Or worse.
Anita finally comes in just in time for class. I ask her where she had been. Turns out Anita had either forgotten my messsage or had just never read it at all. She coldn't figure out which it was. But she swore up and down that she knew her lines. Again, not a big deal. As long as she knew her lines.
Now, maybe this was a mistake... But I did try and make my script sound real. As a result, my lines were specific responses to her lines. They weren't sentences that could go with anything. So when Anita said half of a line and then just stared at me, waiting for me to do something, I knew we were doomed.
It wouldn't have been so bad had I brought my script with me. But I was told that we were not allowed to have ANY kind of a script. For any reason. We were expected to have memorized our lines... I had.
Anita hadn't even written this line down. And now I was stuck in a position where I was going to have to make something up on the spot. I didn't known her line. I hadn't memorized it. But now that she didn't know it... MY lines wouldn't make any sense.
So yeah, it was a disaster. She's going to dock so many points for "lack of preparation", I just know it... *I* was prepared. She wasn't. Take points away from HER. I can't even explain to her that it wasn't my goddamned fault. But professors don't like to hear things like that and get rather pissed off when they're forced into it.
And then when I tried to explain to her that it was VERY IMPORTANT THAT I KEEP MY A IN THAT CLASS, she reassured me that a C was not a bad grade and that if I get an A- on my transcript, I will be fine.
I hate it when people say shit like that. Just because you could care less about doing anything but passing doesn't mean that I don't hold myself to higher standards. And by God, if *I'm* working on a project to get an A, you should at least have the consideration to NOT SCREW IT UP FOR ME, and admit to the professor that you screwed up. Or better yet, DON'T SCREW UP.
This is why I hate all manner of group projects and why I opted to do the group project for nutrition by myself. I can't rely on people. They all too often let me down. As my mom said though... "Best to learn a lesson from this, that usually, people don't have the standards that you do and therefore, it will be necessary to do the job yourself."
Thanks Mom. Don't how I would have done a skit by myself though. --''