Ugh.
Ever feel like simply punching a fellow classmate? A straight shot to the jaw would feel quite satisfying. Here's the situation:
A student whom I have more than one class with (let's call him "AJ") declined to go on a field trip because he said "I can't miss chemistry class that day." Now this field trip wasn't any normal field trip. It required a roster to be sent in far in advance of exactly who was going to be going and all their personal information. These people would flip out if you were even 5 min. late to the meeting point (which they did, according to another student who went). So it was a big deal when AJ, who had previously said that he was going, said that he couldn't go only 3 days before the event. And the reason he gave was that he couldn't miss chemistry. I have chemistry class with him, so I looked for him on that day. Lo and behold, he never showed up. So on Monday, when time for chem class rolled around again, myself *and* my fellow geology majors who attended chemistry class that previous day were talking about how AJ basically skipped class for no good reason. Well apparently, word got back to AJ that we were talking about him, and he somehow fixated on me in particular as being the gossip starting point. So, minerology class rolls around on Tuesday, and we have reached the point in class where we take a break before starting out lab assignment. I overhear, as I'm walking down the stairs, AJ talking to another student in the class... saying "Oh well Kathryn was saying that I wasn't there...." in a very condescending tone. At this point in his sentance, he heard me comming down the stairs behind them and he stopped talking until I was out of normal earshot. I have better than average hearing, so I heard him continue to talk about me as he walked down the hallway. I felt like decking him. This isn't the first time that he's been a little snot to me. I'm torn between two choices in dealing with this... be an uber bitch to him for the rest of the semester and hope he grows up a little over winter break, because this is not the last time I'll see him in classes.... or just ignore him completly and pretend he dosen't even exist.
Thoughts? Comments? Spare change?
A student whom I have more than one class with (let's call him "AJ") declined to go on a field trip because he said "I can't miss chemistry class that day." Now this field trip wasn't any normal field trip. It required a roster to be sent in far in advance of exactly who was going to be going and all their personal information. These people would flip out if you were even 5 min. late to the meeting point (which they did, according to another student who went). So it was a big deal when AJ, who had previously said that he was going, said that he couldn't go only 3 days before the event. And the reason he gave was that he couldn't miss chemistry. I have chemistry class with him, so I looked for him on that day. Lo and behold, he never showed up. So on Monday, when time for chem class rolled around again, myself *and* my fellow geology majors who attended chemistry class that previous day were talking about how AJ basically skipped class for no good reason. Well apparently, word got back to AJ that we were talking about him, and he somehow fixated on me in particular as being the gossip starting point. So, minerology class rolls around on Tuesday, and we have reached the point in class where we take a break before starting out lab assignment. I overhear, as I'm walking down the stairs, AJ talking to another student in the class... saying "Oh well Kathryn was saying that I wasn't there...." in a very condescending tone. At this point in his sentance, he heard me comming down the stairs behind them and he stopped talking until I was out of normal earshot. I have better than average hearing, so I heard him continue to talk about me as he walked down the hallway. I felt like decking him. This isn't the first time that he's been a little snot to me. I'm torn between two choices in dealing with this... be an uber bitch to him for the rest of the semester and hope he grows up a little over winter break, because this is not the last time I'll see him in classes.... or just ignore him completly and pretend he dosen't even exist.
Thoughts? Comments? Spare change?