Why the hell not?
It seems as though I've proven myself right; I should never have started a Live Journal. My life is far too uninteresting to write about consistently, so I fall into the useless cliche (and everyone who knows me understands my complete disgust with cliche) of people who update their journal once every few weeks, most of the time including some version of the phrase "I haven't updated this thing in a while" and feel a need to only because they are bored and were reminded by someone about a stupid account they have, that they continue receive spam for, and might as well use while it's there. Well, I'm getting annoying spam, and I don't want to know that I'm subjecting myself to advertising for no reason, so, I update.
In case you haven't noticed, I'm in a foul mood.
I tried working in a lab group this semester, and was reminded why I don't like to do group projects. People like to take quick command, which is what groups often need, but when that happens they feel as though since they took control that they are always right. I got very quickly lost about our research topic and still don't entirely understand what we were trying to prove. I suggested corrections to our protocol a few times and only got credit for one of them (the others they recognized after I stated it and denied my observations/recommendations). We also had to do a paper and poster for the evaluation of our research, which turned out to be a mess. When the paper's sections were divided up and assigned to each group member to complete, I must have misunderstood and spent the majority of my time writing something that someone else was writing. By the end of the paper, I had spent two hours researching and trying to translate that into a paper when only a few sentences were used. My group accused me of not doing my share and handed in the paper anyway. When the paper was handed back, we decided that two members would work on the second draft and the other two would work on the poster. I was chosen to work on the poster with the same girl that wrote the same part of the paper as I did (mind you, she is the only one of the three girls that is still outgoing toward me). Several days passed without me hearing anything from any of the girls who, unknown to me, had decided to do the entire poster by themselves and not include me. They didn't use what I wrote, didn't have me help correct, and didn't tell me when or where they were working on the poster. Today we had to decide how much of a percentage each person gets of the total group evaluation grade. Each of the three girls gave themselves 100% and acted like it was some judgement day when it was time for me. "Ok Joe, time to decide what you think you got." They all seemed angry at me for leaving me out (does that sentence even make sense?). Since none of them would step up and say anything other than that I didn't deserve a 100%, I had to step up and tell them that I will take a 60%. I expected a "Come on, you can't pass with that low of a score," but all I got was silence. I told them that I didn't think I was going to pass the lecture part of this course, so the score didn't matter to me, and I would almost say there was a bit of guilt on their faces...if I didn't know how justified they felt knowing that they did all the work, so I have to suffer. I was left out of group work that I have to hope was good enough that if I get 60% of the grade I can save myself in that class. Perhaps I am most upset about the fact that two of them seem to not want to have anything to do with me. I got a bad grade and lost friends because I wasn't informed how to help.
Sin City is a great movie, go see it.
There is only a week and a half left of classes, and my exams are over on May 13th. I guess I can say that my first year of college was an experience in failure that won't soon be forgotten. When I come home for summer I'm not going to start work for the first week or two so I can see my friends and relax before I go back to working 30 hours a week so that I can save up enough money to come back here...hopefully I'll do better next semester.
May 19th is the release date of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. For those of you who don't know, I love Star Wars and this is one of my most anticipated movies. I want to (as most fans will) have a marathon of all of the prior 5 movies. I want to watch them in chronological order, but I don't know what timeline: real or movie? I could watch I, II, IV, V, VI but that would make a hole between II and IV. Besides, I want to see Episode II right before I go to see the first possible showing of Episode III. Wow, I can't wait until the most prevalent issue on my mind is what order to watch 5 of my favorite movies before I go see a movie I've been anticipating for years.
I don't know why I'm typing this. Nobody reads this garbage. I guess I'm just using it as a stress reliever.
In case you haven't noticed, I'm in a foul mood.
I tried working in a lab group this semester, and was reminded why I don't like to do group projects. People like to take quick command, which is what groups often need, but when that happens they feel as though since they took control that they are always right. I got very quickly lost about our research topic and still don't entirely understand what we were trying to prove. I suggested corrections to our protocol a few times and only got credit for one of them (the others they recognized after I stated it and denied my observations/recommendations). We also had to do a paper and poster for the evaluation of our research, which turned out to be a mess. When the paper's sections were divided up and assigned to each group member to complete, I must have misunderstood and spent the majority of my time writing something that someone else was writing. By the end of the paper, I had spent two hours researching and trying to translate that into a paper when only a few sentences were used. My group accused me of not doing my share and handed in the paper anyway. When the paper was handed back, we decided that two members would work on the second draft and the other two would work on the poster. I was chosen to work on the poster with the same girl that wrote the same part of the paper as I did (mind you, she is the only one of the three girls that is still outgoing toward me). Several days passed without me hearing anything from any of the girls who, unknown to me, had decided to do the entire poster by themselves and not include me. They didn't use what I wrote, didn't have me help correct, and didn't tell me when or where they were working on the poster. Today we had to decide how much of a percentage each person gets of the total group evaluation grade. Each of the three girls gave themselves 100% and acted like it was some judgement day when it was time for me. "Ok Joe, time to decide what you think you got." They all seemed angry at me for leaving me out (does that sentence even make sense?). Since none of them would step up and say anything other than that I didn't deserve a 100%, I had to step up and tell them that I will take a 60%. I expected a "Come on, you can't pass with that low of a score," but all I got was silence. I told them that I didn't think I was going to pass the lecture part of this course, so the score didn't matter to me, and I would almost say there was a bit of guilt on their faces...if I didn't know how justified they felt knowing that they did all the work, so I have to suffer. I was left out of group work that I have to hope was good enough that if I get 60% of the grade I can save myself in that class. Perhaps I am most upset about the fact that two of them seem to not want to have anything to do with me. I got a bad grade and lost friends because I wasn't informed how to help.
Sin City is a great movie, go see it.
There is only a week and a half left of classes, and my exams are over on May 13th. I guess I can say that my first year of college was an experience in failure that won't soon be forgotten. When I come home for summer I'm not going to start work for the first week or two so I can see my friends and relax before I go back to working 30 hours a week so that I can save up enough money to come back here...hopefully I'll do better next semester.
May 19th is the release date of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. For those of you who don't know, I love Star Wars and this is one of my most anticipated movies. I want to (as most fans will) have a marathon of all of the prior 5 movies. I want to watch them in chronological order, but I don't know what timeline: real or movie? I could watch I, II, IV, V, VI but that would make a hole between II and IV. Besides, I want to see Episode II right before I go to see the first possible showing of Episode III. Wow, I can't wait until the most prevalent issue on my mind is what order to watch 5 of my favorite movies before I go see a movie I've been anticipating for years.
I don't know why I'm typing this. Nobody reads this garbage. I guess I'm just using it as a stress reliever.