Additionally, I've decided its time for me to get a real tutor. I think it's time for you to get a real brain, a clue and some sense of responsibility for your own life. You seem to be blaming me for you not going so well in your exam(s). After I spent hours of my own time helping you, doing the best I could, I think that's a little unfair.
You spent all day Sunday socialising, the last weekend day left that I could help you study, after I've clearly told you I prefer to tutor you on weekends when I'm not worn out after work. You expect me to somehow do research to learn material for your subjects that you have neither a textbook nor lecture notes for, while I have a full time job and you're at home sleeping in. Then on the night before the exam you spend well over an hour chin wagging in the supermarket, take twice as long eating dinner than everyone else because you're staring at the fish and then by the time we get started its almost 9pm and you wonder why I'm tired and can't concentrate. I had an important report due out at work the next day, and was in salary negotiations with the boss, so it wasn't the time to be turning up half a sleep because I was helping a friend cram for exams the night before.
I said I would help you and I did the best that I could. I never said I would do everything for you, nor did I claim to be able to magically make you understand something. If that's not good enough and you're not happy with your results then I'm sorry. But that's no excuse to send guilt-trip sms's and take shots at me on livejournal. Especially after what happened last time I posted a comment online.
If you're ever going to get anywhere professionally you'll need to change your high-school "I don't like learning" attitude and quit the "nothing's ever my fault or responsibility" routine. If you're struggling so much with your studies and aren't enjoying what you're doing at uni then maybe you should rethink how you get into the field you want to be in. Chances are you won't get the dream job you want and you'll be working on stuff not unlike what you're studying now.
I wish you all the best in your degree and future career, but if you ever ask me for help again, you'd better precede it with an decent apology.
I think it's time for you to get a real brain, a clue and some sense of responsibility for your own life. You seem to be blaming me for you not going so well in your exam(s). After I spent hours of my own time helping you, doing the best I could, I think that's a little unfair.
You spent all day Sunday socialising, the last weekend day left that I could help you study, after I've clearly told you I prefer to tutor you on weekends when I'm not worn out after work. You expect me to somehow do research to learn material for your subjects that you have neither a textbook nor lecture notes for, while I have a full time job and you're at home sleeping in. Then on the night before the exam you spend well over an hour chin wagging in the supermarket, take twice as long eating dinner than everyone else because you're staring at the fish and then by the time we get started its almost 9pm and you wonder why I'm tired and can't concentrate. I had an important report due out at work the next day, and was in salary negotiations with the boss, so it wasn't the time to be turning up half a sleep because I was helping a friend cram for exams the night before.
I said I would help you and I did the best that I could. I never said I would do everything for you, nor did I claim to be able to magically make you understand something. If that's not good enough and you're not happy with your results then I'm sorry. But that's no excuse to send guilt-trip sms's and take shots at me on livejournal. Especially after what happened last time I posted a comment online.
If you're ever going to get anywhere professionally you'll need to change your high-school "I don't like learning" attitude and quit the "nothing's ever my fault or responsibility" routine. If you're struggling so much with your studies and aren't enjoying what you're doing at uni then maybe you should rethink how you get into the field you want to be in. Chances are you won't get the dream job you want and you'll be working on stuff not unlike what you're studying now.
I wish you all the best in your degree and future career, but if you ever ask me for help again, you'd better precede it with an decent apology.
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...so I don't think I owe you an apology, because the search for a new tutor was done with your benefit in mind.
Take it as you will....
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