College is fun, except when it isn't.

As you all know, I'm in college now. Some parts are fun, and then there are the parts where I just want to start yelling and punching people. This blog entry is a rant of those times because I can't just go and yell at people.

Rant 1: Bio Lab Partners

I have 3, and I only ended up with them because it was the only seat left in the lab on the first day of class. 2 act like they're so much better than me, like they're smarter than me and they know exactly what to do without reading the lab. Because of those two, they didn't label the test tubes and messed up the whole lab because we had to then guess at what was in each tube. If they had read the lab, they would have known to label the tubes. They should have know to do that anyways. And they like to look at me all smug and with looks that show that they're thinking "oh, look how dumb she is".

And my third lab partner doesn't do ANYTHING. She sits there while I do all the lab procedures and write down all the data, answer the lab questions, do the diagrams and do the questions for review. Then she just copies my stuff. Our Professor said it was fine to copy as long as you put it in your own words. No one in my group does that, and I'm really tired of this girl just sitting there doing nothing and then just copying my stuff. It's like she doesn't know what she's supposed to do. It's like she doesn't even read the lab, even while I'm performing it. She doesn't seem to try to understand any of it either.

I really wish I'd sat at a different table on the first day. I could have gotten lab partners that actually do things and don't treat me like I'm an idiot when they're the ones who make stupid mistakes.

Rant 2: Chemistry Professor

Basically, with this Professor (She's new), the only way to pass her class to have taken AP Chem, or get an A in Chem Lab, since Chem Lab is 20% of the Chem lecture grade. (The two classes have a combined grade). We once asked her to do more examples because we didn't understand the math in the chapter. She did one more example. ONE.

She decided to collect people's homework and give them points, but she would only collet five people's homework a week and she doesn't write down the people she collected homework from, so some kids would end up getting more homework points than others, making the grading unfair. She only started to collect everyones when a ton of kids suggested on her little suggestion thing she made that she collect everyone's homework.

She grades the homework based on if you got the right answer. She doesn't care how you got the answer, just if it's right. So I can go ask a chem major for help, get the right answer, get the points and still have no actual idea on how to do the problem myself. She doesn't care that we understand how to get the answer, she just cares if it's right. She doesn't care if we don't understand, and she could use the homework people keep getting the wrong answers on to take as an opportunity to do more examples on those types of problems. She just wants to you to be right.

She suddenly realised about 57% of her class was failing her tests, so she made study groups led by those who have B+ or higher. And then gave those kids 10% bonus points. When they don't need the bonus points. I know that some people think "why would you give bonus to the failing kids who most likely aren't even trying?". Thing is, we are trying. We're trying as hard as we can to understand what she teaches, but we're still failing. Remember when I said that the one of the only ways to pass was to have taken AP Chem? Not everyone took AP Chem, so for those who didn't, the class is pretty much impossible.

As for her tests, she said she drop the questions to 40 instead of 50 because kids told the other Professor's her tests were too hard. Sure, it gives you more time to work on the math, but it doesn't change the difficulty of the questions. Plus, about a page and half of the test is math. She asks the same questions 3 different times and just changes the numbers. When I say that I mean she asks questions where the way to get the answer is the same in each question, only the numbers changed. Sure, it's good to make sure the kids know how to do the problem, but she doesn't need to ask the same type of questions 3+ times.

Along with that page and a half of math, it doesn't seem like she cares about you understanding the concepts. The other pages are mainly "did you memorize this table I couldn't be bothered to actually teach". She'll ask about one question that deals with your understanding of the concepts she teaches, like how gases behave and the gas laws. She basically just makes us memorize a bunch of tables. Sure sometimes you need to memorize things, but 3+ tables in each chapter, when some of the tables are very large, seems very excessive and lazy.

I only have a C in her class because I have a B in Chem Lab, so 20% of my grade is a B.

Rant 3: Chem Lecture Bonus Project

This basically happened a couple days ago, and part of today. She gave us a bonus project for 25 points, research one of the nobel prizes in chemistry and talk about how it changed the world. Well, she made a spread sheet for us to put down what we were doing so a ton of kids didn't do the same thing. I put my name down for the Prize of 1911 (Radioactivity). I was planning to do the project alone, as I wanted to, when one of the girls from my chem lab just emailed me and said "I'm going to do the project with you". Didn't even ask, just told me.

I said that was fine and told her what part I was going to do. Our Professor wants two things, history of the nobel prize, and the history and reason the person won the nobel prize you're researching. I told the girl in an email that I would do the research on Marie Curie, which meant that she would do the research on the nobel prize. She said that was fine. Then just a day ago, she sends a list of what the professor wants, even though I already know, said she was going to do the "top 3" and I could do the "bottom 2" on that list she sent me. So I continued with the research on Marie Curie, thinking that's what I should do since we already agreed to that, and the email she sent was basically just telling me the same thing, as I already knew what our professor wanted.
We were supposed to meet to make the powerpoint and 1pm today. She didn't show, and then emails me that the library opens at 2pm and that she's in a study room. I asked if 1pm was fine, and she said yes. She sent me that damn message about her being at the library at 2:30. I was already doing something else, and had to be somewhere at 3, which is why I suggested 1pm. If she knew the library opened at 2pm on Sunday she could have told me that when I suggested 1pm. I decided not to go to the meeting because she sent me that email at 2:30, which I really did not appreciate, and I didn't have the time to discuss and make a power point as I had somewhere to be at 3. Instead, I sent her the power point I was making, I sent that email at 2:30pm.

Well...I get a message at 8:50pm with her yelling at me because I did "the part she was supposed to do, and what is she supposed to do now???". I told her that I thought we were doing it so I was doing the stuff on Marie Curie, and she was doing the history of the nobel prize, like we had agreed when she suddenly decided to join me for this project. She sent me another pissy email: "I already did the "top 3" you were supposed to do the 'Bottom 2". I have work to do, and this puts me in a bad place. What am I supposed to do????"

Bitch. So I told her to just ignore what I did. God. It's not that f'ing difficult to figure out what you need to do. I already told her at the beginning what we were doing and then she suddenly switches it up on me, when she KNOWS what we agreed to at the beginning of this.

So now I've decided to not do any of the research on the "bottom 2" because she replied all pissy to me at 8 FREAKING 30, when I had sent her the message with the power point and 2:30! She took 6 hours to reply and got all pissy. Well, maybe if you had looked at when I sent it, this would be easier. She has a bloody iPhone, she can get email very easily. She constantly uses her phone, and apparently even though she uses her phone a lot she couldn't be bothered to see a little red "1" on the dang mail app at 2:30 when I sent her the stuff??? Why the hell should I do something at 8:30 when you have been very inconsiderate and acting like a dang bich? Why the hell should I be considerate of you when you take 6+ hours to reply to an email you got on your iPHone which you always use, and then get all pissy at me. Why should I be considerate when we agreed to a 1pm meeting, I waited for you to show up, and then at 2:30 you tell me the library opens at 2 and you're there?? If you knew that, you should have said that when I set a 1pm meeting!

I am on the damm verge of emailing my Professor telling her that I'd like to switch what I'm doing and I'd like to work by myself, and the girl just signed herself onto my project without even talking to me about it.

Actually, I'm on the verge of just continuing with my powerpoint and not sending her anything. If she's going to be a bitch, take 6 hours to reply to an email, mess up the meeting time and sign herself up with me without talking to me about it, she can deal with me being a bitch in return.

I have other work to you know? I have a chem lab report, due wednesday, like she does. I have a bio quiz wednesday. I have other chem homework, like she does, that I need to do. I have a paper I need to write. I have math and chem to study for as I have a math test friday and a chem test monday, and I need to study really hard for chem because I keep falling.

And yet, I'll still do the extra research for this f'ing project that she just jumped on board with me. Just assumed I'd be fine with it because we're chem lab partners. That's not how the world works hun. I am honestly nearly 100% going to email our professor, tell her that I'm going to do the project by myself because this girl never talked to me about working together and is being incredibly inconsiderate about it. She has a damm chem tutor, she can pass our professors tests with the extra help she's getting. She can deal with missing out of 25 bonus points. I can't. I don't have a tutor, I don't have the extra help so for me to pass the dam tests, I have to study without rest and pray to god that I don't fail.

I'm on the verge of sending my project to our professor by email, instead of uploading to course web and explaining why I'm doing it though an email. That way this bitch doesn't get credit for doing the powerpoint I made. The world don't revolve around you and your work girl. I have work to you know. You need to learn how to be considerate and you need to learn what happens when you're not considerate. Especially with me. I like revenge. And I'll get it. I hold grudges, and I like holding them. I will basically hate you silently and now basically act annoyed and pissed off whenever I have to work with you. I'm not sending you the data for the chem lab you missed. I know the report is due wensday. Dr. Weller said you had to do the lab by yourself, instead of me sending you data. And that's what going to happen. If you got data from someone else, good for you. If you didn't, sucks to be you.

Update: and now she's all like "it's fine I'll do it". *throws hand in air*. You got all pissy, said you had a ton of work, and now you're just gonna do it?? It was my project to begin with, not yours, you just jumped on board without asking. Cunt.

And so ends my rants for today. I'm still pissed though.