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[athenaltena]

I'm glad that I technically only have two days of classes next week, since the end of this week has made me want to kill something.

In Japanese we have to do group presentations again, and naturally I got stuck with あまい　ゴキブリ when we were drawing names. Though I can now say that this kid is actually even worse than the kid he was nicknamed after. The other girl in my group and I both made it very clear to the professor after class that we're not at all thrilled that we're going to have to put in more work as a result of this kid, and since he is so clueless we're going to have to hold his hand the entire time, and odds are that he's going to drag down our grade. We don't have a choice, but we both wanted to have our feelings on the matter known. And again, I'm not trying to be an asshole, but this kid has honestly no clue what he's doing and half the time I'm pretty sure he's high. I don't appreciate having to do more work because of this schmuck.

Oh, and as I was walking to my next class I spotted The Ex with her arm around some girl. Lovely. It's even the same time of year she dumped me.

And then in my philosophy class we had some privileged, ignorant idiots who actually tried to use Social Darwinism as a justification for bullying. I hope I don't have to explain what's wrong with that. I also mildly lost my temper and apologized to the professor afterwards, but he said that in that case it was warranted.

So yes, just get me to the end of today and the two days I have next week. Hopefully I won't kick anyone into the next timezone, as sorely tempting as it is.

Comments

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

So what did the professor say when you told him that Japanese sweet cockroach "is so clueless we're going to have to hold his hand the entire time, and odds are that he's going to drag down our grade"?

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

Her response was something to the effect of that we're going to have to work with people who aren't as skilled as us in our adult lives, so it's a good life skill. I was polite enough to not tell her that I thought this was bullshit.

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

I was hoping to hear that she assured you that she understood and this would not pull down your grade...

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

She didn't, which is why I'm so pissed off about this. And the entire group is getting graded, not individual performances, so I have no doubt that he will drag our grade down. And I'm really not exaggerating about how bad he does, I sit next to him and I know that he has no clue what he's doing, and it's not exactly a secret to the rest of the class.

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

This also reminds me why my least favorite words in college classes are "group work" and variations thereof.

[iamduvet.livejournal.com]

*insert witty comment to be edited in at a later time when the poster can actually think of something witty yet helpful to say*
Just go on your favorite PC game or MMO and go on a aggervation, fustration fueled spree if you really want to kill something.

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

I might go and blow stuff up in TF2 later, just because it's been that kind of week.

[le-section-8.livejournal.com]

Funny, I thought the fact that they invoked Social Darwinism at all would be explanation enough.

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

I was pretty flabbergasted that it got brought up at all, because the entire time I've been in school it's been presented as a bad thing used by bad people that's been used to justify bad actions. Not to mention that it's complete and utter bullcrap.

Maybe not coincidentally, the kid who brought it up actually described himself as having no morals at the beginning of class. And in that same class we had people who have obviously never actually been bullied because they seem to think that all the victim has to do is "fight back". Uh...