More rants from me, this time right in the middle of finals, awesome time for me to have so much anger. As always, probable bad language may be in the following:
I asked a girl out a little while ago, got the "I'll think about it" thing. I've seen her many times since, and received no response yet. I'm guessing she either is going to say no, or has forgotten (she is forgetful). While attempting to arrange to hang out with her in a group setting, I've run into a few problems, meaning I need to either wait until classes start back up in mid-late January or figure some way to meet her over break (I do have some kind of an idea, but it depends on a 3rd party's calendar).
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Professors: Please don't assign a project and a take home final to be due the same day with a major paper due the day before. Having only 3 grades for the whole class and having them all due within 2 days (back to back) is not fun.
School: If you are going to have a dance, choose some place that fits a decent number of people. We have a school of ~5,000, you rented a place that holds 250 max. From what I heard, tickets sold out within 2 days last year, and sold out within 6 hours this year but you scheduled them to be on sale all week. Tickets sold out early Tuesday, but it wasn't until at least Friday that an email was sent saying they sold out- why?
To my group for a class project (topic: JFK murder): If you say 1:00, we expect it to be 1:00, not 1:30. The 2 of you residents kept the 2 commuters there (both of us went only for the meeting, we had no other classes that day) waiting for over a half hour. You have literally a 5 minute walk!
If a group meeting is scheduled, hold the meeting! Especially if the due date is coming up. If one member wants to meet with some of the rest of the group for just 5 minutes, why not meet for the 5 minutes? It isn't like you have to drive home anywhere. The project turned out horrible, one of the worst in the class, there was no organization, each person went their own way on the topic. Our group didn't do a group project- we had 6 individual projects covering different parts of the same topic. One example of showing we didn't work together- one of our presenters seemed to me like she was placing the blame on the KKK.
To one member of the group project: When the project seems horrible and I mention that it was a cluster fuck, don't try and blame it all on me. When I reply that it was screwed up by everyone, not an individual, don't call me a jerk. I asked for a few group meetings so that we could go over everything, individual parts and as the completed thing. As I said above, neither happened. I wanted assistance with some things like finding out if a source was trustworthy (for every legitimate info site, there are 50 conspiracy ones) and if some of the sites got accepted, listen to and judge the audio of something (worth playing or not? my ears aren't great) and I get accused of wanting others to do my work. What I wanted help with would have been 5 minutes tops. All of your material was a lot easier to find the facts about. I also wanted to just make sure my material wasn't overlapping someone else's, cover the order of presenting, and try and get some things into the general information before the individual sections start. Surely other people think that is important enough to cover in a group meeting, right?
Luckily we both got good course grades for the class.
Tegrity: Please do not reset the playback speed back to 1x when I pause it. Usually I just want to copy a bit of info from the slide and continue at the 1.5x speed.
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Places I've applied to for internships: Why haven't you returned emails or calls asking for even general information? If you said I can start for an internship, answering when I call or returning my calls for more info on important stuff like what to wear and where and when to meet you would be appreciated if done within I'll be nice and say a week, 6 months doesn't work.
To one department: Why does this major still require an internship? Ok, they are great to do, but why require it if you give 0 help in finding one? You can't even provide a list of places that took interns before? That is one reason my other major's department got rid of the requirement.
To places with help wanted ads: You can't always ask for experienced people only.
To hiring agencies: Would it kill you to at least name the place you are hiring for? I've had a bunch of ideas for my internship go without any calls or emails sent because they were hiring through another company and the name of the company with the open position was not mentioned anywhere.
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Dad: Please follow conversations or at least understand what I am saying. If I say something please don't say something similar 2 seconds later that is almost exactly the same and make it sound like you just thought of it.
Mom: If you are going to give me a suggestion (usually in the form of a newspaper article) for where to intern, please look up what it is, or even if the place's name is even mentioned in the article (She told me once- "Try applying here" when the place wasn't even named at all).
One of my dogs: Please stop scratching at the kitchen floor and the mat your water dish is on for more food. You are spilling the water. You are also getting in the way much more often now than you were before.
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Myself ( ): I realize that in some ways I am what KodiaX was talking about in his "Pussies Must Die" thread. I definitely am when talking to girls I like, once I was left alone with one to walk to a concert in a nearby building (we were walking with a mutual friend and her boyfriend, and our mutual friend "forgot" something in her room and told us to continue). I didn't even ask for her number.
The other night I was at a bar for a friend's party, and saw a friend of her's I might be interested in. I never talked to her, or even asked our mutual friend to introduce us.
Also I procrastinate way too much. Had to read a book for a final last week. Left it all to the last 3 days. Have to write a 12 page paper by Thursday 8am and I am far from finished. I knew I'd have to do both both since at least early November.
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The trigger for this rant was the group project, because I got in a fight with that one member over text message. Then I expanded into everything else. Awesome thing to do just before finals. (Read: Never get angry like this during finals).
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