Random Rants #63: These Rants Don't Run

[Phrossack]

I know that feel bro.

Take it from me, you'll be fine in the long run.

I've never been criticized by a professor like this, though. Combined with a bunch of other issues that are overwhelming me, I just feel like crap today.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I swear to freaking God I am going to build a weather control device if winter keeps poking its dreary mug in April.

 

[Hygro]

I am now sick. Posting yesterday was very stressful. Drinking in response was not good for my immune system. Such are things.

 

[shadowplay]

(bro hugs)

 

[Rashiminos]

I swear to freaking God I am going to build a weather control device if winter keeps poking its dreary mug in April.

The winter is coming memes are also getting out of hand.

 

[choxorn]

For me personally things seem to be going worse than they ever have
Like every aspect of living is closing in on disaster.

In brief: nothing is going well

 

[W|M]

I swear to freaking God I am going to build a weather control device if winter keeps poking its dreary mug in April.

Weather control devices are thought to already exist, you could try to steal one

I am now sick. Posting yesterday was very stressful. Drinking in response was not good for my immune system. Such are things.

You haven't drunk enough

 

[JohannaK]

Argh, I was absolutely sure that the deadline for submission was 22:51 today, but it was 22:31, so I submitted it 10 minutes too late. Why? because I realised I needed more examples and references. The problem is that my main source referenced these books, and when I found them I couldn't find any support for what this main source used these books for! So I wasted over an hour looking for these books and then looking for examples in the books themselves. Grr...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I've never been criticized by a professor like this, though. Combined with a bunch of other issues that are overwhelming me, I just feel like crap today.

That sucks and it also sucks that your chances of getting an internship through this professor went out the window. But you'll still be fine in the long run. I once got cursed out for over an hour by a professor (actually cursed out - he dropped the eff bomb at me every couple of minutes) and it didn't change anything for me over the long run.

 

[sophie]

You have to keep in mind that it's a good thing if the professor is taking the time to chew you out. It means he remembers and cares enough about you to try to get you to do better. I'd rather a professor that's going to yell at me for messing up than to be failing a class and the professor not even know it's happening.

Also? It's never too late to start rebuilding that trust. A bridge is only ever truly burned when you give up trying to cross.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah Owen's right on that.



(except in my particular case - he just wanted me to drop the class to keep his statistics from being screwed over lol )

 

[Cutlass]

I took a header down a staircase today while carrying about 100 pounds. Everything landed on my shoulder and drove it into the sidewalk.

 

[Takhisis]

(except in my particular case - he just wanted me to drop the class to keep his statistics from being screwed over lol )

He what.

 

[cardgame]

Sounds like a rather disgusting excuse of a professor.

rant: im so far behind on my laundry oh god

 

[Lohrenswald]

I am basically, right now, in this very 24-hour period, failing all of my subjects and I have like no motivation to save myself

 

[Kennigit]

Hope you're alright cutlass

For lohr, hopefully you keep your hopes up. Cfcers dont have the pleasure of being the happiest of folks, but partly being around in these threads you do see folks turn out well in the long run.


I have a somewhat thin but very powerful hope that I'm cluching onto right now. My life is in a completely unknown state for the rest of April, but maybe I'll know sooner.

Basically I'm trying to get a fresher start. If I dont get one, well....there's some hope I have but it's even thinner.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I took a header down a staircase today while carrying about 100 pounds. Everything landed on my shoulder and drove it into the sidewalk.

Ouch! I hope you didn't do any serious damage to yourself.

He what.

Sounds like a rather disgusting excuse of a professor.

Yup, that actually happened.

I already knew I was going to fail the class. It was a done deal at that point. He had been giving 3 homework assignments per week that were dramatically harder than any Calculus homework you've ever done. Drastically hard as in 'the smartest graduate student you know takes 5 hours to work through each set'. Three times a week, every week.

I studied with a buddy and we actually worked through them together. The professor then accused us of cheating. Since I couldn't get through the problems on my own so I stopped trying. I was also pretty depressed and bogged down with 20+ hours a week of satellite team work plus 13 credit hours of other advanced courses. The logical step for me was to triage the situation and instead of doing homework I couldn't complete, I used that time to work on my other classes and the satellite team.

So like I said, I already knew I was going to fail. However, if I failed the class, I wouldn't graduate, so I decided to stick through to the end. My GPA wasn't going to move much with an F so I had nothing to lose to see it through and try and pass the exams and get a mercy D.


Anywho, I went to his office hours to talk to him about a problem I was trying to solve on the satellite team and he proceeded to curse me out. I wasn't there to talk about the class but that's all he wanted to talk about. He barely let me talk. He told me to drop the class, that I was 'effing dumb' for not dropping. Then he kept on calling me effing dumb and effing this, that and the effing other.

And I had to sit there and take it. I don't know if this aspect of my personality shows through on these forums but I'm not the type to just sit and take crap like that but I had no choice if I wanted any shred of a chance to pass the class.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Separate rant:

Yesterday I went and saw my grandmother a last time before I move. I hope that it's not the last time I ever see her; I made a point to burn the image of her face into my brain before I left. I'm really sad thinking about it right now.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I am basically, right now, in this very 24-hour period, failing all of my subjects and I have like no motivation to save myself

got saved in one subject because of pity basically
another subject looks completely hopeless, though

@Hobbsyoyo I just remembered how awful I felt for not seeing my grandmother before she died. Hopefully you'll have it end better.

 

[Takhisis]

So I'm peeved. Effin' flu for the past… three days? requiring consumption of ibuprofen. Then, when making the effort to try and attend university anyway, this former Presidentess of the Argentine Republic has to make an appearance and order her supporters to come out. So all roads are flooded with extremely expensive cars and vans they take, and I am prevented from reaching the university. This is most vexing.

And me effin' throat hurts no matter how much tea I drink.