Random Rants LIII: F My Life
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JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
I don't understand. New rant: my computer spontaneously shut down to install some Windows actualisations in the middle of a TW:S2 battle I was about to win.
Kozmos
Jew Detective
You or some other program you installed might have put a task in automated schedule to execute updates at a certain hour. Quite humorous when played as a prank to less-tech savvy gentlemen.
madviking
north american scum
hey guys
remember my last rant about my lab group from hell? WELL IT GOT BETTER (read: worse) THE LAST TWO WEEKS!
8 april - kelly doesn't show to the experiment (2nd in a row! and 3rd overall for those of you keeping track at home!) because she is "dizzy" and me and brad have to do the lab as a duo (again). the prof talks to us about kelly's absences (he's noticed too) and how she can't get a passing grade if she's missed more lab sessions than she's been there for. so apparently she's gonna the same we're doing the next day. eh, could be worse i thought.
last sunday, 13 april - kelly emails the group about her friday afternoon lab session. she said it went okay. everyone in the group has at least two tests in the beginning of the week so we decide to use our second report delay coupon.
tuesday afternoon - i create the google doc which we are going to do our lab report. i send an email to kelly and brad saying get a start on it early.
wednesday afternoon - naturally brad talks to me at our 3:30pm class about the lab report. as a bit of a rewind, brad has the draft of our lab report. but he hasn't put any of the comments into the google doc for the draft of the lab report. i give him this face ->
and tell him to get the hell on writing in the comments on the draft (the draft wasn't very good).
wednesday night - i had to go to one of my clubs last night for elections hence i wasn't able to come home until 9pm. naturally, nothing much is done. kelly has been editing some stuff (albeit poorly). we made the mistake again of having brad do the data analysis (i would do it but he knows what's happening better than i do, and besides, the data is on his computer). so i re-reedit kelly's sections and pretty much end up rewriting half the introduction, objectives, theory, and procedure (10 pages!). 1am comes around and brad hasn't had a peep since "i'm working on it" in response to the data analysis c. 10pm. realizing that brad is being a giant scheisskopf i send him a very very angry email.
thursday - i wake up, open up my computer and see that some figures/charts have been uploaded into the google doc. i'm miffed that it took this long but at least i can skip german class and get this done. i go to my actually really important 9:30am class and around 10:50am i start writing my discussion. but i realize that all brad has uploaded is very basic stuff, nothing about the optimal feed stage location (which was the point of us doing the experiment) to be seen. i try my best to write with the material i have. i get an email a little after 11:30 with all the data. finally! it took only 90 minutes before the lab report was due for me to get all the data! not to mention that the abstract, conclusions, error analysis, and a few other parts of the lab report remain uncompleted!
i throw together a flaming poopstain of a discussion and abstract while brad does the other stuff. at 12:50 (t-minus 10 min) i finish the discussion and turn it in. brad presumably turned in the rest of the lab report. why should i care? he was the reason this lab report is crap.
i then go to my favorite local watering hole.
remember my last rant about my lab group from hell? WELL IT GOT BETTER (read: worse) THE LAST TWO WEEKS!
8 april - kelly doesn't show to the experiment (2nd in a row! and 3rd overall for those of you keeping track at home!) because she is "dizzy" and me and brad have to do the lab as a duo (again). the prof talks to us about kelly's absences (he's noticed too) and how she can't get a passing grade if she's missed more lab sessions than she's been there for. so apparently she's gonna the same we're doing the next day. eh, could be worse i thought.
last sunday, 13 april - kelly emails the group about her friday afternoon lab session. she said it went okay. everyone in the group has at least two tests in the beginning of the week so we decide to use our second report delay coupon.
tuesday afternoon - i create the google doc which we are going to do our lab report. i send an email to kelly and brad saying get a start on it early.
wednesday afternoon - naturally brad talks to me at our 3:30pm class about the lab report. as a bit of a rewind, brad has the draft of our lab report. but he hasn't put any of the comments into the google doc for the draft of the lab report. i give him this face ->
and tell him to get the hell on writing in the comments on the draft (the draft wasn't very good). wednesday night - i had to go to one of my clubs last night for elections hence i wasn't able to come home until 9pm. naturally, nothing much is done. kelly has been editing some stuff (albeit poorly). we made the mistake again of having brad do the data analysis (i would do it but he knows what's happening better than i do, and besides, the data is on his computer). so i re-reedit kelly's sections and pretty much end up rewriting half the introduction, objectives, theory, and procedure (10 pages!). 1am comes around and brad hasn't had a peep since "i'm working on it" in response to the data analysis c. 10pm. realizing that brad is being a giant scheisskopf i send him a very very angry email.
thursday - i wake up, open up my computer and see that some figures/charts have been uploaded into the google doc. i'm miffed that it took this long but at least i can skip german class and get this done. i go to my actually really important 9:30am class and around 10:50am i start writing my discussion. but i realize that all brad has uploaded is very basic stuff, nothing about the optimal feed stage location (which was the point of us doing the experiment) to be seen. i try my best to write with the material i have. i get an email a little after 11:30 with all the data. finally! it took only 90 minutes before the lab report was due for me to get all the data! not to mention that the abstract, conclusions, error analysis, and a few other parts of the lab report remain uncompleted!
i throw together a flaming poopstain of a discussion and abstract while brad does the other stuff. at 12:50 (t-minus 10 min) i finish the discussion and turn it in. brad presumably turned in the rest of the lab report. why should i care? he was the reason this lab report is crap.
i then go to my favorite local watering hole.
Seems someone needs to get a new lab group next semester.
We had that recently: "You know, sometimes...some people...it's not so that you don't like them...but you just don't want to work with them."
Unrelated rant: My appartment smells like a mixture of strong women's perfume, beer and pot. Hope that smell will not annoy me within my sleep :/.
Other unrelated rant: Potentially nothing really worthwhile to do on Sunday and Monday (only a bit on Sunday). Which is totally bad, because it means that I'll a) not get my sleeping rooms painted, because I'll just not start on Sunday and b) there's still too much empty time to kill.
Meh.
We had that recently: "You know, sometimes...some people...it's not so that you don't like them...but you just don't want to work with them."
Unrelated rant: My appartment smells like a mixture of strong women's perfume, beer and pot. Hope that smell will not annoy me within my sleep :/.
Other unrelated rant: Potentially nothing really worthwhile to do on Sunday and Monday (only a bit on Sunday). Which is totally bad, because it means that I'll a) not get my sleeping rooms painted, because I'll just not start on Sunday and b) there's still too much empty time to kill.
Meh.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Mr. Madviking, I can assure you that I can sympathize. Group projects are often difficult no matter where you encounter them in life, be it school, work, video game modding, charity work, and so on. I've seen my fair share of troubles even though I'm relatively still young.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Meanwhile, in the part of Bulgaria I live in we've got a bit of a British weather going on, with almost a week of rain, rain and more rain. Plus grey skies and general depressing mood.
It's forming to be a quite cheery Easter, it seems.
It's forming to be a quite cheery Easter, it seems.
Here the sun just broke through the clouds...so there's hope ^^.
Was not as good as it sounds ^^ (okay, was very nice; still, the pot smell was not really necessary).
Was not as good as it sounds ^^ (okay, was very nice; still, the pot smell was not really necessary).
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
I had to get up early this morning to drive my sister to the dentist. She had written the date down wrong. The dentist was not there today. I have to take her back again next week.
It's cold outside! And García Márquez died! Why do the good ones die?
Dropbox, man!
Could be worse, could be worse. You could be living in England!
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
The working economy would win over the poverty that's here. I'd gladly insert an umbrella into my head if necessary.
Peck of Arabia
Sociable Recluse
I got a nice hot sugary coffee all over my laptop this morning. I don't even have coffee norally, it's usually tea no sugar just in case of such an eventuality. Sigh.
I'm hoping it'll dry out and somehow fix itself, or, failing that, I'm hoping I'll be able to salvage the graphics card and i7 processor and the harddrive
I'm hoping it'll dry out and somehow fix itself, or, failing that, I'm hoping I'll be able to salvage the graphics card and i7 processor and the harddrive
OK, Bulgaria's a disaster, but that doesn't make the UK a fantastic place to live.
H4run
Deity
I really get tired on learning language, include English, now I even cannot speak my own language fluently because I always speak other language beside my mother tongue language. It really scare me, I don't want ending up to be semi languages speaker. Ufff
H4run
Deity
you sure? had you pass this road before? for example when I talk with my parents on skype, sometime I cannot find the exact words in my own language and I get headache after talking with them because forcing myself so much, but when I write in English I also having difficulty to write in a correct manner. When I speak other language sometime I mix it up with Turkish words or grammar. Both me and my friend really worried how we end up in the future.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
It'll get easier, yes. At some point. I now laugh when I remember how I started speaking English in my DELF exam (French).
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