Random Rants : Pissed tae th' gills

[The_J]

Snooping was mostly done by another talkative girl ^^.
But no, don't really regularly meet new girls at work. Probably the last time this year, so meh, not really great (besides maybe the conference next week, but we're there with basically the whole department, so not very good circumstances).
The last one for sure also had a BF. Crap.


And sure, the cold is still there, I want to go to the gym, and it's raining .
Edit: Screw that. Decided not to be contagious, and rather go to bed early *grmpf:.

More important: This morning, in the presentation by a competing group, they showed that they're basically about to publish what's supposed to be my thesis in 3 years.
Utter....utter...utter...yeah, don't know what to say.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

God, today has been tiring. Also, stupid people like to start crap. Some people just need to grow up and act like adults.

Growing up and acting like adults is overrated.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Posted a nice song and tribute to the GF on Facebook, got trolled by an ex- (from my pre-revolutionary days) and found out a platonic gal friend (known her since HS) has the hots for me...

Yeah, a rant... it will sink in...

 

[Kennigit]

while it is nice to hear back about a job application for once, it isn't too nice that it's a not going to be looked at any further

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Tough break, Kennigit.

Work hard, study hard, and use every set back as a lesson...

 

[cardgame]

If only there were any lesson to be learned from lack of employment despite applying.

There's no goddamn feedback mechanism. What went wrong? Am I unqualified for unskilled work? Are my available hours unsatisfactory? Is the process random? Did the job go to someone else's networking?

 

[Borachio]

You can try ringing them up and asking what went wrong.

It does depend on the company, though, whether you get any response, or anything helpful.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Rant: I'm burning out.

I know that feel bro.

Apologies to Phrossak, I thought I could get to your story during this week but I can't.

I've had 3 weeks now of continuous 10-12+ hour days and I've been putting in weekends too. I had a brutal test last week that I passed by the skin of my teeth. Today I had another test and the first thing the professor told us was, "you aren't going to be able to finish this in the time alloted".

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Soul-crushing is what that is. Particulary since I've spent day and night for a week studying the material. I am very comfortable with it and was even able to work through past final exams of this class without undo difficulty. Then he hands us this test that is both extremely complicated and exceedingly lengthy.

He knows we can't finish it - so why did he write it to be so damn long? He could've cut the thing in half and still covered all of the material with the test and also guaranteed that more than half of us would have passed it. As is, he's going to have to do some epic curving because as a class we all tanked it.

Even with the curve, my A just went down the toilet. I'm so frrakking burnt out of school. To top it off - I have to spend most of Thanksgiving break doing homework and working in the lab.

It never ceases to amaze me just how fast a human body can become immobilizingly (not a word, but is one now) ill. I went to bed feeling fine (as fine as I can feel) and woke up less than two hours later. I don't think I've left the bathroom for more than five minutes at a time and both ends are experiencing rapid expulsion of liquid. Thanks body, you da bes.

Oh boy the stomach flu is going around here as well. Hope you got better in a hurry!

while it is nice to hear back about a job application for once, it isn't too nice that it's a not going to be looked at any further

Look on the brightside, at least you heard back! I usually don't hear anything, and when I do it's usually in the form of 'application denied' or something or other that's not helpful.


@Mr. B - with a lot of jobs these days you can't easily ring them up as you apply online and they provide no contact info. Even worse, some of the employers explicitly state you are forbidden from contacting them about your application. Because Boeing cares!

 

[Kennigit]

application denied was the hear back

 

[Borachio]

I've had 3 weeks now of continuous 10-12+ hour days and I've been putting in weekends too. I had a brutal test last week that I passed by the skin of my teeth. Today I had another test and the first thing the professor told us was, "you aren't going to be able to finish this in the time alloted".

Soul-crushing is what that is. Particulary since I've spent day and night for a week studying the material. I am very comfortable with it and was even able to work through past final exams of this class without undo difficulty. Then he hands us this test that is both extremely complicated and exceedingly lengthy.

He knows we can't finish it - so why did he write it to be so damn long? He could've cut the thing in half and still covered all of the material with the test and also guaranteed that more than half of us would have passed it. As is, he's going to have to do some epic curving because as a class we all tanked it.

I'd suspect some political shenanigans going on behind the scenes.

What other explanation could there be? A professor has a vested interest in turning out well-qualified students, doesn't he/she?

Either that or he's trying to shake out the dross from the stars.

 

[Farm Boy]

Either that or he's trying to shake out the dross from the stars.

Sometimes works. Particularly in teasing out students who do well in one area more than another. Gives students the opportunity to earn a "super A" if they are able. Doesn't always work.

 

[Antilogic]

More important: This morning, in the presentation by a competing group, they showed that they're basically about to publish what's supposed to be my thesis in 3 years.
Utter....utter...utter...yeah, don't know what to say.

Getting scooped sucks. I haven't been hit yet, but one of my rants that I have delivered more than once to my collaborators was published this week as an opinion piece in a membrane journal. They asked me to proofread it.

Thanks, buddies. You could have at least offered me second author.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'd suspect some political shenanigans going on behind the scenes.

What other explanation could there be? A professor has a vested interest in turning out well-qualified students, doesn't he/she?

Either that or he's trying to shake out the dross from the stars.

The cohort of students i am in are well passed the weed-out classes. This University (and my department in particular) are extremely gung-hu about weed out classes for sure but we're well past that.

This particular professor also isn't like that either, he is probably the most highly esteemed (by students) professor in the department. He just wrote a bad test and knowing how busy he is, probably didn't have time to fix it as he didn't even finish it until last night. He does curve and given how crestfallen everyone was, he will probably curve it massively.

It just sucked donkey balls to have studied so much and gone into the test even optimistic about it and then get destroyed. I finished roughly half of it with errors in the half I completed.

It was tricky, for sure, however the main issue was that it was just too damn long. Ine person turned in before time was up and he had given up, not completed.

 

[Antilogic]

I loved those exams. I started uncontrollably giggling when I first saw my Separations final back in undergrad.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

-no joke-

My thermo professor told students, and i quote, 'please don't kill yourself in my classroom' as he handed out finals.

 

[Antilogic]

That's hilarious!

Seriously, a glorious defeat is far more fun than a cakewalk, especially if the professor announces he's going to curve the hell out of it ahead of time.

 

[Daird]

I had a final where two girls broke down crying and a third fainted in sheer terror. Nothing involving physics is supposed to be easy.

 

[Gori the Grey]

This particular professor also isn't like that either, he is probably the most highly esteemed (by students) professor in the department. He just wrote a bad test and knowing how busy he is, probably didn't have time to fix it as he didn't even finish it until last night.

Hard to believe he wrote too long a test because he's busy. Any chance that the extra length was a kind of test-within-a-test: see if you can glance through quickly and size up the largest number of questions you can answer in the allotted time, then apply yourself to those. Were a bunch of easier questions at the end (to "penalize" students who don't bother to take in the whole before starting on any part)?

I only propose that because you say he made a point of stressing before you started on it that he was aware it was too long to complete.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

It is extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemely infuriating when I google and google and google and google the hell out of a game glitch, and yet I can not. find. a. single. damn. thing.

Made even worse when I consider asking for help, only to decide not to simply because the only thing people will do is to either ignore me or to "just freaking google it".

Made yet even ever moar worse when I DO ask for help, and I get that treatment anyway.

 

[cardgame]

What seems to be the problem?

Maybe you could try googling it?​