Monday, September 18, 2006  

[Need to vent...]

What's the use of a blog if you can't bitch about how your life sucks?

I'm still pretty pissed overall about my rig. I can't explain it, but whenever my rig is down/crippled, I'm pissed. Maybe a shrink can tell me why.

The project specs for one of my modules was released a few days ago. It says that project groups can only consist of 3 or 4 people. We already had groups in this module, for us to work on tutorial assignments together. My group had 5 people. Our tutor yanked me out and put me in a team with people I don't know (who were also yanked from 5-people tutorial assignment groups).

I was pissed. Extremely pissed. For a variety of reasons:
  1. Who the hell does the tutor think she is? This is university, not primary/secondary school. I felt that she has no business yanking me from the group, without asking if it was okay. This should be a group decision, not the tutor's decision. I felt like Nick Lachey. When asked when did he feel his marriage was over, he said he didn't. He said he was told. Just like I was.
  2. Our group really is 4+1. 4 of us, and a "new friend". This might sound like a bunch of bull, but if I was her, I'd volunteer to be part of the breakaway group. What difference does it make to her anyway?
  3. Lastly, I was pissed with myself. It was sort-of my idea to ask the new girl to join our tutorial assignment group in the first place. If only I'd kept my mouth shut.
Of course, there were pros and cons with working with new people. Hopefully it goes well. Regardless, I'm bringing this up at the end of the semester, during the lecturer/tutor evaluation.

I'm also frustrated by my project group in another module. Someone seems to disagree with everything I say. And we, as a group, spend too much time working on the small details. Way too much time. Some people just can't seem to understand that in a project group, you can't expect the group to use your ideas every time.

So far, I've had a project group-mate from hell every semester. It's not too bad as of now. But if things don't improve, the streak continues...

^^^ by Locksley @ 10:46 PM. 4 comments.
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You're not alone. I get depressed when my tech toys break down. I'm slowly getting over the death of my Zen's batt. I get really upset when MSN doesn't keep the network up for me to chat. I don't really chat much but seeing other people online makes me feel.. normal.
refering to the incident where you were "yanked" out of your existing group to work with another group.. Dun be mad.. this is part of the training!! your tutor is a good tutor who is simulating real world scenario.. in the real world, you jump from project to project working with different people and you shld take this as a good training ground..
hey man.. is it FNA?
wahahah..
my grp is also screwed.. got a wierd guy staying instead of a normal girl..
fucked..
Yeah. For some reason, there are a lot of part-time tutors in Biz. My sister's MKT tutor also treats them like pri/sec school kids. Not like SoC, when the tutors are usually young students like ourselves.
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