Rage (Fear and Loathing)
Jan. 13th, 2008 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jheti
God, having to sift through other peoples' one-paragraph "papers"--which they don't even spellcheck with the built-in spellchecker, the one built right into the post interface itself--is bad enough.
I should not get, under any circumstances, a letter at 4pm telling me "Whoa, hey, a bunch of you guys are totally doing it wrong and you need a higher postcount" when the fucking work is due MIDNIGHT OF THAT DAY.
I think--and I'm still not positive, but I THINK--what he originally wanted was this:
Two ideas. One idea = one post. Then one comment. That makes three posts PER CHAPTER.
The way he wrote the instructions? I'm not the only person who swore, pulled their hair, and rewrote three times and still got it wrong.
So, instead of having it all finished and just praising what passes for strung together sentences?
Even more work. Because he wasn't clear in the first place.
I think I'd be less pissed if I hadn't already had to cut my work in half and glue it back together and then double it, just to churn out the first two posts. It's not that it's hard; all his instructions contradict each other and I have no way of knowing if any of it will stick, and I cannot and will not relax until grades are returned, because how the hell else am I going to know if I did it right?
Work's done. Still deeply disgusted. My mother's about to get upset with me, I can tell.
I wish I were more outwardly violent. I'd like to break something right now.
I should not get, under any circumstances, a letter at 4pm telling me "Whoa, hey, a bunch of you guys are totally doing it wrong and you need a higher postcount" when the fucking work is due MIDNIGHT OF THAT DAY.
I think--and I'm still not positive, but I THINK--what he originally wanted was this:
Two ideas. One idea = one post. Then one comment. That makes three posts PER CHAPTER.
The way he wrote the instructions? I'm not the only person who swore, pulled their hair, and rewrote three times and still got it wrong.
So, instead of having it all finished and just praising what passes for strung together sentences?
Even more work. Because he wasn't clear in the first place.
I think I'd be less pissed if I hadn't already had to cut my work in half and glue it back together and then double it, just to churn out the first two posts. It's not that it's hard; all his instructions contradict each other and I have no way of knowing if any of it will stick, and I cannot and will not relax until grades are returned, because how the hell else am I going to know if I did it right?
Work's done. Still deeply disgusted. My mother's about to get upset with me, I can tell.
I wish I were more outwardly violent. I'd like to break something right now.
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Date: 2008-01-14 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-15 11:22 pm (UTC)Alas, if I did he would not see it, because it is an online class.
I'm going to go to that professor rating site and look him up and warn people off, though. ^_^
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Date: 2008-01-17 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-14 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-15 11:24 pm (UTC)<3, because it's hard to say "^_^" and look fierce. XD
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Date: 2008-01-15 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-15 11:25 pm (UTC)<3