fuk u in teh iey!!1

The BBQ Pit
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I’ve always wanted to use that as a thread title.

For organic chemistry this semester, there were four exams. We get to keep our three highest grades, while the lowest is not counted. Grades are calculated based on the mean rather than the score out of 100 possible points for each.

This morning there was a makeup exam for people who had to miss one of the tests for whatever reason. It was open to people who took the other four tests as practice for the final, but it can’t count for any points for the people who didn’t miss any of the original four. Because everyone who had to take the makeup could have missed any one of the exams, it covered material from the whole semester.

Based on the professor’s penchant for trick questions and having problems dealing with rather obscure material, I expected the makeup to be rather difficult. Such was not the case, however.

The motherfucking thing was nothing. I could have not studied at all last night and I still could have aced it. Hell, I could have missed the whole goddamned thing altogether and still done well. I really cannot stress how crack-whore easy this thing was. Past exams are always online to use in studying, but this one had questions that were taken DIRECTLY from last year’s makeup and made EASIER.

I know some of the people who were taking it for keeps. These people aren’t fuckups, here. They did well on the other tests. The MIND-FUCKING EASE of this test is going to position people quite nicely for fucking up the average and making things quite unpleasant for everyone else.

I got screwed twice today. The first time happened when this test provides no decent preparation as to how the final is going to be. The second time is going to take place once the averages are calculated.

Even though the poor performance of other students relative to my own DOES help my grade, I still studied my ass off for all four of the previous tests and fucked up on two of them. Even though the one I did badly on that I don’t get to drop was only 1 point short of the mean, it still would have been nice to receive a gimme as such. So here they fucking HAND a good grade to the people who missed one of the main tests for whatever reason. It’s ridiculous that so many other students in the class who put forth a considerable effort only to get PENETRATED by the other tests didn’t have the opportunity to indulge in this little luxury. It was not a challenge, it was nothing, a formality, a VOID.

It is simply not fair that fewer than 20 people get an opportunity to take a test that required no effort while everyone else got screwed with tests that actually required the use of more parts of the brain than the motor cortex.

God.

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Et shet.

[sub]I always wanted to use that in a response.[/sub]

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What’s that mean? You lost me after “et.”

I got screwed yet again today. I got a call from the girl who’s assistant director of this program where volunteers work with middle school students to do a science project. We go in groups of six or seven to a middle school and partner up with the children, who get to choose what project they do. One of the volunteers oversees the group. I was applying for that position. The girl, who I know, told me that I hadn’t been accepted for the position.

That’s some salt in the wound right there, but the fact that this bitch who KNOWS me gave me a read-from-the-sheet rejection speech is just excessive.

I also slept through both lunch and dinner because I stayed up all night studying for that goddamned joke of a test.

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Why can’t the makeup replace a grade for people who already took all 4? That’s just dumb.
Better question: why in the world are you taking a makeup test for a test that you don’t need to make up??

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Gee, can’t imagine why someone wouldn’t want you working with kids.

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That’s a pretty stupid system. Reminds me of the easiest class I ever took.

The semester was divided into four units. After each unit, we could take anywhere up to three tests on that unit, and only our highest score counted. THEN, at the end of the semester, there were up to two MORE tests available for each unit we could take to bump up any low scores we still had. So, for each unit, we could take the best of FIVE scores. And these weren’t killer tests, either. They were 10-question quizzes, really, right out of the lecture notes.

Then, finally (no pun intended), for the final, the teacher took test A or B from each unit and stapled them together. Insanely easy.

And people still managed to fail.

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I was hoping that, considering that it covers 11 of the 13 chapters we covered this semester, that it would be something like a micro-final and thus be good practice. With orgo, you take every chance for improvement you get.

I think it was a response to the crappy performance on the fourth exam, so the prof felt it necessary to dumb it down. All the same, this is fucking ridiculous. I had more difficulty writing reference cards from the book. The test was 55 minutes and started at 9:35. I was done at 10:10.

Nevertheless, the class average for the exams and our individual averages were posted today. The average was 223, and I got a 247. Hopefully this means I’ll get an A-, but that’s all contingent on the final now.

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What, is it my cussing?

My ire was not raised by being rejected for the position so much as this bitch who I know was reading to me from a script. It’s not even that she was bogged down either, because there were 8 or 9 applicants for 3 positions. That doesn’t leave very many people to call. I would have laughed at her if she would have said “I regret to tell you” rather than “I’m sorry to tell you.”