the light

it's almost here...the end of my first semester of doctorate school....on monday i had two group presentations....one class should have ended and the other one only has a homework and final left.

in my first class our group presentations were 10 minutes each....i think there were 10 groups....it was a waste of everyone's time...the projects, the presentations, everything....the professor promptly announced at the end of the presentations that they would not hurt or improve our grades....that's right, they won't really count! what the hell!?!! each group spent alot of time running statistics, writing summaries, putting together information....for it not to count! i left the class a little disappointed and wishing that i didn't have to go back.

in my second class, we did our final project presentation....this is the one that i have been working on all semester...the group that had the crazy member early on....anyway, we had been working for the last two weeks to finalize our paper and powerpoint....one group member was less than on top of her stuff....it was pretty crappy of her to not put more energy into the final project....and when she finally did her part, she didn't do what the rest of us did and was way off in the presentation....overall though, the presentation went well....we presented our stuff and then got the third degree from the panel of VP's that our professor invited to come.....we survived the third degree and then sat through the other group....

at the end of class, our professor announces that he had some feedback for both groups....he wanted to let us all know that he had expected to see three things in our presentations but didn't....and that he hoped they were in our papers....if they weren't in our papers, we would need to put it in and get the papers to him by sunday at noon....that's right, he basically said our papers probably sucked and we needed to fix it....okay, maybe that is a little extreme....but myself and one of my group members made faces at each other as he announced this extra work...the class was supposed to be over monday.....now we have more work to do....

i am a little crazy about this....i just want to be done....i just want to put the semester behind me, be done with statistics, be done with group projects.....today is wednesday....i have finished my "extra" work for the group project....good thing....i have started my last homework for stats, though still have enough to do....and still need to study for the final....the 40 question, cumlative final....

i am looking for the light....hoping i will see it soon.