Finished another semester. Submitted my last final yesterday.
Why then am I still thinking about modification of child custody and grandparent visitation rights?
Why am I still creating Access databases with forms and reports in my sleep?
Why am I still more than a tad annoyed about the two group projects in different classes this semester--both that started with four members, ended with two.
In one of the groups I did the usual--played my role as mom and did all the work that didn't get done by the other group member. Got the maximum points.
In the other group, I didn't do that this time. I did my part of the assignment--well, actually more than my part, but I didn't do all of the work that the other member didn't do. So the teacher gave me five points extra for my extra contribution. But because we (the group) didn't do all of the assigned work, my grade was a C. Well, C+ if you add in the extra 5 points.
When I was a senior in high school I had a teacher who had a big blackboard that covered a whole wall in his class and it had only one thing written on it. All year, in big pastel colorful chalk block letters it said only one thing--
LIFE ISN'T FAIR. He said that if he could teach us that, he would have succeeded. I suspect he was tired of hearing kids tell him that "this isn't fair" or "that isn't fair"--but it worked for me. I don't generally fall back into the pit of unfairness when things aren't going the way I want them to.
But I'm telling you, group projects in college are JUST NOT FAIR.
