I need somewhere to vent...and I am sure that this is just the right place. Any fellow college students? I'm currently in my forth year of school for engineering. This has been the semester from hell....
Out of school, I found out this semester that my father has prostrate cancer. I got to sit with him as he had radioactive pellets inserted into his prostrate. Its kind of hard sitting there, holding the hand of your hero, and hearing him whimper in pain as he gets a series of medical procedures that would make the Inquisition blush. His prognosis is pretty good, but its definitely not something you want to ever see someone you care about go through. Its also sucks to now know I got a very good chance of going through the same damn thing at his age, if my smoking doesn't kill me first.
At the same time, my mother somehow seems to have gotten a growth on her tongue. You would think getting a good portion of it cut off that it would stop her from torturing me like a harpy over the phone, but my mom is a trooper. I think she would learn sign language in a week so she could continue to nag me about the lack of kids, lack of a wife, and lack of whatever else pisses her off about me.
My younger brother, who despite not having a job for the last year and a half, managed to move into the apartment next door to me. And it has been a living hell. Since I am not a shithead, I get to be his keeper basically as he can't be bothered to do a damn thing for himself. I have probably lost over $2,000 in the last two months alone dealing with his shit. Thankfully he gets evicted in February, but I still don't hear the end of it from my mother for not allowing him to move in with me. Apparently I am some kind of bastard despite me paying his last two months rent and getting his piece of shit car that barely runs out of a repo lot (idiot left it abandonned at a bar for three days when he couldn't get it running again....oh and the bar is about a 10 minute walk from our apartments, so why is he wasting the gas he can't afford? WAIT A MINUTE!!! WHY IS HE DRINKING IF HE CAN'T AFFORD HIS FUCKING RENT?!?!).
School sucks...sucks hard. Like I said, I am in my forth year. I need five years to get my degree...only I run out of GI Money after four...so I really can't afford the $2,000 I spent on my brother. If interested, I got a whole slew of shithead brother stories...
I took five classes this semester. Cultural Anthropology, that I took for a culture credit towards my degree...only to find out the school does not consider it a culture credit...its a social science credit. Its my only easy class. Materials is at least an interesting class except my professor is so disorganized that we just had our second midterm today (we were supposed to have three by this time). We have to come in on Tuesday to cover two more chapters that will be on the Final...that is Thursday. Monday is supposed to be the last class day of the semester. Fluids is a fun course. I have a 44% exam average going into the final. Basically 2/3rd of the course is failing miserably while the other third is cheating wholesale. The answer key for the homework questions is available online and they are putting them into their calculators. I am really struggling with myself not to do the same damn thing. Circuits class is basically the same, a third of the class is obviously cheating, while the rest are struggling to barely get by. I also have a lab exam in that class tomorrow which involves building circuits on a board with our two TA's, neither of which can speak more than 30 words in English. It should be mountains of fun. I'm taking another class called "Practical Analysis for Engineers". Its basically linear algebra with Matlab programing. Neither of those subjects are taught to us during our academic path so no one in the class has any experience with them...our professor refuses to believe us when we tell him that. He also wrote his own text book that is barely usable. THe book is filled with spelling and grammar issues, nothing is labeled, and often times, the examples in the book are incorrect. The class average going into the final is 52%...not test average or HW average...the average for the course.
Oh, and my internship for the Army requires that I maintain a 3.0 GPA I had a 3.02 going into this semester. So I email the coordinator to inform her that while I won't be failing any classes (I still think I can pull this shit out), I will not have a 3.0 cumulative GPA after this semester. I figured I would be on some probation or something until I get it up. Instead I get an email that basically tells me that I am the only student in the program that cannot maintain a 3.0 and that I better get it up. Here is the thing though...despite the program being set up for engineering students...I am the only one actually getting a degree in the field. The one girl I work with during the summer, she is getting a degree from the University of Manhattan for fucking clothing design (her daddy is a general on the base)...others are communication, political science majors, etc. Its a fucking joke. Oh and I have to start working there the day after Christmas. Yay!
Ahhhh....that felt good. Sorry about the length and the language peppered throughout. Feel free to call me out for being a wanker or whatever form complaining (I mean at least I am getting my education...I could be like my brother I guess). Ciao...
Out of school, I found out this semester that my father has prostrate cancer. I got to sit with him as he had radioactive pellets inserted into his prostrate. Its kind of hard sitting there, holding the hand of your hero, and hearing him whimper in pain as he gets a series of medical procedures that would make the Inquisition blush. His prognosis is pretty good, but its definitely not something you want to ever see someone you care about go through. Its also sucks to now know I got a very good chance of going through the same damn thing at his age, if my smoking doesn't kill me first.
At the same time, my mother somehow seems to have gotten a growth on her tongue. You would think getting a good portion of it cut off that it would stop her from torturing me like a harpy over the phone, but my mom is a trooper. I think she would learn sign language in a week so she could continue to nag me about the lack of kids, lack of a wife, and lack of whatever else pisses her off about me.
My younger brother, who despite not having a job for the last year and a half, managed to move into the apartment next door to me. And it has been a living hell. Since I am not a shithead, I get to be his keeper basically as he can't be bothered to do a damn thing for himself. I have probably lost over $2,000 in the last two months alone dealing with his shit. Thankfully he gets evicted in February, but I still don't hear the end of it from my mother for not allowing him to move in with me. Apparently I am some kind of bastard despite me paying his last two months rent and getting his piece of shit car that barely runs out of a repo lot (idiot left it abandonned at a bar for three days when he couldn't get it running again....oh and the bar is about a 10 minute walk from our apartments, so why is he wasting the gas he can't afford? WAIT A MINUTE!!! WHY IS HE DRINKING IF HE CAN'T AFFORD HIS FUCKING RENT?!?!).
School sucks...sucks hard. Like I said, I am in my forth year. I need five years to get my degree...only I run out of GI Money after four...so I really can't afford the $2,000 I spent on my brother. If interested, I got a whole slew of shithead brother stories...
I took five classes this semester. Cultural Anthropology, that I took for a culture credit towards my degree...only to find out the school does not consider it a culture credit...its a social science credit. Its my only easy class. Materials is at least an interesting class except my professor is so disorganized that we just had our second midterm today (we were supposed to have three by this time). We have to come in on Tuesday to cover two more chapters that will be on the Final...that is Thursday. Monday is supposed to be the last class day of the semester. Fluids is a fun course. I have a 44% exam average going into the final. Basically 2/3rd of the course is failing miserably while the other third is cheating wholesale. The answer key for the homework questions is available online and they are putting them into their calculators. I am really struggling with myself not to do the same damn thing. Circuits class is basically the same, a third of the class is obviously cheating, while the rest are struggling to barely get by. I also have a lab exam in that class tomorrow which involves building circuits on a board with our two TA's, neither of which can speak more than 30 words in English. It should be mountains of fun. I'm taking another class called "Practical Analysis for Engineers". Its basically linear algebra with Matlab programing. Neither of those subjects are taught to us during our academic path so no one in the class has any experience with them...our professor refuses to believe us when we tell him that. He also wrote his own text book that is barely usable. THe book is filled with spelling and grammar issues, nothing is labeled, and often times, the examples in the book are incorrect. The class average going into the final is 52%...not test average or HW average...the average for the course.
Oh, and my internship for the Army requires that I maintain a 3.0 GPA I had a 3.02 going into this semester. So I email the coordinator to inform her that while I won't be failing any classes (I still think I can pull this shit out), I will not have a 3.0 cumulative GPA after this semester. I figured I would be on some probation or something until I get it up. Instead I get an email that basically tells me that I am the only student in the program that cannot maintain a 3.0 and that I better get it up. Here is the thing though...despite the program being set up for engineering students...I am the only one actually getting a degree in the field. The one girl I work with during the summer, she is getting a degree from the University of Manhattan for fucking clothing design (her daddy is a general on the base)...others are communication, political science majors, etc. Its a fucking joke. Oh and I have to start working there the day after Christmas. Yay!
Ahhhh....that felt good. Sorry about the length and the language peppered throughout. Feel free to call me out for being a wanker or whatever form complaining (I mean at least I am getting my education...I could be like my brother I guess). Ciao...
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