Today I had a good learning experience in class involving 3 classmates. 2 of them I worked with earlier this semester on presentations and 1 I became friends with last semester in my web servers class. The 2 I speak of enjoyed my work and the things I brought to the presentation, so I felt I made an impact and earned acceptance for future presentations. Sadly, this wasn't the case.
Before today's presentation with another group of people I went to the lab the submit the powerpoint to the teacher electronically. I remembered that I had to print out a slides page for the professor and could not for the life of me remember how to do it. Seeing the other 2 (I will keep calling them that BTW) I said "Hey, can you tell me how to print off the slides page?" The 2 just looked at me and looked the other way instantly. I thought it weird at the time, but I could already tell what was going on. Seeing how we weren't working together this time it was like a every group for themselves attitude. Whatever the case may be, on to the next situation.
Prof. said we had to pick our own groups for the next presentation. I went to the 2 and asked if they wanted to group up? I just got a look and a ummmm from both of them. Seeing where this was going to go I went to the 1 from last semester and asked him. Now, the background with this 1. We became friends and talked through texts here and there last semester and this semester because we are taking similar courses, so somewhat of a friendship we had going. His reply was I have some people already, the 2 went to him and said we need one more, 1 of the 2 motioned for me to come over to the group. In the time it took me to grab my coat and binder and walk over to them, I was told by the 1 that they were full. I see a trend going on here. I said to him, "you mean in the 4 seconds it took me to walk over here you filled it already? "OK!"
I'm not crying by any means, I assembled a group and we will do fine I'm sure, but the people that were buddy with me, also turned on me. Thats when I seen how this class, or degree program is going for that matter. It is a competition to these people, but it shouldn't be. We aren't competing for a job. We are there to get degrees. These fucking geeks are really concerned with someone doing better than them. Who cares? You want to do well, I get that, everyone wants to do well. But to pull some shit like that makes me think that I should be more like I have always been in my life. Fuck everybody else, worry about me and don't worry about being kind to the next guy. This class is a joke as is, but it just got a lot more interesting.
~Thanks for stopping by~
Luke
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