I enjoy going to school. I enjoy studying. I enjoy going to school. I enjoy studying. I enjoy going to school. I enjoy studying…
Ok, I don’t. I hate to waste time, and studying subjects that have little, to no relationship with my career makes me mad. Way mad. But I don’t have a choice, so I “try” to like it. Even though, I tend to complain too much about the way things develop. I guess it’s just that I hate lazy people with the idea “you’re the smart guy, so you do all the job”. I really, REALLY, FUCKIN’!!! hate it.
It happened (a few times but happened) during my first semester. It happened again during the second semester, a lot of times. Now, during the summer classes, it’s happening again. Thanks god, there were only a few activities that need to team up, and I worked with a friend, who gets the job done as it should be.
But my little disgrace, happened today. The teacher “explained” the definition of a new topic, and went directly to problems to work out. No further explanations, no examples, nothing. To get things worse, she told us that we had to work in teams. She looked at a friend and me, and then scanned the classroom.
We both know what crossed her mind. “Yeah, these two. Each one with the idiots over there. Let’s see if they can help”. It was painful. We changed places (in a bad mood) and started to solve the 14-problem sheet. It wasn’t long after I had to stop to explain “Yes, if you derive displacement, you’ll get the formula for speed, in terms of time”. That was both painful and sad. It’s basic, I mean, it’s not like I’m trying to explain the theory of relativity. Even if I did, there’s an easy, “simplified” version.
I thought it couldn’t be worse, until a guy asked who had the top average. The teacher answered she wasn’t sure if it was my friend or me, but that it was one of us. My “team” decided then, that it was a good idea to take turns to write what I was saying and solving.
At the end, I solved about everything we did, which was around half of the problems. I truly hate team working when I’m forced to work with mediocre people. It only slows down the tasks, it requires more concentration and effort, and in this cases, it truly requires an extreme dosage of patience.
I would love to work again with a couple of friends from Engineering. It’s painful to work with the “Lic’s.”. No racism intended, but at least in ITESM, it’s made way obvious which “types” get the job done… and the ones who only beat around the bushes.
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That was a nice post. Gratz.