Today really sucks for me. The stars are out of allignment, planets must have collided and obliterated each other, dung beetles must have eaten each other’s shit and terrorists bombed their own members. Everything appeared to have negative effects around me.
The funny thing is I woke up feeling it was going to be a good day. My group was extremely prepared for our presentation. We were the first group to present. Our tutor even said he’ll be lenient to us. We put in so much effort for this project. After the presentation was over, we all felt confident that we would score at least an 8 or 8.5 out of 10. The teacher then showed us our marks. That asian bloke gave us a score of 6. -.-| I mean seriously, we all got a shock. Mainly because we put in so much effort for this presentation. Moreover the entire presentation went pretty well and class discussion and participation was generally quite active.
He said he liked our history and key events section. He gave us 2/4.
He said we didnt really answer our 2nd question. He gave us 1.5/4.
He said our discussion went really well. He gave us 1.5/2.
This is the project i can honestly say I put in the most effort ever. And I got the lowest score ever for a presentation. Imagine the irony and how i felt after we got our score. We argued (tried to reason out) with our tutor for half an hour after class and the arguements that he put up to justify himself were just ridiculous. And the best part of it all: He said he would be very lenient for our group. I really want to see what the other groups get. They would have to work their damn asses to the 18th level of hell just to pass this presentation.
The next blow that whacked me like a sumo wrestler sitting on a toilet bowl happened during econs tutorial class. I got back the past 3 weeks of homework that i’ve diligently completed and handed up only to find out that the 3 pieces of homework got a score of 1/10, 2/10 & 3/10 respectively. The homework is randomly marked by our fellow student classmates. I definitely didn’t deserve those marks. The students who marked my homework must have been really selfish ego-centred pricks that want everyone else in the class to fail except themselves. Why are the students so vicious? The worst part is there was nothing i could do to address that issue. I went to ask the tutor whether he looked through the homework to see whether the justification of marks was substantiated, and he simply said no. I could have given all the past homework i marked a zero score and it would simply be recorded as a zero. No questions asked. Is this a stupid system or what?
I also just found out that a friend of mine failed the same course twice in a row. Sigh. Everything is just going wrong. Maybe it’s because I’ve stopped going to church for quite a long time now. I missed church due to work commitments and pure laziness. I feel like crap now.
Quote of the day from the tutor:" Its not about you. It’s not about you feeling whether your mark justified your effort. It’s about what I thought your presentation was worth. Do not talk to me about leniency. I was very lenient already. The world is never fair. You just have to accept it."
Fucking asian wanker.
What a great tutor eh?
