Type your thoughts (Part 1)

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#12841

So I’m leading a discussion today in my graduate class that is based upon prejudice and stress and have 4 others in my group. It was brought up to us on short notice that we were doing this so we haven’t had much time to prepare, 2 days, so I took the initiative to email everyone about the strat of the whole thing, giving suggestions and ideas for how we should move forward but asked for their help and suggestions. I have received 0 responses. I know people are busy and everything, but essentially in 2 hours I have to lead a discussion completely blind to what the hell the others are even wanting to do. I’m super stressed out by the lack of them even giving a shit.

Just thought I would post it here and get shit off my chest before going in there and attempting not too look completely fucking unprepared. Got to love unmotivated undergraduates who just want to get a fucking grade and move on. I was hoping this would be a good way to get into deeper discussions of the subject but my guess it the average response will be “Prejudice is bad…”

Oh well hope everyone else’s day is going well :thumbup:

#12842

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Shit. Balls. :open_mouth:

#12843

Oh boy, I’ve been in groups like this. In the end, I decided to not let them bring me down and would just do the whole thing myself. Threw it all together and then did it all myself and I’m not too bad at ad-libbing to make it sound intelligent…a few times without including the partners at all. The professor would usually ask me why I did it all and I’d explain they were useless. Other times when I HAD to let them do stuff, I just typed something up and told them to read it. Maybe that’s why I’m better on my own.

#12844

Group projects always suck for that exact reason. People have no interest in the project or the collaboration but they keep being insisted upon because someone must have decided at some point that they prepare you for career life. Which they don’t.

#12845

Well it went better than expected. It felt a bit disjointed at first because we hadn’t really talked about anything, but in the end I think it went really well. Still not sure why people didn’t at least email me something back, even if it was just “looks good” or whatever. Oh well you can lead a horse to water :laughing:

Luckily I got it out of the way and don’t have to worry about it for the rest of the year which is nice. Now just exams and 1 paper and I will officially be done with my Psych degree :thumbup:

And yeah, group projects seem to have 1 or 2 people who do all the work and everyone else just benefits. But thats the way of the “real” world isn’t it? :wink:

#12846

:open_mouth: I’m sure the cop punched his face off, nothing more to see here :wink: :laughing:

#12847

Seriously. I see most group projects as not much more than professors being lazy and passing it off with the bullshit excuse that it’s “preparing you for ‘real life’, where you don’t get to chose who you work with”. Except for the fact that (for better or worse) higher education costs a lot of fucking money and a lot of times your grades can have a big impact on your future. So you pay a shit ton of money for a service that is poorly rendered and the outcome is often completely out of your control, but rather in the control of some fucking jackasses who just don’t give a shit. Granted, that last part is also true in the professional world, but the big difference is that you are getting paid so you put up with it. It’s part of your job. But in school you actually pay to get fucked in the ass.

#12848

We pay the government with pretty much the same results, so those lessons are essentially carried over intact. :frowning:

#12849

:frowning:

#12850

Quite true. All they ever did was encourage me to not work in groups because they’re inefficient and I couldn’t get the results I needed from them…it usually had the exact opposite effect it was supposed to. It wasn’t until I got into a real job and worked with other people who actually care about the work that I realized that groups can be useful.

Nope. I specifically ask that my tax dollars be used to pay for a nice presidential banquet…I make sure they at least they go to buy someone some nice food. This makes me pleased.

#12851

We really only have like four threads going here at OKP. And it makes sense, since there aren’t that many of us using the Pa at any given moment.

But we got like, Type your Thoughts, Type your Phish Thoughts, What are you Listening to, News that we don’t feel like making a new thread over, and then like, what. Good Morning OKP, that’s what.

I used to feel like we didn’t stretch out enough, but then it’s like, shit.

#12852

What about the presidential election thread??? :eh: :eh:

And the iPad blending thread??? :eh:

Also, some of the best threads don’t get posted in very often… and require a special password. :shifty:

#12853

CONFESSION:

I just dropped a deuce in the bathroom down the hall. Not just any deuce, but a whopper of a deuce. One of those that you feel pride in. One that you don’t want to flush. In fact, one that was so fucking impressive that I actually waddled into the next stall to wipe so as to not obscure such a thing of beauty with dirty TP. Yes, I left it there, undisturbed. In all its glory. For all to admire. It was really hard to not take a picture of it, but I felt that was crossing some kind of line. Like, some things are just better left as urban legend, you know? Also the whole ‘evidence’ thing. Or like, if I forgot about it and then Lisa was playing around with my phone and stumbles across a picture of a giant turd. Awkward.

#12854

^After working in a nursing home for 10 years and seeing some freakishly large shits I’d venture to say you’re overestimating your deuce. I’d need a pic to be sure.

JUST KIDDING PLEASE DONT TAKE A PIC OF THE CRAP EVER.

Though I’ve been tempted because no one could believe the size of these freakish things.

#12855

Please excuse typos and whatnot for this post cause I’m on my phone bc our Internet has finally shit the bed it seems

So it seems that the my buddy’s gf I was having issues with may be suicidal, he has been breaking off his ties with her for about a week now and what I have feared would happen for months seemed to be going on…I came home last night at 3 am to find my buddies sitting on the porch talking about her and stuff and I asked him if he thought she was suicidal and and he just kinda looked at me in a way to say yes, then I just flat out asked if she told him she was thinking about killing herself, and he said she did…my first reaction was why the fuck did you leave her alone? I have never really known anyone that has told me they were thinking about it and felt like it wouldn’t be surprising at all if it happened, this is how I feel about this girls situation

I read something a few days ago that said if you are feeling suicidal call 911, I don’t know if this is supposed to be helpful if you know somebody ELSE that is that far gone, but apparently it doesn’t…my buddy did not take to the idea very well, but eventually he did call 911 because we convinced him, but he didn’t do it in front of us he went outside…and apparently they put him in touch with the suicide hotline and they told him to wait until her scheduled counseling appt on tues…this doesn’t make much sense to me, you tell these people someone you know could very end their own life and they tell you (a 20 year old kid) to look after her until then? This girl needs help, and her cause of pain is him, and all he’s doing by being with her right now is confusing her even more, sending the wrong message…it’s really hard for me to watch him handle this with his typical laisezz faire attitude, he seems to be having as much trouble thinking rationally as she is…can anyone confirm or deny that that’s a normal response to reporting someone as suicidal?

There’s also a chance she’s just telling him this to make him feel bad enough not to break up with him, which is equally as fucked up as the other, but sadly knowing her, this is the most realistic answer to us…but I’m willing to take any chances on that being the case, which is why I was so adamant about doing something about it, te way I see it, there is no winning in not doing anything about it until tues, she’s going to severely depressed until then with no professional help without taking action, or she’s going to be put into care of somebody/someplace that can watch her and make sure she doesn’t hurt herself

#12856

Man I was really hoping the monster deuce would get more attention before somebody came all up in here with some ‘real’ thoughts.

#12857

I think you gave it plenty of attention.

#12858

Sorry aboutte timing of my best friends gf talking about killing herself

I would delete the post but I can’t remember how, but I’ve done all one can do in my position and he thinks she’s going to be ok, I guess I just have to take his word for it

#12859

I actually think this is false. During my masters program we had tons of group projects and as much as a pain as they sometimes were the purpose is to help you learn how to work with people collaboratively, respectfully and effective. We had to put together unit projects where everything had to link together, so we would meet with our groups and I learned a lot from bouncing ideas off people and telling them nicely when they were making no sense (the trick is to make them think like they thought of the idea somehow). You can also figure out the right questions to get your answers too. So there ya go, there is a deeper reason for group projects. just like in school we are just trying to get kids to use their brains and think for themselves. the rest is just details.

#12860

So you decided taking a picture was crossing the line, but left your huge poop unflushed in a public toilet? That is disturbingly hilarious. You should have put a velvet rope across the stall door so people could only look, but not enter, so as to not disturb the shit in any way.