"To be nobody but yourself --in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you everybody else-- means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
- e.e. cummings
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Last week was deceptively bad.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that today in my senior seminar --let me repeat that for emphasis: today in my senior seminar-- I had to "count-off" so I could be placed into a group, then given the following directions: "I want each group to take three sheets of construction paper and a goodie bag and build a boat. You have five minutes." I'm not fucking kidding. The students of CMN901 were told to build a boat from paper, pipecleaners, colored "bendy" straws, cotton balls, wooden craft sticks, a paper clip, and Elmer's glue....
After our "project" was finished, the lecturer wrote sample questions on the board (Who was the leader? Did you run into problems? How did each person contribute?) and asked everyone for feedback. She wasn't ready for me. Now, I was tactful and polite, but I was also frank - something I don't think she was very used to. When she said that the exercise was "a micocosm of the real workplace," however, I had to bite my tongue so I wouldn't laugh (and thereby get myself blacklisted).
- e.e. cummings
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Last week was deceptively bad.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that today in my senior seminar --let me repeat that for emphasis: today in my senior seminar-- I had to "count-off" so I could be placed into a group, then given the following directions: "I want each group to take three sheets of construction paper and a goodie bag and build a boat. You have five minutes." I'm not fucking kidding. The students of CMN901 were told to build a boat from paper, pipecleaners, colored "bendy" straws, cotton balls, wooden craft sticks, a paper clip, and Elmer's glue....
After our "project" was finished, the lecturer wrote sample questions on the board (Who was the leader? Did you run into problems? How did each person contribute?) and asked everyone for feedback. She wasn't ready for me. Now, I was tactful and polite, but I was also frank - something I don't think she was very used to. When she said that the exercise was "a micocosm of the real workplace," however, I had to bite my tongue so I wouldn't laugh (and thereby get myself blacklisted).
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velocity:
I think my own personal Hell would consist of nothing but mayonnaise and group projects.
velocity:
You think I want to go there?? Why do you think I'm not currently out setting people on fire when they stand in the middle of the grocery store aisle like they fucking own it?? Fear of Hell is a powerful de-motivator.