<p>I’m in college and I must say I hate school. I’ve always hated school when I was growing up, and I never really wanted to go to college immediately after high school, but my family forced me. Anyway, I’m at my 2nd university and I’ve had my ups and downs. I took 15hrs this semester and that was one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in my 2.5yrs of school. I dropped a 3hr course and I still have no free time to do anything but study. School is very stressful. If I decide to try and rest for a few hours, I end up falling behind. I even have to plan my sleep times to get work done and study more. At one point at the beginning of the month I had to take 19 tests/quizzes in just under 2wks, no lie. it was almost 2 or 3 tests per day.</p>
<p>When I started the semester, I was doing so well, but around midterms, my grades started dropping. I was acing Japanese and trig, now I’m barely passing Jap and I might as well say I failed trig for the 2nd time (went 10-12 grade without a math teacher and that really hurt me a lot.)</p>
<p>Anyway, recently I was trying to devote as much time as possible to get my Trig work done so hopefully the teacher would give me a C and I wouldn’t have to pay for the class a 3rd time. Our Japanese teacher decided to give us a group assignment for our final project. My luck got even worse because almost all my group members were lazy. NO MATTER WHAT, when I have a group assignment to do, I give it high priority over all other work because it’s not just my grade that’s at risk. So, I finished my part of the assignment a week in advance and even showed my partners my work and designs for the cards we had to make. The week the assignment was due, non of them were finished and I asked them why. They told me that the racist white guy in our group said he was going to do all the work (so I guess that made them feel they had to do nothing).I did a pretty nifty card design and showed the white guy all the cards I did etc. He looked at my work in disgust and told me he didn;t want to use my work because it had no border around the cards. Just email him all of our work, he’ll do his own designs and take it to kinkos and print it off. so…its 2 days before the assignment is due and no one has their work but me. The white guy wanted to be group leader but he skipped our class to goto english (knowing we had an assignment due). I took it upon myself to make them crack down because it was getting crazy (the work is almost due and we have nothing). What really ****ed me off is that when I saw the status of our project, I put my trig work on hold for the week to help and I really couldn’t afford to do that AT ALL.</p>
<p>I told everyone 2 give me 2 forms of contact, email and phone. only 1 person listened and followed directions. everyone else just gave emails. 1 girl suggested we meet in the library the next day to work. I told her that was fine by me, but I’d be 30min late because I’d still be in class. I gave them all my number and told them to txt me the venue if they aren’t in the lobby by the time I get there. the next day comes, 5pm. only 3/6 people showed up. we sat down 30min waiting for everyone else before I said screw it, let’s just get started. while we were headed towards the elevator, the white guy and another girl in my group were sitting in a study room by themselves trying to do all the work.neither one text or emailed us the venue and they both had my number/email, as well as the other girl who was with me. As a matter of fact, as I stated before they had EVERYONE’S email and were even sitting on computers at the time. I get there and show the white guy my card design. Everyone looked at it and was like wow that looks nice. The white guy looked at it and said “Oh how long did it take for you to do that.” Then he tried to show me his card design that he was going to use. IT WAS SOOOOOO PLAIN!</p>
<p>Now the guy starts talking out the side of his neck. he says aloud “man this program runs so slow”. I asked him what program he was using for his image editing? he tells me “You wouldn’t know about it, it costs thousands of dollars to replace”. this *<strong><em>ed me off so bad. I’ve been doing graphic design for 6yrs and have used multiple programs. I even did much of the designing for my 1st university’s frats and school functions. I asked him was he using photoshop. He told me “No you probably never heard of it, it’s called Corel”. When I told him I knew what it was he gave me that dirty stink-eye look like he really wanted to say something. He was so *</em></strong>ed that dude read over my work and tried to talk down on me because I used an American period on my sentences rather than a japanese one. He said “uhh hey yea none of your sentences ended correctly”. I was a bit puzzled because I had the teacher check it and I made corrections. I literally had to snap on this dude. U HAD MY WORK A WHOLE WEEK, NOBODY ELSE EVEN SUBMITTED ANYTHING OR JUST COPIED FROM GOOGLE,AND YOU WANNA SWEAT ME OVER A PERIOD! WHY WOULD YOU WAIT UNTIL THE NIGHT BEFORE TO EVEN READ OVER SOMEONE’S WORK"…It’s a damn period dude, if it’s that crucial, draw it in with a damn pencil.</p>
<p>I look around, it’s ~7pm the night before. and the group is still missing stuff. then the white guy murmured under his breath “wow you finally did one right”. I really wanted to hit this dude, but I know with today’s society they woulda locked me up without question. He left to use the bathroom and I asked all my group members if I was the only 1 who knew he was talking down. They didn’t care because he promised to finish all their work for them, so they could care less. It’s 8pm and 1 of our final group members showed up and didn’t have any work. I had to pick up his slack. the white guy came back and said that he was going to kinko’s to use his “steep fedex discount” to get the cards done. he wanted everyone to just email him all the work and he was going to go find the 50+images himself overnight, and goto kinkos and have them printed before class at 11am in the morning. </p>
<p>We needed a master list of all of the sentences we used on the cards. I already mass emailed each group member everyone’s work. the white guy didn’t want to email his. when I told him that I needed the sentences for the master list, he looked at me like he wouldn’t trust me with a penny lol.He finally gave in and said that he would email me his sentences when i got home. I stayed up until 2am waiting for his email…Nothing…he wouldn’t even respond to txts. (If you haven;t caught on yet, he’s trying to sabotage my work effort to make it seem like I did nothing and he did it all, so he could try to claim all credit). Dude emailed me his stuff at 7am the day it was due and told me "don’t read over mine, I know it’s right already. (DUDE I COULD CARE LESS). that’s 4hrs before class. I typed up the entire thing and found out we were missing 5 or 6 cards/sentences. No one knew who was supposed to do what.I said screw it, printed out my cards with my design, and printed up the master list with all their last minute google copy and paste jobs on it.I was running late by ~3minutes. guess who called??? The white guy. Wow so that means he had my number all along and didn’t text or respond on purpose…</p>
<p>I emailed the teacher the night before and told her the situation and told her that I refused to present with them. I do not work with racists and I do not sign my name off on anything half done; that has never been my style. I get to class and drop off the master list and one of my other group members told me that we had no images. We were the only group without them (thats 50+ images). they were sitting there looking so dumb because they let this guy fool them into thinking that he was Captain Save-A-Grade and didn’t have the full presentation. If I would’ve known this in advance, I coulda got a new group to work with and caught up on my trig.</p>
<p>Now today is wednesday. I have a test this afternoon to do and 8 trig assignments to do by midnight. then I have to be back up thursday morning and drive an hour to take my trig final which I’ve had no time to study for. To make matters worse it’s a comprehensive exam. that means it covers all the work we did this year. so basically, I’m going to be up until thursday afternoon and I’ve already been working since monday. (Nobody needs sleep anymore right??). on top of that, I have a 47 page study guide to review for my exam in another class.</p>
<p>What I noticed is that every racist situation I’ve been in at school has only been with the white guys. the girls are no problem at all. 1 day I sat next to a white guy in my lecture class. He leaned the other way and kept sighing all class long like I invaded his personal space or something. I hate college man…It’s just stress on top of stress, no time for fun (at least for me), very minimal socializing, and no matter how much I study I still don’t come out with the grades I want. there’s just not enough time. If I only took 1or 2 classes a semester I would do great but my financial aid won’t cover part-time students. I even need to take ~9hrs just to take 1 class over in summer school.</p>
<p>Another thing that really ****es me off is that I know my workload could be minimized if I formed a study group. I asked on numerous occasions and everyone pulled out their best lie just to say no. Now I’m passing in some of those classes and they are failing. You mention study and they don’t want to hear it, but they think you will help them cheat on an exam. If we all got together to study, the class would be a breeze and we could all have free time to chill. In trig, there are at least 6 people in my online course who go to my university. i know that I need help, so I asked everyone who went to my school if they wanted to form a study group. The only one who replied is a girl who lives in the next city, who I can;t meet because I have no car and whenever I’m free she has to work. None of my classmates at my university even responded. I still goto math tutoring and still fail smh…</p>