A Day of Highs and Lows

Today was the last day of our class (we just have presentations tomorrow), and I swear it was just about the goofiest day on record. If something crazy happened today, it happened to me. I was infuriated, with the full weight of that word, when Gelas required me to make petty edits to our group project after he’d completely failed in his responsibility to give feedback throughout the past 2 weeks. After he magically came up with new requirements that he didn’t communicate to anyone, and after he announced to a half full classroom that the paper was due that afternoon by 2pm (while the other half of us were working in the biology lab because that was the only place with outlets to connect our computers), THEN he insisted on reviewing the paper for feedback. He made valueless comments about things like moving the title under the picture on our cover page. I felt almost angry enough to be violent, but my IU professor commented that I showed incredible restraint.

Also today, I walked into the toilet in the bio building and thought about how sick I am of rolling up my pants every time I enter the soaked bathroom, but then was impressed at what an amazing squat-pee-er I’ve become since 2008. Asia helped a lot with acquiring that skill. Then I dropped my phone in the toilet, of course immediately after I’d peed. Later I cut my hand on barbed wire. The zipper on my backpack broke. My group spent the morning claiming that I’d said I would do the entire PowerPoint presentation on my own, which I most certainly did NOT DO. In fact, I’d asked them on Monday whether I should start working on it OR if they wanted to learn how to use PowerPoint, and the all said they wanted to learn that because it would be a good skill to learn. So we agreed we would finish the paper yesterday (didn’t happen) and spend all day today casually learning how to use PowerPoint together (didn’t happen).

It was a day of highs and lows, but amazingly I felt like a million bucks at the end of the day after I reached the point where nothing else could faze me. I was in a great, happy mood. Just thrilled to be done with the project and incredibly excited about the program drawing to a close. Just a few more days until I get to see family and friends!