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#me and my friends and all our barbie dolls

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Listen. I've been a professor, I understand how some students will bitch about anything.

BUT

Nothing infuriates me more than vague directions or ones that leave out "I want it exactly like this, no room for personalization". I know I'm in a totally different educational environment as a many-degreed person in community college, but the thing that's gonna kill me here is 1) busywork/low thought assignments [worksheets?!] and 2) professors who want you to be a clone of them and 3) a few professors who clearly "know best" above anything like disability/neurodivergence concerns.

I try not to be the passive aggressive petty bitch but I had to send this after ANOTHER assignment I had to redo because I didn't do the exact (meaningless) thing the professor wanted. In this case, I didn't use a template that shaded the header a different color than the rest of the table.

This is the second assignment I have completed following the directions but lost points on/had to re-complete due to something not explicitly mentioned in the directions. In this case, nowhere in the directions does it state we need to have header row shading; just that we "add color and shading to improve the readability of your list". I know in my previous attempt I was negligent in having eleven, not ten contacts, but it appears I also received a zero for not shading my header row. My header row design used bolding to allow for differentiation; something that is more accessible for me when looking at a document than distinct shading. For future assignments should I instead just follow exactly your example instead of 'similar to'?

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Excel Part II

It should bring no shock that learning the advanced skills of Excel 365 brings me no joy. After learning more about the capabilities of Excel I remain bored by and nearly hate the program. These tasks are better suited for far different people. Perhaps, say, those who competitively Excel. Or maybe those who are currently celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the program. Today, two days after the actual anniversary of the launch, I find myself happy for those who enjoy the program but remain disinterested. Perhaps if I one day meet some of these experts who go to Excel conventions and conferences I may better understand their passion and find some myself, but unless I meet them somehow in some accident of circumstance, I shall remain baffled that people have deep feelings for this program. My lack of interest in Excel extends to even writing this review, where I am struggling to find ways to fill the word count, but now I suppose I have. At least I don’t have to write these in Excel.

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It feels impossible to learn anything related to the law right now in the US because *gestures to SCOTUS* but also half of what I'm learning AS A PARALEGAL is about getting rid of the old school, overly formal writing and the way we're learning is by muddling through said incomprehensible writing and rewriting it like a human. I feel so dumb half the time but the other half it feels like I'm just being told what not to do at a time when what you're SUPPOSED to do decreasingly matters.

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I'm in a class that is lowkey draining my soul through my keyboard so I'm progressively trying to make my response blurbs more and more unhinged, here's this week's.

"Microsoft Excel is boring. Spreadsheets are boring. While it is a powerful tool, there is a reason I never became an accountant or a numbers person. I’ve done plenty of data entry, and it can be interesting in a rote way; you challenge yourself to see just how much you can enter. Coding is fascinating! I love to encode data and see qualitative data transform into quantitative and then see what comes of it, but those projects are better analyzed in SAS or SPSS. Even R is preferable to me than Excel. There is a reason every show or movie set in an office shows accountants and accounting as deeply inane — because it is, and the software it uses is. I am glad, I suppose, to know more of the capabilities of Excel. I know I am scheduled to learn even more about it, but I cannot imagine a world in which Microsoft Excel will ever be on my list of frequently used applications. If I had to choose between only being able to use 3.5” floppy discs or Microsoft Excel, I would choose those tiny plastic goldfish memory discs in a heartbeat."