#just...why???

[tragicsiblings]

Band of Brothers ▸ 1x01 "Currahee"

[godhatezfangz]

im going to throw up

[seokwoosmole]

Why did MJ have Lord Farquaad hair in this ep???

[greencheekconure27]

Me, a Terry Pratchett fan: Sure, The Watch trailer didn't look good, but maybe they got something right?

Me, 3 minutes into actually watching it: Nope.This is an Abomination.Get me out of this discount Gotham

[noforkingclue]

A friend sent me the trailer for the The Watch TV series.

It’s made me very very sad

[rin-the-shadow]

So today in Assessment (a.k.a. the DSM class) we had a quiz. I haven’t studied incredibly much, but I’m at least confident I know where I can find stuff I need to know/BS enough of a decently good answer to get some points. Plus, it’s the first quiz, and the lowest two scores are dropped. So I take this quiz, get my score, and figure out how I need to change my studying for the rest of semester.

We come in and the professor does his usual variant of stuff that paraphrases to have you made your daily offering to the DSM-V? and does an icebreaker of what you would be if you weren’t your current major and couldn’t pick anything in a closely-related field, but could otherwise pick anything you wanted. Okay, sure, we’ll do some obligatory socializing. Why not? Answer the question, everything’s good. At least I don’t have to feel weird about being the only person not to give her partner as the answer.

And then we get to the quiz. It’s going to be open-book. Sure, that’s fine. I was expecting that. 

But then he decides we are going to complete it in groups of 3-5 people. But we’re not allowed to divide the questions between group members, which every other group does anyway, and both my partners want to write long, word-for-word answers even when paraphrasing the book would suffice. Which I guess isn’t that big a deal....

Except that now I’m taking an exam while everyone else is talking, and they’re all shouting over each other because I guess “use your inside voice” was one of those special different for you rules or something. So I am now operating at a disadvantage compared to some of the others because their loud verbal dialogues are now overwriting my thought process, and I can’t process my answers as completely, but the added verbal dimension also means I am now struggling to actually communicate my answers to my partners.

They’re skeptical of my answers of course, and because I say them more slowly and paraphrased compared to the book, they don’t like most of the word choices I use.

Then people are finishing their exams before us and when they get done, they don’t stop talking, and in fact they start talking louder, so I’m now stuck between writing, and clamping my hands over my ears. And the professor does nothing about this, even when one of my partners gets overloaded and goes into the hall, because screw you who aren’t finished I guess. 

I spend the rest of that class period overloaded and not fully processing anything that anyone says. If it happens again, I’ll probably sneak in some earplugs under my hat, and maybe see if he’ll let me take the test without a group since I can’t do both the social thing and the testing thing at the same time.

But just....what was the point of structuring the exam that way? If it’s already open book, and we aren’t allowed to split the questions? What was the point? Just....why? And for that matter, why weren’t we given any advance warning that this was going to be the format of the test?

[aditanya]

anyway tumblr nbs make me disappointed in myself for being nb