Today I just feel defeated by school. Yesterday I spent ALL day working on my senior project, trying to get usable results for my poster. As is the usual, it didn't work out as I had planned. I was going to go work on it today, but after I was on the bus to go to the lab, I realized that I had accidentally left my samples sitting on my counter. Since the bus service doesn't run as frequently on the weekends it takes a long time to get where you're going. Thus I gave up working on it today and will have to work on it all day Monday. Luckily, one class is already canceled and I don't feel that bad about skipping my other one.
This whole experience makes me glad that I decided against grad school. I like doing research, but it's very slow and frustrating for the most part. Senior project would go a lot more smoothly if a) the faculty involved made sure the materials were in place before we started, and b) we had fewer classes to allow us the flexibility to work on our projects. I understand the point of the project is "real world design/research experience", but at the same time it's causing undue stress (not only on me, but on my classmates as well).
I'm optimistic that I'll get results...eventually. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to correspond with the imposed timetable that I have. At least I'll have everything I need at the beginning of Spring quarter and I can devote time to getting results instead of just prepping everything.
I'm just so frustrated, with no outlet and no end to frustration in sight. Looks like my upper lip will never stop twitching. All of my frustration with my senior project is compounded by the fact that I have 2 presentations in the next week (both are with a group), a group paper, a group lab report, homework times three, and the poster session for my project. I hate how everything piles up right at the end of the quarter.
Would you like some cheese with that whine? Why yes, I would.
:-(
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I'm increasingly floored by the amount of "group work" done in college. I'm trying to recall if I had that many occasions in which I had to rely on others for my own measure of success. Sometimes, I think it's counter-productive for college instructors to assign group projects. I'm wondering what it really proves.
This quarter I've had more group work assigned than previously. In engineering it makes sense that we have group projects--the idea being that when we get into industry, engineers end up being part of a team designing a product/process/etc. I don't mind group work now nearly as much as I did in high school.
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