I hate Microsoft word.

[katster]

I was writing my final report in word. I was doing pretty good. Had fifteen pages, was cruising towards *done* and...well...I hate word. Here's what happened.

Since this is a final report, it's dependent on a lot of other things I was doing. They're all saved with the class number in front, so I can find them easily. Since I'm getting close to the end, I decide, well, I don't need a couple of the other documents open anymore. I went to close them.
I hit the wrong button [The big red X in word, not the little X to close the document.) I compounded my error when it asked 'Would you like to save 208 Final Report', I thought it was asking about a different document (I had just been tinkering and was attempting to close '208 Progress Report') and hit no before I realized which document it was asking me about.

So three or four hours of work gone because I was an idiot.

Did I mention it's due tomorrow?

Will somebody please shoot me now and put me out of my misery?

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Re: "Will somebody please shoot me now and put me out of my misery?"

[katster.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the laugh.

The problem is, the schoolwork is, unfortunately, a way I define myself, and so right now it looks a lot like the end of the world. I know on an intellectual level it isn't, but I don't really feel up to making the distinction right now. :P

-kat

Re: "Will somebody please shoot me now and put me out of my misery?"

[joshbrown.livejournal.com]

Sorry about to hear that. Your work is in no way a reflection of who you are or what your capable of. And again, it's something I know about - the reason I don't have a university degree is that I failed calculus too many times and finally got fed up and dropped out. And it wasn't that I didn't understand the mathematics, it was that I don't do well on tests and don't do rote memorization very well. And that was what was required of me to pass that course.
And then I had the professor for database management) who told a friend of mine that there was no connection between any of the following:
1) What the professor said during the lecture
2) What the student understood from the lecture
3) What was asked on the test
4) What the student answered on the test
5) What the correct answer was for the question on the test
6) What the student's grade was on the test
So, I learned that grades and tests don't reflect on you at all, that they only reflect what the professor wants to hear.
And it's important to internalize this. The world of acadamia is NOT student-friendly and you should never think that grades say anything about you (other than that you are smart, which we know already)
And the most important thing to remember is that regardless of your grades, WE WILL LIKE YOU! Okay, it may not seem like much that people who you may never will meet face to face say this, but it's important that you know it.
So, CHEER UP ALREADY!