What's making you tear your hair out today?

orthodoc · 04-09-2013, 06:36 PM

... even if your hair is only 1/2" long at the most and fits like a smooth, possibly cute cap in a color you've never had in your life ...

But I digress. What's making me want to tear my hair out, if I can just get a grip on it, is a term paper on night shifts and hormones and breast cancer that refuses to come together because of the guidelines laid down by the prof (also the fact that I had to change topics yesterday and it's due Friday). The prof gave me a topic that turned out not to be doable within his guidelines. He acknowledged that yesterday but there's no extension.

Secondly, and much worse, is an impending midterm exam in an absolutely evil course, Social & Behavioral Theory. In theory, good. In practice, the prof is using exams from a previous prof but not reading them ahead of time to check whether they correspond to the material she's put up online (it's an online course). They don't. S&BT has no practical use, being acknowledged by its promoters as being effective 18% of the time. Gee, if I were correct in my diagnoses & treatment 18% of the time, I'd lose my license. But this stuff is apparently a success at 18% meaningful or even relevant interventions.

Good thing I can't get a grip on my little military 'do. Never mind. I'll see if I can pull off a miracle, exercise that baffling-with-bullshit muscle that firms up out of sheer desperation.

ZenGum · 04-09-2013, 06:49 PM

Well, for S&BT, every student will have the same crap, so your mark will fall about middle. No major worries there.

The other one is harder. Do the best you can, hand it in, hope.

orthodoc · 04-09-2013, 07:00 PM

My mark can't fall around the mean/median/middle.

There's a complication ... the Occ Med residents have an automatic admission to the MPH program, and most of the profs resent that. Our medical faculty ask us to be sure to get a 4.0, or if necessary maybe one B in the middle of it all ... so as to justify the automatic admission. A C is NOT acceptable.

I will give it the big push this week, but I have another, more important midterm next Tuesday in Occ Health so I can't push so hard that I get sick. I have to be able to work this weekend. It's so frustrating - since chemo, anytime I push hard, whether physically or in sleep terms, I get sick for about two weeks. I understand why but it's frustrating.

footfootfoot · 04-09-2013, 07:44 PM

Holy Christmas

IamSam · 04-09-2013, 08:24 PM

Any chance of tracking down someone who took that S&BT course from the prof who wrote the test? Maybe you could pick their brain about what material is covered on the exam.

Sounds to me like you should go pull out the profs' hair instead of your own. Sorry to read what a difficult week you have in front of you.

Dude111 · 02-17-2019, 10:33 PM

This idiots ringtone,GOD IS IT AWEFUL!!!!! (Heard it earlier while @ a store)

http://web.archive.org/web/200201060...g-ringtone.mp3

LOCAL MEDIA PLAYER NEEDED TO LISTEN

I WANTED TO SHOVE THE THING UP HIS ASS!!!!!

xoxoxoBruce · 02-17-2019, 11:59 PM

No media player stuff.

Gravdigr · 02-18-2019, 10:31 AM

Join the 21st century dude, sheesh.

04-09-2013, 06:36 PM	#1
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	What's making you tear your hair out today? ... even if your hair is only 1/2" long at the most and fits like a smooth, possibly cute cap in a color you've never had in your life ... But I digress. What's making me want to tear my hair out, if I can just get a grip on it, is a term paper on night shifts and hormones and breast cancer that refuses to come together because of the guidelines laid down by the prof (also the fact that I had to change topics yesterday and it's due Friday). The prof gave me a topic that turned out not to be doable within his guidelines. He acknowledged that yesterday but there's no extension. Secondly, and much worse, is an impending midterm exam in an absolutely evil course, Social & Behavioral Theory. In theory, good. In practice, the prof is using exams from a previous prof but not reading them ahead of time to check whether they correspond to the material she's put up online (it's an online course). They don't. S&BT has no practical use, being acknowledged by its promoters as being effective 18% of the time. Gee, if I were correct in my diagnoses & treatment 18% of the time, I'd lose my license. But this stuff is apparently a success at 18% meaningful or even relevant interventions. Good thing I can't get a grip on my little military 'do. Never mind. I'll see if I can pull off a miracle, exercise that baffling-with-bullshit muscle that firms up out of sheer desperation. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

04-09-2013, 06:49 PM	#2
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Well, for S&BT, every student will have the same crap, so your mark will fall about middle. No major worries there. The other one is harder. Do the best you can, hand it in, hope. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

04-09-2013, 07:00 PM	#3
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	My mark can't fall around the mean/median/middle. There's a complication ... the Occ Med residents have an automatic admission to the MPH program, and most of the profs resent that. Our medical faculty ask us to be sure to get a 4.0, or if necessary maybe one B in the middle of it all ... so as to justify the automatic admission. A C is NOT acceptable. I will give it the big push this week, but I have another, more important midterm next Tuesday in Occ Health so I can't push so hard that I get sick. I have to be able to work this weekend. It's so frustrating - since chemo, anytime I push hard, whether physically or in sleep terms, I get sick for about two weeks. I understand why but it's frustrating. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

04-09-2013, 07:44 PM	#4
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Holy Christmas __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

04-09-2013, 08:24 PM	#5
IamSam Now living the life of a POW Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: The Lost Corners of Colorado Posts: 202	Any chance of tracking down someone who took that S&BT course from the prof who wrote the test? Maybe you could pick their brain about what material is covered on the exam. Sounds to me like you should go pull out the profs' hair instead of your own. Sorry to read what a difficult week you have in front of you. __________________ This space left intentionally blank.

02-17-2019, 10:33 PM	#6
Dude111 An Awesome Dude Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,111	This idiots ringtone,GOD IS IT AWEFUL!!!!! (Heard it earlier while @ a store) http://web.archive.org/web/200201060...g-ringtone.mp3 LOCAL MEDIA PLAYER NEEDED TO LISTEN I WANTED TO SHOVE THE THING UP HIS ASS!!!!!

02-17-2019, 11:59 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No media player stuff. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-18-2019, 10:31 AM	#8
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Join the 21st century dude, sheesh. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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