Sunburns and 2.9s? What the fuck!?

Well, I’m back so I obviously survived the roofing escapade I’ll talk more about that in a second, but I wanna relay the shock and utter pissed-off-edness I felt after seeing my grades for this last quarter. Basically, out of the three classes I took, I didn’t do so well in my second medical transcriptionist class. Grades are judged on a scale between 1.0 – 4.0 and I received a 2.9 for the class. I about shit my pants when I saw the grade on the school’s website. The other two classes were pretty good — English 4.0 and Business Math 3.3 (Which is wonderful considering I despise mathematics. ), but apparently I fucking BOMBED the transcription class. Well, I didn’t fail it because I am above a 2.0, but still.

I’ll tell you exactly what happened and why I believe I failed it: i.e. the teacher got pissed off at me and graded on a curve or something. We had these stupid case studies we had to transcribe and then go over with our classmates outside of the class. We met 3 times, the last of which we went over case study #5 and #6. So, you would think that yes, our answers and papers would be somewhat the same especially since we went over it as a group After we met, this chick that’s in my class and that attended the get-together called me. I had put my cell number in the message board of our school’s site in case anyone needed help and she contacted me because she had some spelling questions on the sixth case study. So, being a NICE person without evil intentions, I emailed her a copy of my report. I didn’t see anything wrong with it considering we were told to help eachother out and to act as a group and assist if there was any problems. In the end, I got majorly screwed.

My teacher emailed both of us and pretty much insinuated that one of us had cheated. Apparently our papers were exactly the same, verbatum, word for word. Of course I instantly hit the fan when I read this and I emailed her back explaining what happened. When she finally got back to me, she told me I should have used better judgement but that she "believed" I wasn’t trying to get away with anything and not to do it next time. I wanted to strangle someone and I still do. I wrote her back and pretty much agreed, just trying to forget about the whole thing because honestly I didn’t do anything wrong. I told her I understood if I received a zero but in the end, she said I got the grade I deserved which turned out to be 70%. All of the other case studies I turned in were all in the 90s so I wanna know what the HELL she is talking about. Stupid fucking people. That’s the last time I go out of my way to help anyone with anything school related. I take my work seriously, especially since it’s for my future job.

Okay on to roofing. How was it? Actually, not too shabby. We aren’t done by any means and Chris’s sister and her family are coming back up Fourth of July weekend to help finish. I really didn’t like going up the ladder and you guys should have seen me acting like a little baby going down it. Once on top, my job was to scrap shingles and pull up this stupid paper that was underneath it. It had some kind of fabric wound in it and it wouldn’t rip unless you tugged on it super hard and left an imprint in your hand. The tar also sucked because it got everywhere and messed up the knees of my pants. So GAY. My pants kept coming down and exposing the lower part of my back and because the sun couldn’t go behind the colds like the forecast said it would I got a gnarly sun burn. You would think I would know better since I have dealt with my fair skin my whole life and would have applied sunscreen, but NO I can’t be bothered with petty things like that. It hurts when I sit, lay down, drive and even go to the bathroom. I would have to get burned in the worse possible spot. UGH.

I guess the question is did I learn anything? UTILIZE sunscreen because in the long run it’s going to be my best friend and don’t help people with their work, let them do it their lazy-ass self.