Its presentation week, or the last week of classes before finals. I have a group presentation today and two tomorrow. This is not why I am annoyed. The presentation for today is finished and we are ready. One of my presentations tomorrow is ready, project management. That one has been ready for over a week. But, the presentation due at 9am tomorrow is NOT ready. Well its 1/3 ready, my part is just about complete. I have my program (well form), all of my code, my documentation, the “main content” as far as the market research and my form is concerned. The paper is completely layed out, all it needs is my group-mates parts, and a summary, so that I can do the table of contents. And then there is the powerpoint. Which, is easily pulled from the paper and documentation and code snippets. I have come to the point that I don’t care. I’ve worked on the paper a little this morning, I have class this afternoon, and when I get home I’ll finish everything. If I get nothing in my email or on Angel when I’m ready to print, so be it. I will NOT come up with 2 other prototypes. I will NOT send out ANOTHER email. I will NOT wait till midnight for their stuff. AND They WILL NOT present with me because I WILL NOT add anything tomorrow morning. Because once I print the paper, and make sure the powerpoint is complete as far as I can with my information, I will SUBMIT it in the dropbox along with a note to the professor.
Of course, the professor is fully aware of the issue. I am in another class with both of my teammates for Programming. The one individual is ALSO in my Project Management group, and was the cause of some issue, and may end up being taken off of our powerpoint because the person hasn’t added anything to it and has got until 5pm today before it gets submitted, and if it gets submitted without anything adding anything to it, the person’s name gets taken off. My PM group and a quite lenghtly discussion about said issues last week, and the professor tried to be fair about the whole thing. He knew the issues we had at the beginning, but we were able to resolve them. That all fell apart when said member didn’t show up at a group meeting to help finish the paper and do the powerpoint. The conversation escallated to the point we had to go to the professor’s office to try and settle it. The professor wasn’t taking a side or anything, just pointing out where things went wrong (like agreeing with the fact there was plenty of time to let someone know they couldn’t make it to the meeting!). We left there and it was kinda settled, all the person had to do was add a lesson learned to our power point and re-upload it. This has yet to be done. SAME person didn’t show up to work on the Programming project we have. The whole group agreed to meet during CLASS time to put it all together because the work day was given to us by the professor to do JUST THAT. And STILL didn’t come. Sent me a text at 9:30 saying “be there in a bit” but at 10:45, STILL wasn’t there and class was over. NO excuse not to come during a time we’d BE IN CLASS ANYWAY! The other team member came LATE like 10:30, but at least he was “almost finished” but I was also told the work would be posted to our team files last night and as of like 2 mins ago still NOTHING. But even though I am annoyed, I don’t care. When I get home today I am going to finish the summary, and table of contents. Then do the powerpoint of my things, and when its all done if there is nothing for me to add to it, so be it. I’ll print and submit. I don’t care.
Yeah, the Myers-Briggs thing annoyed me at first, I thought it was real negative, but ya know.. I am kinda like that. I don’t care about excuses. I don’t care about small-talk, I want to get to the point. In a project, I want to GET IT DONE. I don’t want to deal with people. Especially people who fall short of what they say they will do. I’m not perfect. I don’t say I am and I don’t even try to be. I just want effort. I give effort, I like to see effort. I’m even willing to help if I can, I refuse to do other’s work. I’ve done other’s work before. did a whole presentation in one night by myself (well with the help of my boyfriend who goes to another school) because group members just didn’t do a damn thing. I’m too old to deal with people who can’t manage their time. I have the same course load any average IST student has, and I’m involved in clubs. I got my work done. No excuses why others can’t. I refuse to believe there was no way work could be finished when it was supposed to be. RE-FUSE.
Finals are next week and I couldn’t be happier. Not that I enjoy tests, I’m just glad its over. And for a week I won’t have anything to do but go to work. And then, well I’ll have calc, but its the only class I have.
