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Post by Ava on Dec 2, 2015 7:25:22 GMT -5
It's about a class I'm taking. I am overwhelmed. After going to school for many years I really thought I was done. I am BURNED from full-time work and night classes. But it turned out I had to take two extra classes to sit for the Florida CPA exam. So, I am taking them.
One of them is going well. The other one was going well until this weekend. It's an accounting information systems class. I was up to date with everything, and with good grades on the two exam we've taken so far. As part of the class we had a group project that involves a fictitious company. We had to do all the entries, fill out all the documents, do month closing and year closing, ON PAPER. The project is beyond time consuming and tedious. Of course I have 3 overachievers, type A people in my group, and one slacker who didn't even show up for the meetings. Last Sunday we met to finish the project which is due today, but I didn't realize how much more we still needed to do, and how much these 3 teammates had done on their own during Thanksgiving. I did my best but couldn't catch up with them. We sat at a Panera Bread for 6 hours Sunday and still didn't finish the project.
The professor said each group had to give him one folder. Mine is a mess and it's incomplete. We don't know if he'll select one folder or we can decide which one to give him. My teammates noticed I was falling behind during our meeting and one of them made a couple of snarky comments about it. Up to now I've always been a good team member always, but now I'm at the bottom and I feel I'm "taking" them, riding on their effort. Or the alternative, that they tell the professor I wasn't able to finish the project.
Then it turns out we had a third exam due today, to do online. I studied for it Monday and yesterday. So I log in this morning and the exam is no longer there. The Professor said in class to do it on or before December 2nd, but it's not there. So I emailed him, but he doesn't always get back to you quickly. So at this point I'll have to leave work early if I still have a chance to do the exam.
I've never failed to do an exam so far. I feel awful to the point that I'm thinking of just giving up on this class. I should think that it's only a class, I can retake it, doesn't affect my GPA because I'm done with the MBA, it's just a random class for which I need credit. My weight is still going down and my sugar level is perfect. I'm going home for a three week vacation pretty soon. There's no snow yet and none on the weather channel for the foreseeable future. So this is just a blip in the radar. But I feel so anguished about it. I just needed to share.
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Post by Shooby on Dec 2, 2015 7:39:07 GMT -5
Hang in there. Focus on the end goal. Just do whatever you need to do to get done. If you get a C or even a D and pass just get through, then just get through. Honestly, I don't know very many employers who look at grades that much. They care about having the certification, license, good references, etc. Just keep pressing on.
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Post by taz157 on Dec 2, 2015 8:57:27 GMT -5
Sroo and Shooby are spot on. Just do what need to do to pass and move on. ((((Hugs))))
Edited: Rukh is spot on too
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 2, 2015 9:14:42 GMT -5
The professor said each group had to give him one folder. Mine is a mess and it's incomplete. We don't know if he'll select one folder or we can decide which one to give him. My teammates noticed I was falling behind during our meeting and one of them made a couple of snarky comments about it.
Tell them take their Type A personalities and shove it up their ass.
A better response would have been how can they help you get up to speed, especially if you were sitting there for 6 hours discussing the project beforehand.
We all have times when we are less than perfect, we are human beings. Sometimes you just have to tread water and accept things for what they are.
I royally F-ed up a project at work once. My boss had me doing several things at once, all of which naturally had to be completed yesterday. Then he tosses a project at me and announces I have two weeks to complete it.
I didn't complete it in two weeks.
I got an "average" employee review instead of a "excellent" one that year.
At first I was devestated but then I realized that was the first time in five years I had ever really screwed up. The world did not stop spinning when I was less than perfect, the lab did not shut down. So after that it became about survival/triage. There was no way I was going to be able to be perfect for everyone so I focused on whatever the highest priority was and everyone else got what was leftover.
Since this is not a majors course I would say screw it. Focus on what really matters to get your MBA done and just let this class slide. Who cares what your teammates think once this class is over you are done with them. Don't kill yourself trying to be perfect for these people or this class.
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Post by Ava on Dec 2, 2015 18:17:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the good vibes. I'm at the library now. My manager let me go early so I could take the online exam (that man has earned a special place as my hero) It turns out the professor took the exam down but several people emailed him because he said it would be available until today. So he loaded it back, but I had to leave work early in order to do it, since it's only available until 11:00 pm and our class ends at 10:00 pm/ I just checked my personal email, and I have a ton of messages from these ladies about the project. It's a chain email where they ask did you do this, what did you do with that, etc. The three of them kept at it all afternoon, apparently. I am out of the loop. One of them asked me specifically where I was at with the project and I honestly answered I did what I could and I am about to take the online exam right now. I offered to print anything they sent me since they seem to need to print stuff and I'm surrounded by printers here. They didn't get back to me.
I'll just walk into the class with my head held high and whatever. I don't care at this point. All I need is a C. I'm tired of classes and group projects. I need to keep my focus on myself and my health, not on this. I understand their viewpoint though; they worked hard and don't want others to mooch off them. Yes, in this case I'm the mooch. But I'm an unwilling mooch because I would rather the professor assigned the project individually. I can deal with a low grade on the project because I just need to pass. I feel very uncomfortable taking any kind of advantage of other people. The class is done in a couple of weeks. I can't wait to leave the university FOREVA.
Thanks for being there for me.
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Post by CCL on Dec 2, 2015 18:27:47 GMT -5
I hope the exam went well for you and good luck in class.
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Post by Jake 48 on Dec 2, 2015 18:32:02 GMT -5
Hang in there,
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Post by sapphire12 on Dec 2, 2015 20:34:38 GMT -5
Not too much longer and you'll be done with this class.
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Post by resolution on Dec 2, 2015 20:48:44 GMT -5
Hold your head up high and just slog through it for the last couple weeks, and it will be done. Just remember there is only a short time to push through and then you can take a well deserved rest.
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Post by Jaguar on Dec 2, 2015 21:01:01 GMT -5
You will get this done. You are a winner and not a quitter.
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Post by obelisk on Dec 2, 2015 21:06:38 GMT -5
Whishing you the best. You will come thru this ordeal. On my last final, I was proud to have a final grade of "D" it meant I was "Done" no matter the circumstances. Everything was about the final peace of paper that the showed I graduated. Since then no employer ever questioned the grade. It was all about the degree. Peace out.
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Post by Ava on Dec 2, 2015 23:49:32 GMT -5
Thanks, guys. I just made it home and had dinner. I'm exhausted. The online exam went well. The team members turned in a copy of the project with my name included, though one of them was making an argument for excluding me. They were sitting far from me but I have excellent hearing. The other guy in the group that never showed up for the meetings didn't show up today and his name was not included. I have one more class and the final in two weeks, which will be online. And then I'll be like obelisk, Done. Done and on my way to a good vacation. I am so glad I have you to share this kind of stuff with, sometimes it gets to be too much and I need to share. I am also telling my boss tomorrow how awesome he is. For a woman on her own like me, with family far away, he's been a huge support. He's supporting my three weeks vacation, lets me leave early when I have school tests, he's amazing. We had a difficult start but over time he has won me over. I will miss him when I move away. Now looking forward to finishing the semester, see the grades posted, and forward them to the Florida CPA Association.
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Post by suesinfl on Dec 3, 2015 0:31:30 GMT -5
Ava, you can do this! It may not be the way you wanted it turn out, but you are giving it you all. Ignore the snarky remarks and keep plodding along. Like you said, you only need a C to pass the class and sometimes that's enough. In my math class tonight we had a very hard test, but we were told that hope for an A, be satisfied with a B, and accept a C. That thought helped me stress less and to concentrate more on what I was doing.
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Post by toomuchreality on Dec 3, 2015 7:11:53 GMT -5
Best of luck. Not much longer now!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 3, 2015 9:12:27 GMT -5
They sound like martyrs to me. They sound like the type of people who relish having the opportunity to tell others how much work they did compared to you. If they were really THAT concerned they could have involved you more in the email chain or used those 6 hours you were at Panera to bring you into the loop. Instead they used it to make bitchy comments.
it says more about them than it does you.
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Post by swamp on Dec 3, 2015 10:31:43 GMT -5
They sound like martyrs to me. They sound like the type of people who relish having the opportunity to tell others how much work they did compared to you. If they were really THAT concerned they could have involved you more in the email chain or used those 6 hours you were at Panera to bring you into the loop. Instead they used it to make bitchy comments. it says more about them than it does you. It also sounds like they aren't working full time either.
Fuck them.
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Post by Value Buy on Dec 3, 2015 11:08:01 GMT -5
They sound like martyrs to me. They sound like the type of people who relish having the opportunity to tell others how much work they did compared to you. If they were really THAT concerned they could have involved you more in the email chain or used those 6 hours you were at Panera to bring you into the loop. Instead they used it to make bitchy comments. it says more about them than it does you. It also sounds like they aren't working full time either.
Fuck them.
But be gentle about it. Your better than that
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Post by lund on Dec 3, 2015 18:06:48 GMT -5
I feel for you, having once been in a project with a bunch of people who all knew each other and had already divided the work into a list of who makes what when which did not go well with my other classes when I was assigned to their group.
What I did was similar to what you did - get through it, and ignore the nastiness. (But I know their names, and I will not recommend these for anything but street sweeping if they happen to arrive in my quiet corner of the world... )
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