in university group assignments are always a bitch.
working with the unfamiliar makes anyone nauseous, you don't know if you'll click with the person, how they are in their studies, etc etc.
during my 2 years of uni so far, i haven't had any major problems with group assignments...
till now.
i'm finally doing a course
i'm passionate about - event management,
i've finally got my act together (sort of) when it comes to uni.
all i need is to do a group assignment consisting of two parts and an oral presentation in the subject of event operations.
all that's in my way - is
ezra lagniton aka - the $5 girl - the paper girl - the psycho.
our group was picked from the three girls i was sitting closest too.
shirley,
ezra and
michelle.
shirley after week two, we never saw again, suspected drop out or unknown case of swine flu, who knows.
michelle, a modern day fob - looks like she's
aussie, internal fob.
and then there's
ezra - the geek with a heart of pure black - acne faced, glasses wearing, helmet lugging average girl, who thinks she superior to the human race. if you were to ask her who's smarter - her or
einstein, she'd say herself.
now in high school. you understood why the popular girls acted like they were better than you... in a way, they were - they were prettier, the boys loved them and people flocked over anything they did.
ezra would've been the stereotypical outcast, just an average face, not much personality and not the least bit social.
but for some reason, this outcast exterior has the popular girl interior. she speaks to you like your an
imbecile beaver that has just crawled out from the ground, and speaks to you like your in
kindergarten learning your first words.
so when our group assignment first began, she made sure we all had our parts - assigning me compilation of the assignment and the introduction and event concept. i was happy to do this, as
i'm a perfectionist in editing and i came up with the concept.
one weeks later, i hadn't replied to her 5 "check you email" text messages or said yes in reply to her "just making sure we're all doing out parts" emails - 3/4 in one week!
when i finally replied, she claimed quote
"you could've texted to emailed me so i would've known you were still breathing or something" and
"i am very much relieved that you are still alive".
puh-
leaseeee.
fucken drama queen.
week 8 part one of the assignment was finally due.
i had previously did an all
nighter to complete the assignment.
all i was meant to do, was shove our parts together, skim through it to make sure it made sense, spacing, font and page numbers, whack a cover sheet on it and
BAM assignment done.
instead, i spent around 4 hours trying to RE-WRITE
michelle's entire section, because it made NO SENSE and wasn't properly referenced.
so i had to get the assignment printed in colour, and the printing at the library costs $1 per page in colour. fuck me,
watever.
so i got it printed and sent the girls both a text to ask if they could split the costs of printing with me. 15 pages = $15 / 3 = $5 each.
met up with the girls after class so they could sign off on the assignment and both said nothing to me about the money. i felt like shit and just wanted to go home so i forgot about the money. realising when i got home, i sent them an email asking if it was okay for them to give it to me next class.
ezra replied that it was "unfair" for her to pay. and that it was MY fault, because if i sent the assignment to her, she would've gone to her work and got it printed for "FREE".
she then stated, that the second part of the assignment, she will print it at work - and we'd be even... O_o
mind you, she had never mentioned that she could print colour or asked about the printing before this.
so this is when psychotic behaviour began, it was moderately dormant until this event.
last week
ezra sent me an email saying "
mylene, i have a surprise for you, but i can only give it to you in next weeks class"
w t f - was the first thing that came to my mind, then
watever *shrugs*
so last week i went to the lecture and there
ezra was. after class she approached me, with a pink
supre bag. "here you go, don't ever charge me again" and walks off. i look inside the bag... and what do i find... ???
a block of
fuji xerox paper. SHE GAVE ME FUCKING PAPER?!?
i was stunned, like literally. i looked like a stunner mullet had just eaten me and replaced my face.
fuck my life. oh em gee.
i called
ben and he couldn't believe it, we pondered in silence - in what way could she possible think i wanted a block of paper, all i asked for was to share the
mear cost of printing and she gives me a block of paper? this coming from a girl who works at
roy morgan 24/7.
ever since "the paper incident"
ezra and
michelle don't sit near me in class., or talk to me. they only contact me though email to tell me WHAT to do & HOW to do it.
i'm sorry, but i don't appreciate being treated like an idiot or being looked down upon, and if
i've got a problem with you
i'll address it. to keep the peace, i tried no to go off and speak to them like how
i'm speaking to them on my blog - but both of them wouldn't know my blog or use
facbeook so
i'm pretty safe.
i could care less what they think of me, but all this drama makes it real difficult considering that we still have part two of the group assignment, and a group oral presentation to do. *sigh*
this week, i was unable to go to class. i
msg'd ezra and asked if she could email me the feedback we got for part one of our group assignment.
she did, but i couldn't tell what was HER edits and what were the TEACHERS. because she decided to go all
michael angelo on the thing.
she also said in the email, that the presentation of the assignment needed to be better, the referencing and also the design. FUCK ME. i checked the feedback the teacher gave us, all that she mentioned, were my parts, - and all my parts
received an excellent rating, her and
michelle's parts on the other hand, only very good.
this girl is a
narcissistic arrogant and fucked up individual. i have never been so frustrated, shocked or
appalled by an individual in my life.
only two more weeks and this shit is over. i hope i never see her face again, and for the sake of every other human on earth i hope this is her last group assignment EVER and that she is taken to the pound and put down to save anyone from the misery that is
ezra langiton.
that is all =)
p.s. i would really love to know what everyone thinks... was it unfair of me to ask the girls for money to share the costs? is it unfair that they are blaming me for the "average" (and it's so not average) marks we got on the assignment. is she nutty or is it just me?
click comments below and let me know what YOU think about this situation <3
