In "light" of recent events, I've decided to post again. I don't even remember the last time I wrote a blog on squinkles. hrm.

Meramec has been proving to be way more of a hassle than a community college ever should be. And while realizing all of this, I only get the same dreaded response someone gets when they end a bad relationship, "Yep. That's how it goes." I'd much rather have an army of parents and friends willing to burn down many buildings, or at least wishing they could.

For the last two weeks I have spent my weekends reading every detail of my online english class assignments. I even read the hand outs that I already knew about, like introduction and concluding devices etc. I've spent hours on every assignment, making sure each submission was up to my standards which are pretty high. Most students can go through life where every submission they made was just to get it overwith. I'm one of the few who really tried their best and made sure to follow each requirement listed. The only thing I didn't do was bother the teacher about technicalities such as if two assignments are listed in the same document he posted on blackboard should they be submitted separately or as a single document? Which after tonight, I realized it's better to submit everything separately than try to guess as to what the teacher really intended. And as a side note, I will continue saying teacher until one of them shows me they can be a professor. So far, there's plenty of douchebagery to go around that generally comes with profs, however the mental instability and inability to deal with their own guidelines and grade each student accordingly leaves me brain dead.

So Mr. Robinson sent out a mass e-mail informing everyone of the specific assignments he graded. I was excited to check mine to see if my hard work had paid off. When I loaded blackboard, clicked on my grade profile, my grades were missing. The class average was there, but by each assignment I had turned in there only was a mark denoting my grade was absent.

In the e-mail he sent out, it listed a specific way to reply to him stating which assignments you turned in that weren't accounted for. I followed all of those guidelines, made abso-fucking-lutely sure that everything I turned in was labeled in the correct fashion and submitted correctly. It took an hour of my precious and little free time to write out proof of submission and attach each ungraded assignment into an e-mail to make sure I get my $100+ dollars worth.

I think it's especially funny that each student was required to take a blackboard usability test before beginning the course when my teacher can't even access my submissions.

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Something else about the same teacher- I had to submit ideas for a research paper which included cloning debate, stds, and birth control availability. I get an e-mail from him stating that none of those are valid and that I was now assigned to Campaign Finance Reform.

:( x a billion