ARRG!

Sometimes we have problems with the server and can't print. So I tell the students "Don't print. Your computer will probably crash and you'll lose your unsaved work." And everytime, EVERYTIME, someone raises their hand and says "Excuse me, teacher, but my computer froze." And it's ALWAYS because they tried to print, WITHOUT saving first. Then another one. It's like with Jedi knights, there are always two. The one who doesn't learn by instruction, and the one who doesn't learn by example (usually IMMEDIATELY after the first).

Then, after seeing the first few test monkeys obviously fail, another student tries to print and their work goes through (the server briefly started working again). This irks me for two reasons:

1) they tried to print after I told them not to

and

2) without a doubt, WITHOUT A DOUBT, another two "jedi" students will try to print and the server will be down again, and they lose their work.

Damn Jedi!

I hate the complainers.

I don't mind helping a student to do some work, even if they're very slow. But I hate it when someone comes in and complains on and on. "I can't find my disk. Oh, Hell no! Somebody stole it. Why is no one helping me find my disk? I'm going to kick someone's ass. I swear I'm going to quit this shit!" Then, when I find the disk right where it was supposed to be, the student is totally non-apologetic, "Good!"

And to top it off, she constantly asks for help. Maybe she's never heard the saying "You attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar". If you're the type of person who always seems to need help, wouldn't you naturally develop a pleasant personality? Oh, and on top of that, when she asks for help, she wants it now! If I'm helping someone else, she'll say something like, "Why are you not helping me?" or "See? This is why I can't do my resume, I don't get any help!"

The other day another student got mad at me because I wasn't helping her. I told her that I wasn't teaching that class, I was just there to help with computer problems. She gave me a dirty look, then said "I see how it is. You only help your favorite students! You're helping her, but not me." I then made it perfectly clear that I can't tell her not to do her classwork, because I'm wasn't the teacher for that class. That I was only helping resolve computer problems. She still acted indignant and told me that I wasn't being fair. Meanwhile, she wouldn't ask her question to the instructor, who was maybe 5 feet away. I called the instructor over, but she said "No, I don't need help." Sometimes you just can't win.

Wow!

While I don't think I'm a jaded person, or that I've seen everything, I believe that I have seen a lot and am not some "innocent, naive baby". But today... Wow! I overheard one student telling another about an experience she had this past weekend with her man (boyfriend, husband, or what... I'm not sure).

She said they go into a fight. A real fight. She said she took off her jewelry and told him to take off his rings, and they got into it, a fistfight. Right in the street! She said they went blow-for-blow, punching and hitting each other. That at one point they heard the police, so they took the fight upstairs to their apartment to finish. They fought all over, knocking stuff down, breaking furniture and dishes, etc.. The term she used was "crazy sick".

That it ended with them having sex, "crazy, angry sex that got a bit scary at times" is how she put it. That the next day, she almost ended up in the emergency room, because her side hurt, but decided not to go because she "didn't want to deal with all the questions and shit.". And she ended her story with "Yeah, that's my man... My man."

And, as if that weren't enough, the friend who was listening to the story said, "Tell me about it! A few weeks back I caught my man in bed with this little bitch from downstairs, I pulled her weave out and kicked her ass. I left the bitch right there on the floor, naked, and so she could watch as I sexed my man! Let her see how it's done right!"

All I could think was "Wow!"