class rant. ugh.

[Lawn Guyland]

gonna make this quick. but i have to vent.

so i'm taking a creative writing class this semester and our last assignment was to write a 5 page short story about ANYTHING we wanted. so i wrote a story, not amazing, but whatever, it was a first draft. so we had to make copies for everyone in the class (about 20 people) and now we're reading eachothers and every day in class we discuss 3 stories. we each got a story that we had to lead a conversation in class about...

so today in class we do my story. the girl that leads my discussion starts off by saying she doesn't 'get' my story and that there wasn't enough and that more shit should have happened. she keeps going and going until my professor had to cut her off and be like 'not every story has to have bridges blowing up and people dying left and right.' the discussion continued and then she picks out the one or two grammatical errors i made.

so now i'm pissed. not because i can't take criticism well, because i can. but because her story was HORRIBLE. so the girl who read her story starts going, and i chime in and rip her apart. her story is about a 10 year old girl who gets rapped, but wrote the story like an 18 year old girl was speaking. we had to correct her dialogue format and all this other shit.

whatever, stupid rant. but i hate when people are like 'this shit sucks,' meanwhile they don't even know how to properly use quotation marks.

/rant.

[Quartney]

your school really seems like it has a bunch of winners nicole lmao

[wannabejeep]

you think that is bad? I wrote a paper a few weeks back and had to edit it a couple times and then our last editing day before the final draft we peer edited. I got stuck in this group with these two black girls. One of them is reading my paper and calls the teacher over and they go out in the hall. So now I'm like wtf? I start reading their papers and they are god awful. I was struggling to understand what they were trying to say and this is the fuckin draft before the final copy! Most people were editing for like commas and I was like re writing their entire papers just so it could be understood.
So I get out of class ripping pissed go back to my room and see what one of them wrote as far as edits on mine. She took correct sentences and edited them to be incorrect.
the sentence was " I have never gotten below a C average in my school career"
she changed it to "I haven't never gotten below a C average..."
How the fuck are we in the same class?

[Quartney]

double negatives!! i love them!!

[Chaos]

This is going to be fun going back to school in August......I'm just going to write a paper ahead of time titled " Fail "

[Lawn Guyland]

oh yes. this girl corrected my paper to say incorrect things. really awesome..

and her story was about a 10 year old girl who gets raped by a 13 year old boy, then goes home and decides to cut herself. real lovely.

[Quartney]

oh sweet someone who doesnt want attention.

remind her she graduated high school.

[wannabejeep]

oh yes. this girl corrected my paper to say incorrect things. really awesome..

and her story was about a 10 year old girl who gets raped by a 13 year old boy, then goes home and decides to cut herself. real lovely.

It's like a fairy tale!

[Pedro]

i HATE doing peer critiques. the end

[Mel]

Aww im sorry nicole! That sucks, but i would have ripped her apart when they got to her story too, kuddos for doing that.

[Lawn Guyland]

funny thing is, i'm reading the stories for the next class right now and they're just AWFUL. i can't believe people are making it this far into their college career and they can't indent the proper amount, use capitalization, correct quotations, commas, or write an entire story in the same tense.

[BOX]

these two black girls

you mean naggers?

Ebonics FTL

[jeepxj88]

i HATE doing peer critiques. the end

^x2

[Even]

all of the above is why i'm going in the military

[Vehicleless]

in just going to state i HATE papers