2006.05.14
Talentless Hacks
17.55.40 - Mark
I just saw my grades from my latest semester at High School University and I'm outraged. I recieved C's in three of my classes and only one of them was justified. One was the infamous projects class, where I worked my ass off compensating for the other student who in no way was prepared for that class.
I developed three perfectly functional web applications and documented them as best I possibly could in the time and conditions I was allowed. Everything I did in that class was in no way "average" - I worked above and beyond the requirements of the class and what has been covered in the cirriculum. The last weekend alone I pulled in something close to 20 hours of work so the class wouldn't be a misserable failure and my reward is a fucking C.
I spent hours writting debugging, and testing code outside of class while the other guy barely broke a sweat entering a dozen pages of pre-existing copy into a commercial template he had purchased shortly after entering the class. One the last project alone he was incapable of developing a single PHP script where I wrote dozens of them while trying to teach him the basics of a language he should have already known.
The other class (the same teacher coincidently) the testing policy was a joke - grading us on an unannounced and unrelated criteria when all he did was sit in the back learnin the material like any other student. His only significant contribution to the class was the selection of a $60 dictionary of e-commerce terms that was horribly out of date for a book that was published with a copyright in the future (printed in early 2005, copyright 2006).
This isn't a joke its a fucking insult - and I'm outraged that there's nothing that I can do about these grades now - except remove my code from their server - which I'm in the process of doing.
I despise the fact that I'll likely need to spend another semested within the school's horrid halls.
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