Last Tuesday I got pissed off over two of my teammates who didn't show up for class—one's the Project Lead, the other's the guy he gives a ride to school. I tried texting the both of them, twice, but no response.
Every Tuesday the Lead has a team meeting and then he takes in our peer reviews. Last Tuesday, Stretch had to run the meeting. It's not exactly a hard job to do, it's just somebody else's. And that guy didn't have the common courtesy of warning us he wouldn't be in; he just blew us off.
There's a lot of reasons I've been generally upset this term; they all relate to each other. It's my last term, I'm working on the last big project, I want it to come together but there's a lot of problems. The artists gave us non-usable artwork, and none of us thought to check it out before hand. Part of the reason for
that is they gave us movie files of the art and we assumed it was just a demonstration rather than the actual artwork—all their MAX files had one animation, the ball rolling around the track, and that's exactly what we didn't need. Blame that on their instructor, who didn't bother to read our request which clearly stated what we needed. Now we've got a Project Lead who isn't taking this class seriously even after 14 previous terms where he's been told "show up or fail"—and they never do fail. And the guy he gives a ride...he couldn't take a
bus?
Yesterday I watched the movie
Real Genius and I saw a character with a painfully harsh attitude who still managed to complete his school work and get good grades. I remember aspiring to be Chris Knight, the guy who could work hard but not be so damn serious or subject to pole-up-the-ass syndrome. These two guys blew off the class, but there's eight others on the team who're working hard on the project. I don't want to carry these two guys, if they do the work and blow off class that probably won't affect our final grade. And I don't want to get upset over two schmucks who don't care about school as much as I do.
Of course it could already be too late for me.
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