CC's Stuff and Things

Post secondary students should not share space with extra non-traditional students.  I have always hated group projects, but adding in these high school kids--that aren't paying for the class as I am--into a group project that I have to do for my biology lab, is really just awful. Our project is covering GMOs, and we have a group outline due Wednesday.  I took the leader position of the group b/c a) I'm the oldest so it comes naturally to me, b) I want a good grade.  A week and a half ago, I emailed everyone in the group and told them to send me a few points about their portion of the topic by today so that I could compile the outline in time for Wednesday.   However, last Wednesday, no one had even checked their school email--addresses they all CHOSE to give me--so I reiterated everything I said about the outline in person, they all agreed.  One of the high school girls asked me what she should send me and I told her to watch for the email that the TA w...

I am struggling this year with the holidays approaching. September 25, I was fired from a great position I had at a local medical facility here in town. I have been struggling with depression and anger over this incident since, though I did tuck it down deep into my brain while I found another position elsewhere. It took six weeks, but I am employed again at another medical facility. But now that the worry of finding another job is over, I am so depressed. I have tried to spin the situation. I do have plans to return to school after 13 years to pursue something entirely different--education. And I am well aware that I would not have ever gone back to school had this not happened to me. And the position I accepted has a schedule that will allow for me to do so. But I'm still so angry at this place for firing me. I'm not going to name names or even allude to which facility fired me. Those who know me, know who it was. The reason they gave me for my termination was becau...