Archive for October 28, 2007

Why I hate working in groups

Oct 28th

For a programming assignment for one of my classes, we were supposed to work in groups. I had every intention of working on my own until I realized that the assignment was so large that a single person would likely not be able to do it themselves. So I agreed to let two other (much weaker) students join me.

Sensing that I would likely be the only one who really knew what they were doing, I assigned much of the project to myself and gave small parts to the other members.

One guy wrote some code but clearly did not do any error checking. It wouldn’t even run. He has not yet responded to my telling him so.

The older woman has not given me any code yet, but says that she’s “working on it.” It’s been over a week now.

I have a bad, bad feeling about this… I may as well have done this by myself. I’ve already done almost all of it, and am now trying to salvage myself by doing their parts as well.

It’s due tomorrow, by the way.

This is a two-part assignment. I absolutely refuse to work with them on the next part.

EDIT: The woman has come through and delivered beautiful, bug-free code. The guy sent in a revision of his code but again did not do any error-checking. He has effectively done nothing for this project. I hope he fails.

Pretty boy

Oct 28th

Posted by meighan in Baby

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I have a very pretty baby. He’s so pretty, in fact, that strangers often think he is a girl. He has these big, beautiful eyes with outrageously long eyelashes, and wild, curly hair. He’s very cheerful and very loving. He always tries to feed me and his daddy, or give us some tiny treasure or another of his. He has a little girlfriend at his daycare. She runs up to him and they (attempt to) hug whenever he shows up. Strangers come up to him all the time, often ignoring other babies nearby, commenting on how absolutely cute he is, how friendly.

I worry about his teenage years. If he’s this popular with the ladies now, I don’t think he’ll stand a chance later. He won’t be able to fend off all the girls.

I’m guessing that means we should start teaching him responsibility from a very young age…

Random fact about baby: He loves music. Of all the Baby Einstein videos we have, he really only likes the Orchestra one. He also really loves Little Leaps because of all the music played on there. He loves to dance. I’m thinking I have a mini music prodigy on my hands.