The 'have a moan' thread

[xsianx]

Gave in a big piece of coursework yesterday, only to be replaced by two more now at the moment I have 4 to do.

One of them I had until the 18th of Feb to do but because my teacher is having an 'open eveening' with all the year 11 she wants to take in mine so I have one night to complete it all! and last time I gave her my work she kept it over xmas, so I was unable to do work

[Eli]

I'm so confused about what subjects to choose the next two years! I have just been to a meeting at school, and I'm even more confused than I was before I went there... Read more about it in my LJ.

[Nicom]

I have an idea of what I'm subjects I'm going to take, so I feel sorry for you. Hopefully it'll become much clearer when you get your GCSE results.

Urgh, here's my moan.

I'm doing an ICT Double Applied GCSE course. This basically means that I get 2 GCSE's in the end.

Because there's 2 GCSE's, we get 4 hours a week to do it. We've already finished all the coursework and the exam. (it's 2/3 coursework, 1/3 exam) So we're doing a Short Course GCSE course in the spare lessons - which my teacher knows I don't agree with. I've voiced my opinions, asking whether I can not do the course and use the lessons for revision or coursework catch up, but he won't let me. I'm not happy, but I got over it. I'm not in charge, after all.

We've got a school website where we upload all our ICT work to. I uploaded, as instructed, half of one of my coursework pieces months ago into one of the upload filey-things. Recently my teacher went to mark it and told me that it was corrupt. It isn't on my home computer or my school computer. Don't know why.. but it's probably due to all our computer problems. Anyway, the total jist of the story is; I've lost the MASSIVE part of coursework. I went to him today, telling him that I'll have to do it again.

Now, I wasn't expecting him to give me a hug or anything, but a little sympathy wouldn't go a miss. He was so rude and harsh, I wanted to hit him.

When I told him, he was like "Well, you know what you need to do..." And I nodded along.

But I've got LOADS of coursework from other subjects, so I really can't afford to be loading more on in my spare time. So I asked, instead of doing the short course GCSE, could I finish my other course in the lessons.

"I'm not dropping you out of the course, Nicole. I guess you'll just have to keep up with both."

So, obviously, I tried to argue my point. I opened my mouth, said a few words before:

"Don't have a cry about it." Not joking, not in a funny way. He clearly didn't care in his facial expressions.

I couldn't believe it! I could have yelled at him. THis coursework was about 40/50 pages long, and it had been corrupted. It's neither of our faults, and I wasn't even asking that much of him. Just to help me by unlocking me these 4 hours of work a week. But no, that was clearly too much for him to do.

So I'm left with a hell of a lot more coursework to do on top of the Chemistry and Statistics coursework, and I've got to keep up with another GCSE's coursework.

*groans*

I needed a moan.

[Cal]

I'm going to get my passport photo taken tomorrow.

I normally don't mind getting it taken, but because I have gained weight(due to tablets), I'm really conscious about how I look. I have developed a double-chin! It is getting smaller because they have reduced my tablet dosage, but it still looks horrible. Now I'm going to have a picture of a fat me on my passport for 3 years! Gah!

[Eli]

I was green in my last passport pic

I have lost my bus card... AGAIN.

But actually I'm in a pretty good mood because of shockingly good grades and snowboarding tomorrow

Thanks for the support, Nicom! I only have one VPF I need to sort out now, but I'm really not sure what to choose... I think I'll end up with with InfoTech 2. That will make my classes (without FFs) the next two years look like this:

VG2: FPF: English (international) and Culture&Communication, VPF: Print and photography.

VG3: FPF: English (society and economy centered) and Culture&Communiction, VPF: InfoTech 2.

[Pierced Musie]

Nicole: Do you have a form tutor? Or head of year? If so then go to them and explain your case because they may be able to help. Your teacher is being unfair and should be helping you because it means so much to you and your grades.

Cal: You'll look fine darling. At least your weight is because of your tablets .

[Nicom]

He is my form tutor. lol. So he was a crap form tutor and ICT teacher in one. Well done sir!

And to be honest I'm not sure who my head of year is. But if I find them, then they'll only report down to my form tutor - who will just argue his point and not give a damn.

Well, I was doing some last night and I've done about 31 pages I think. (There were random sections of it dotted around the place.) The problem is I think I've maybe only got 2 or 3 different sections yet to add, which won't bring me up to how much I can remember having. So I've lost a lot of work. I remember spending hours after school doing it, so I know that it isn't going to be as great as it was. I had to change and improve things, add on things and such; but I have no idea what. It was months ago, so I've just got to hope something jumps out at me. That's probably the reason why I'm so short of pages.

But right now I'm just focussing on doing the minimum and putting it together. Then I'll slam it on his desk and.. and.... okay, honestly, I'll do nothing. I'll just give him a dodgy look and go away and sulk. But I did rant to my parents, and I might bring it up at parents evening with him on Monday. I've been encouraged by a friend just not to do anything in my class so I don't get put into the exam. (If you do that crap, they won't put you forward to sit the exam) I'm tempted, but probably don't have the guts. lol

Cal - I look like a frog on mine. No one looks good on their passport photo; but at least you'll have an excuse for why yours isn't the perfection we all dream of. We ugly bums don't! We just have to admit it... "Yea, I look like a frog.." So when everyone is comparing passport photos, you sit there with your excuse, and laugh at there's. I bet you could have some good fun with it..

[Jess]

Cal: Like Nicole says, you have an excuse...I'm just ugly.

Nic: Definately bring it up with him on Monday; maybe if your parents are there, too, he'll have more of a "helpful" response. Good luck.

I have several moans...

a) The band I was meant to be going to see last night with my friend cancelled their gig, so we just saw the two support bands. But, 'twas free, and I found some cool new music - but it still doesn't replace the sadness of not being able to see CIWWAF!

b) I've been gone from Macclesfield for like 4 hours and I miss my mate already!

Sucks to be me.

[Skykat]

I'm really scared...I think my Dad has an alcohol addiction.

[Pete's girl]

Hello, I've just discovered this thread. Not meaning this to sound horrible but it's actually quite comforting to realise that other people have problems too cos I've been so low lately I kept thinking "mine's worse than anybody I know" but at least my dad hasn't got an alcohol addiction - that musy be tough Skycat.

My problem is I've had ME for the past 8 yrs - since I was 18 - I'm 25 now. I have been too weak to leave the house for about 3 weeks. Lately it has just been getting worse and worse and I've been feeling sick constantly. Yesterday I was being constantly sick and couldn't keep anything down, not even water. I'm wasting the best years of my life away and I hate it. So there's my story.

I guess we've all got to hang on in there, life will get better!