The Rant Thread/My Life Sucks Topic [Don't be pricks]

[SlowPokemon]

At least wait until you can spell it

jk braix ily

[braix]

oh shoot I was thinking "scent" while I was typing that

[cashwarrior1]

Welp, I feel like I'm losing all my old friends (at least where I'm living right now). I guess it's a bad thing as we were friends for several years, but I'm also gaining more friends who I like better as friends. The only problem is that my old friends are the only friends that I can talk to about the things I like. I dunno what I should do: try to keep my old friends or make new ones.

[Altissimo]

>spent nearly three weeks studying for a music history diagnostic exam, by re-reading my textbook. two chapters a day
>textbook is over 1100 pages long
>i took 105 pages of microsoft word notes on this textbook
>that is the size of a small novel
>took test today
>DIDN'T KNOW LIKE 75% OF THE QUESTIONS ON THE TEST, AS IN, THEY WERE EITHER SHIT MY TEXTBOOK NEVER EVEN MENTIONED IN PASSING OR THEY WERE RIDICULOUSLY OVER-SPECIFIC TO A POINT THAT THERE WAS NO WAY I COULD HOPE TO GET THEM UNLESS I WAS LIKE A BONA FIDE EXPERT ON 17TH CENTURY OPERA OR WHATEVER THE FUCK
>probably going to have to re-take test
>all that time spent studying my fucking textbook was wasted
>i want to cry
>fuck my life

[mikey]

Don't worry you actually did really well

[Altissimo]

no

[Maelstrom]

Is it not curved?
I have a good friend at Princeton and he says the top grades on just about every final is 50-60, before the curve. Being able to pass a class is only dependant on your ability to do better than your peers.

[Altissimo]

it's a diagnostic test. this means it's to gauge my music history knowledge and is completely separate from competition against peers or any class. If I don't pass, I'll have to take it again and so on until I do pass. So no, I don't think it's curved. Passing is at least 60%. Considering all the GUESSING i was doing I guess that's a possible outcome but I highly doubt it.

[Maelstrom]

That sticks. Best of luck.

[Ruto]

Is it not curved?
I have a good friend at Princeton and he says the top grades on just about every final is 50-60, before the curve. Being able to pass a class is only dependant on your ability to do better than your peers.

Lol not undergrad and not an Ivy where they pass more students than they should so they don't feel bad about who they've admitted (their "investments"). I knew a kid at Yale who admitted he fucked up so badly in his first year, but ended up with B's in everything. My professor who went to Harvard admits they bump up grades like this too.

Yep.

[DS]

Oh my goooosh
OK sorry I'm about to rant right now
My mom just went through the weirdest mood swing
She gets really irritating when I'm discussing work
So after heckling about my hours for the school year
She just gave my family the cold shoulder like she usually does when she's irrationally irritated
Especially about my "running to the recording studio everyday" (not even true, literally last year I went at most once a week)
And "If your homework isn't done at school, you're goofing off"
So she was like "School work and getting to college should come before work"
And I was like "Well, next summer I need to start working more to save up for college"
And she's like "No, you need to improve your schoolwork so you can get scholarships"
"You can get a job at college, but just for spending money"
😕
Like top-notch schools pay full-rides...
Then I was like "I got 5s on my AP tests (3 of them, I got in 3 in Chem tho, still passing) and have an AP scholar with distinction award, and colleges like that"
And she was just like "Yeah... great"
"As long as your grades stay up"
And doesn't even care
She's just worried I won't get my chores done 😕
That's what she always rants about
"If things don't get done around here, I'm just leaving"
So I think to myself
"What the heck am I supposed to do to please her, huh?"
I do all my chores, but if she doesn't notice it she doesn't care
and when she notices that I missed something
even once
she just festers
and yells at us about it
"It's just you and that dang Internet"
"All you can think about is what you're going to do next on it"
"And some person's gonna find you and kidnap you"
"I'm going to throw your laptop out the window and across the lawn"
"If you want to work more, then use your money to pay our electrical bill"

K, that's it

[Maelstrom]

"And some person's gonna find you and kidnap you"

This quote pretty much sums up all this illogical crap she's giving you. Honestly, she just seems frustrated and your internet habits are the easiest place to take it out, simply because she doesn't see your finished products like she might otherwise.
In all honesty, that sucks. I'd give you advice but I still haven't found out what the heck to do or say to people who are constantly being inconsistent or hypocritical because, the instant you point it out, they just get mad.
If anyone figures out what to do, I'd love to know also.

[cashwarrior1]

Survive long enough until college. I dunno I was about to rant, but this is more important.

[E. Gadd Industries]

My parents are like that sometimes too. I just keep telling myself "Two more years & you'll be outta here, and you won't look back." (Aside from coming back to get my things, of course, but I'm not staying very long here once I get out of college. I'll just get my things, and figure out where I'm going)

[BlackDragonSlayer]

And "If your homework isn't done at school, you're goofing off"
So she was like "School work and getting to college should come before work"
And I was like "Well, next summer I need to start working more to save up for college"
And she's like "No, you need to improve your schoolwork so you can get scholarships"
"You can get a job at college, but just for spending money"

Don't know how apt this is to your specific situation, but it bothers me when people try to make up for a lack of intelligence by being obstinate and "in control" of everybody else who doesn't agree with them (coughcoughmicromanagingcoughcough).