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How do you explain to the lab teacher that you are doing poorly because your lab partner is constantly distracting you?
In my Micro lab class, I am partners with another girl. She asks me A LOT of questions and prevent me from smoothly doing the lab activities. Usually, I am okay with it. She's not a bad person. There use to be another guy in our group and he would help me answer her questions when he see that I am busy. Well, he dropped the class due to job reasons. Since he is not there anymore, I am the only focus of her attention and it is killing me!
When I am trying to sort out the activities and what to do, she is constantly bombarding me with questions. What do I do? What are we doing now? What is that? What am I suppose to do next? By the time I am walking her through her stuff, I am way behind on my stuff. For the last 3 labs, I have been the last person to finish my things. It is not really a problem if it wasn't for the fact that I have to rush through all the activities before the next class come in. I don't have a chance to analyze the things I have done. It is especially important, because my teacher gave us a big project to do after the midterm which involves a specimen. We have to do everything we do (all of the activities/tests) to the specimen. At the end of the semester, we have to make a report and guess what that specimen is. Well, I am worried that I will mess up this important report, because I do not get the chance to do thorough work due to constantly rushing.
Today, my lab partner REALLY got to me. I was all over the place and split one of my vials which is part of the series of activities to determine the specimen. I am already behind, but I am even more behind! After class, I try talking to the teacher to let me have more time to work on the activities. (The lab is 3 hours long. On a normal lab day, my teacher can talk to 1 and half to 2 hours of the lab. She is a very talkative and energetic person who can go on and on like an Energizer bunny.) She tells me that she thinks she gives the class plenty of time to work on the activities. Granted, I would have plenty of time if I was not hand-walking my lab partner through her things. However, I did not bring that up to my teacher. I do not want to let my teacher think that I am not being a team player or that I am blaming someone else for my problems. In a real workplace, you have to work with all sorts of people and you just need to get use to it. It's life. (Also, it is one of the reasons I do not pick my professors. I keep what I get. I consider it is giving me workplace and people training.) My teacher thinks that I do not pre-read the material. She says, "Sometimes, students do not read the labs before class and they come unprepared. Or, some students need to read more than other students." For some reason, that statement got to me and I became silent. I was devastated. Did my lab teacher really think I do not read before class or not enough? If she thinks that, I am doing something wrong. She thinks I look lost which in all honesty that is probably how I looked today. It is because I was running all over the place like a chicken with its head chopped off to get things set-up as my lab partner is clueless on what to do. Granted, she does help with clean-up, but that is about it today. I do not know how to do what I want to do which is
- set my lab teacher straight*
-be able to complete my work thoroughly*
*without giving the teacher the wrong idea/message and dealing with my lab partner in a good manner. After all, we have about 3 more weeks/ labs together.
In my Micro lab class, I am partners with another girl. She asks me A LOT of questions and prevent me from smoothly doing the lab activities. Usually, I am okay with it. She's not a bad person. There use to be another guy in our group and he would help me answer her questions when he see that I am busy. Well, he dropped the class due to job reasons. Since he is not there anymore, I am the only focus of her attention and it is killing me!
When I am trying to sort out the activities and what to do, she is constantly bombarding me with questions. What do I do? What are we doing now? What is that? What am I suppose to do next? By the time I am walking her through her stuff, I am way behind on my stuff. For the last 3 labs, I have been the last person to finish my things. It is not really a problem if it wasn't for the fact that I have to rush through all the activities before the next class come in. I don't have a chance to analyze the things I have done. It is especially important, because my teacher gave us a big project to do after the midterm which involves a specimen. We have to do everything we do (all of the activities/tests) to the specimen. At the end of the semester, we have to make a report and guess what that specimen is. Well, I am worried that I will mess up this important report, because I do not get the chance to do thorough work due to constantly rushing.
Today, my lab partner REALLY got to me. I was all over the place and split one of my vials which is part of the series of activities to determine the specimen. I am already behind, but I am even more behind! After class, I try talking to the teacher to let me have more time to work on the activities. (The lab is 3 hours long. On a normal lab day, my teacher can talk to 1 and half to 2 hours of the lab. She is a very talkative and energetic person who can go on and on like an Energizer bunny.) She tells me that she thinks she gives the class plenty of time to work on the activities. Granted, I would have plenty of time if I was not hand-walking my lab partner through her things. However, I did not bring that up to my teacher. I do not want to let my teacher think that I am not being a team player or that I am blaming someone else for my problems. In a real workplace, you have to work with all sorts of people and you just need to get use to it. It's life. (Also, it is one of the reasons I do not pick my professors. I keep what I get. I consider it is giving me workplace and people training.) My teacher thinks that I do not pre-read the material. She says, "Sometimes, students do not read the labs before class and they come unprepared. Or, some students need to read more than other students." For some reason, that statement got to me and I became silent. I was devastated. Did my lab teacher really think I do not read before class or not enough? If she thinks that, I am doing something wrong. She thinks I look lost which in all honesty that is probably how I looked today. It is because I was running all over the place like a chicken with its head chopped off to get things set-up as my lab partner is clueless on what to do. Granted, she does help with clean-up, but that is about it today. I do not know how to do what I want to do which is
- set my lab teacher straight*
-be able to complete my work thoroughly*
*without giving the teacher the wrong idea/message and dealing with my lab partner in a good manner. After all, we have about 3 more weeks/ labs together.