Should I call out my professor?

[moisne]

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chem engineer major said, "You have to learn that the profs are like God; so don't piss them off."

Off topic... but Chem E ARE GODS...

Or at least we all think so haha

 

[Goro]

What you seem to overlook is that the other kid actually got a product. It may not have been a 100% perfect reaction that made the room glow like a 500 watt bulb, but it did glow.

I appreciate the responses, even the most critical ones. The thing is, I wouldn't be so caught up in a rut about this if she hadn't given that special treatment to the other kid. I mean...with a rather, superstitious and fatalistic perspective one could wonder why I walked in on the kid and the professor (this is the HEAD professor) doing their chemilumensence part of the experiment, during which he didn't get the full glow and the professor had to explain that he used too much acid or something that effected his glowing result; or why I just so happen to run into the kid and he told me he got full credit...It just really snapped a nerve in me because I was really stressed out about the whole thing.

It's just a matter of me weighing what has a priority? Finishing, maybe 30 seconds over time? or not actually getting the full blown reaction.

 

[Necr0sis713]

A product? Yes. Did he follow simple instructions for what volume of reagents he needed to use to set up the luminescence portion of the experiment? Apparently not.

Those extra minutes I spent making sure my volumes were on point would have probably prevented me from finishing negligibley over time.

 

[bc65]

So that was an urban legend!!!

No, not necessarily urban legend, but perhaps some details were lost in the telling. I have rarely seen a lock on an OR door, but for some cases, signs will be posted that say, "Do not enter" for one reason or another, for example, an ortho case with a joint replacement where everyone is wearing a spacesuit. So, while the door might not have actually been locked, the student might have been effectively shut out by a sign.

The only exception I have ever encountered was at one of the hospitals that I trained in, where the chief of vascular surgery had his own experimental hyprbaric OR. That is, a hyperbaric chamber which accommodated an OR table and anesthesia machine and not much else. The entire room was pressurized, and of course, the door was locked during pressurization and surgery. The theory amongst the house staff and other attendings was that while there was no evidence that this was useful clinically, it did mean that said attending had his own private OR for use when the others were all booked. Residents had nightmares about working that OR.

 

[TBV]

A product? Yes. Did he follow simple instructions for what volume of reagents he needed to use to set up the luminescence portion of the experiment? Apparently not.

Those extra minutes I spent making sure my volumes were on point would have probably prevented me from finishing negligibley over time.

Well this was a lab practical so it is more likely that you weren't adequately prepared and spent too much time thinking and second guessing yourself, not too much time measuring volumes. The reason for the time limit is that anyone could do it in unlimited time, only those that know lab procedures in and out will be able to do it quickly and correctly.

I don't think you have a leg to stand on in this one.

 

[jl lin]

A product? Yes. Did he follow simple instructions for what volume of reagents he needed to use to set up the luminescence portion of the experiment? Apparently not.

Those extra minutes I spent making sure my volumes were on point would have probably prevented me from finishing negligibley over time.

I hear you; b/c I can be AR about such things as well, especially given my particular line of work. But seriously, you have to let this go. So the other dude got the 5 points. Be happy for him and just keep doing your best within the parameters set before you.

I say good luck and God bless the other student. The truth is, sadly likability is a big factor. And sometimes you have control over that, and sometimes you don't. So if the t/a wants to hold you down to the very nanosecond, what are you gonna do about it??????

Would I have necessarily done that? Probably not.

Sometimes in life, you get what you get, regardless of whether it is perfectly fair or not. In fact, it can happen a lot more than sometimes.
I can't tell you how many kiss-ups have been substandard compared with others, yet they have moved ahead.
Am I supposed to fixate on that? No. I can only deal with what is within my locus of control.

You are just dividing your focus from that which you do have control.

Big point: The classroom, for better or worse, and indeed sometimes it is worse, is not a democracy. Work environments are not democracies. I too wish the edu and work world had more people that were magnanimous and had a stronger sense of balance and grace-filled fairness. But that is a utopia that does not exist. I am sorry to have to break this to you. We all have to learn it though.

 

[jl lin]

Well this was a lab practical so it is more likely that you weren't adequately prepared and spent too much time thinking and second guessing yourself, not too much time measuring volumes. The reason for the time limit is that anyone could do it in unlimited time, only those that know lab procedures in and out will be able to do it quickly and correctly.

I don't think you have a leg to stand on in this one.

Also, in reality, TBV's points are pretty strong.

 

[moisne]

You are such a BABY! and a whiner. Gosh.

It's like a cop pulls you over and you go "but the car ahead of me was going faster!!!"... so? You were still speeding.

Your grade is between YOU and your WORK, and possibly your GRADER. Now if there was something along that lines that didn't line up (ie. YOUR TA provided YOU with the WRONG sample? YOUR GRADER was hallucinating and mistaken YOU who showed up ON TIME with someone else?) then you have an arguing point.

What goes on between that guy and the TA is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. Grow up.

This isn't even the classic "pre-med student fighting back every point" - which is already freaken annoying enough... T

his is the "I'm a whinny jackass who is not going to take responsibility for MY action and it's NOT FAIRRRRRR, and I'm going to throw everyone I can under the bus. If I'm going down, I'm sure as hell going to drag this guy down too."

Guess what? Life isn't fair. Tough. :/

A product? Yes. Did he follow simple instructions for what volume of reagents he needed to use to set up the luminescence portion of the experiment? Apparently not.

Those extra minutes I spent making sure my volumes were on point would have probably prevented me from finishing negligibley over time.