The Moonlighting Student

Comments and circumstance

March 8th, 2007 6:36 am —  108 views

This blogs gets a LOT of spam in the form of comments. From time-to-time I go do a quick scan and delete them, which I did today. There were 650+ comments, all but one of them were spam. The one that wasn’t spam was a nice surprise. One of my classes from last semester involved a group project. The project itself worked out fine, but I could have handled things better than I did. As such, those that were in my group barely acknowledge my presence these days. I can’t really blame them though. My controlling and aggressive (passionate I prefer to call it) nature can put a lot of people off. I’ve reflected on my actions. I actually look forward to being in a similar situation again so I can exercise different options and not end up with people that avoid me. I’ve considered approaching them to try and make nice but something tells me it wouldn’t matter at this point. An unfortunate circumstance but alas, it is what it is.

But back to that one comment that was such a pleasant surprise. There was a person in our group that didn’t end up completing the semester and had to back out of the group project. I felt for her and could sense that she was struggling with something. While I tried to be helpful I’m not sure I was. Apparently she got wind of this blog, saw a brief mention of the group stuff and recently replied to one my posts from last semester. Brandi, glad to hear from you. By the sounds of it, you are in a much better place. I’m glad for you. Who knows, maybe we will actually talk about this in ten years and reminisce over these experiences. That would be cool.

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  1. Dawn King on March 8th, 2007 12:16 pm

    I’m glad she’s doing OK too.

  2. Christie on March 20th, 2007 1:24 pm

    You come by that attitude honestly! It isn’t bad, just takes some getting used to. I just thought I’d drop in and see how things have been with you. I hope you and Wendy are both well. I was wondering if you remember a story that I have been told about I don’t know how many times. It has to do with a skunk under the house?

    Anyway, I enjoy reading your blogs. I hope you also noticed that there is only ONE space! That is hard for me.

    Take care,
    Christie

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