screwed

oh man. that's what i get for trying to be unique.

we had to do a timeline including variation among species in one of my classes.
A grid was given to us, but when i went to put in all my info i realized the characteristics column would be drastically longer than the rest.
so i ditched the grid idea and just laid things out on my own.

apparently it's a bad thing to defy simple orders like: "put your shit in the grid"
cuz i got marked down for it.
even though my timeline was arguably the most detailed, i got an 8 out of 10 on it.
i found out the class average to be 9.71.
so if you take the 8 people who did this assignment, multiply that by 10 and subtract by the two points i lost, you get 78.
divide 78 by 8 and you get 9.75 as the overall average.
that meanst that the majority of the other 7 people got very near 10 points on that assignment even though they had way less information than i did.

the day the papers were handed back, i was waiting for mine, but it never came.
later it did. it was hand delivered and i was told that i was marked down because, even though i was applauded for thinking 'outside the box', i was marked down for not following directions.
i was marked down two grade points for not following directions.
even if you turn your paper in late you only get marked down one grade.
that's some harsh shit.

i guess that will teach me to be unique.
i don't know what to do with this next weekly paper.
she's taunting me again saying that you can use another timeline.
this time i am using that damn grid even if one column stretches over two pages.
i've learned my lesson:
i'm the student, not the teacher.
my learning potential begins by following the rules.