Enjablog

I am so done.

Some more gems from our design report:

“Next, all the modules were brought into Model Center via the analysis server, put in the order which you will want to integrate and linked to the input file and each other where applicable. ”

“What all of this means is we are taking the broad perspective where all the possibilities are looked at, and that the large design space is narrowed down to a set of non dominated designs, and from those non dominated designs a small subset is chosen to go forward with into Concept Development.”

“Min Op Damage Worse Damage Cases” [a figure title]

“The below tables and figures” [a "sentence"]

And then there was the 1-paragraph section I received at 4am today (3 days late):

“The OMOR for this design is .305, and while the desired OMOR is 0, this is not bad at all.”

“The good thing though is that even though the structural failures have the worst consequence risk, their probability of happening is not big, so, overall it doesn’t create that much of a risk.”

I’m glad he has a good handle on what is good and not so bad. But my real question — why did this take him 4 hours to write?

And then there was the guy who edited my sections… First, combining my 5 paragraphs into one. Not by removing repetitive sentences or consolidating text. No, no. He just removed all my line breaks. Then, he made a correction to my appendix title from RAOs [Response Amplitude Operators] to RAO’S. Because that possessive plural really needs to be capitalized too!

If you’re going to be dumb, go do it on your own time. Don’t make me have to re-paste in my own sections because you wanted to look like you were helping.

But, on the bright side, I am SO done.

And I’m done with group projects for school. I guess I’ve been lucky though. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a group before where there was anyone this unhelpful. Because it’s not just the unhelpfulness… it’s the undoing of the work other people have done. Or preventing other people from working on something because you “have it covered.”

Now I just hope that this was enough to pull me off of probation. I’m a little worried…