Today I am thankful for kind lab partners.
I suck at physics, and I suck even more at physics lab. I've never really understood the point of labs. You’re basically just proving
things you already know. They are long, tedious, stressful wastes of time. In most labs, you pair up with someone the first couple days of lab and they’re
your lab partner for the rest of the semester. So you are either super lucky and have a
friend in the class already, which makes things so much easier, or you try to pair up
with someone smarter than you and hope for the best.
The point is that you and your partner create a system.
That’s what makes lab go more smoothly.
But oh no, not in physics. Leave it to physics to kick
you where it hurts.
In physics lab you are randomly assigned to a new partner
every week. It’s awkward, annoying, and it takes longer to get in sync with how
your temporary partner than it does to actually do the lab itself. And do you
know what really sucks? When you have no idea what in the world is going on.
You’re THAT girl. Or guy. But in my case girl. Obviously.
So it’s refreshing when you work with someone who isn't super impatient or hardcore. When they’re understanding, even if you’re not the
math wiz or computer ninja. Because I am neither. I am in constant fear of
slowing someone down, messing up the lab, or being an otherwise crappy lab
partner.
I worked with a girl today who was probably a zillion
times smarter than me, but she didn't act like it. She was kind and patient, and for that I am thankful. I didn't want to stab out my eyes with my pen, so it was exponentially better than most lab experiences.
I am also thankful Lizzy always gets done before me and today was bored enough to enter my data into the
computer for my graph, cause I suck at excel. Thanks Lizzy, you’re a champ.
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