i get to play with legos!

when i was a child, there were two toys that i absolutely loved to play with:  tonka trucks (which i will still run to if i see them, especially the cement mixers) and legos; yesterday, i was able to program a mini-robot car made of legos!  i know, i know, i'm an (ahem!) adult, but i just love certain toys (kid's toys, people, get your minds out of the gutter), and i don't want to grow up.

so, there we were, the class of fourteen people, sitting in the rows at the computers, all very excited about being able to play with, i mean work with the lego robots, when the professor told us to break up into four groups.  the person who sat next to me and i work well together, so we were excited to have someone else join us.  others were calling out for certain students to join them, so there were three groups of four and my group of two.  the professor asked someone to leave one of the larger groups and join my group, and the general response was "no."  he finally went around and asked  a number of people by name, and ALL said, "no."  as amusing as i found it to be yesterday, i cried about it today.  i am looking forward to not being with these students next semester; never have i met a ruder bunch of people, and i have five (5) classes per week with them.  by the way, i'm back to finding it amusing, and the other girl and i finished our projects first.

[as a denouement, i spoke with the professor of the class about this, and he said i was merely exaggerating.  had this been the first incident with these classmates, it would not have bothered me as much, but i was not the first time i've been harassed by members of this class and it was extremely hurtful.  as i have five (5) classes per week with them, seeing them in the next class was extremely difficult, and i look forward to the end of the semester.]