HistoryBritt

Vent/Advice: I had a group project last semester that was h-e-l-l from start to finish when it came to dealing with my fellow group members.The final product was to be turned in as a report that would later be professionally printed and bound after the final draft had been edited per the professors comments. The report was returned to one of the group members after the break and I asked to see it in order to look over the comments. I was told another group member was in posession of the report and though I asked to view it, my emails were never returned after that. Weeks then months pass and I hadn't mentioned us revising the report because I honestly was quite busy and figured when I could devote some time to dealing with these people I would. I have class with a couple of the group members and thought I overheard some conversation about this report. Playing the devil's advocate in the next couple of days I "innocently" asked when we would look over and make changes for the bound copy. One of them couldn't even look me in my face (I assume due to shame)! The other let me know that they recently finished it and had been working on it the past couple weeks! They turned it in without my input, without consulting me, or any idea that they had decided to work on it without me. I am livid and not just at this one instance, but how I have been treated as a whole since I started this program I have mostly been treated this way. I am constantly shut out, not informed and purposely not included in the loop. I am a nice, social though initially quiet person. I'm not ugly, I don't smell bad, LOL. I like life outside of graduate school and have never had an issue working with others or making friends/acquaintances. Question: Were these group members wrong in how they handled this situation? and if so, how should I approach them about it? (Because I have had it up to here with them, I really want to hash it out and let them know that their behavior has not only been unprofessional, but that it has really pissed me off)

Meanyus---I did not tell them my intentions of possibly being readmitted. I don't know if that is something they just don't do or didn't think of as an option.

I got a second C in my program and that is a no no as far continuing in my MA department. I tried to contest the grade as I do believe it was unwarranted. (There is no grade appeal process) But nevertheless here I am ousted from my program and I am reeling as to what to do. Here's what I don't want: -to transfer to another program -to lose all of the credits that I already have Here's what I want: -to be readmitted in to my program in the fall My advisor, C grading professor, and the graduate coordinator have all suggested that I may just need this time off due to my father's death last year as well as my social anxiety problem. But the insinuation that I got from my conversations with them was more about finding another program all together On top of my "what am I going to do next" issues there are pride issues.I am still in town and I am taking a course as a non-degree seeking student. I already am not friends with people in my program and embarresment about my situation is most likely how I will feel after explaining why they (my cohort) only see me in one class. Though I am not friends with anyone, they are all still "friendly," but I can hear them now "Did you hear so-and-so got kicked out of the program with only a semester left?" I can't avoid them because I have a class with some of them and will also be seeing some of them at a conference in a few months. What should my story be? Should I tell people the whole truth? Should I just saying I am taking a leave of absence? And overall how do I let my department know that I ultimately would like to be readmitted so that I can finish the program? Hope I made sense!