I'll be honest, my first semester in college was fairly easy, even when I was nervous about giving my speeches in speech class until the very end...We had a group speech to do and I honestly prefer to work by myself so all the responsibility is left on me not with others. With this group speech I felt I wsn't treated fairly at all and the work was not evenly distributed. For this speech five steps are required on our outline and out of those five parts I was only given one , which I found very unacceptable because we're being graded on the amount of work we contribute and also I felt as if they wanted to make it look lie I didn't do anything so I confronted my group about and the so called "leader" was saying you aren't actually only doing one part...

So at that point I went to my teacher and sent him an email about the situation aletting him know I felt my group was being unfair and he pretty much told me not to worry about because he knows I'm not a light worker and always responsible so I thought everything was okay.....

Day Before Speech

NOT!! Day before the speech I had asked my group what are we going to do about visual aid and how will we put all of our parts together in the outline since we only met outside of class once (this class is a Sat. class one day a week) and one of my group mebers had added all of her information into the outline and the other member acted as if they were too busy at work to do anything so I added his parts that he sent me. I was only providing the information I was given expecting it to be well put together and I had to put together our visual aid since they actd as if it were so difficult to put together a powerpoint...

Day Of the Speech (Today)

When I arrived to class today my group members were asking about the powerpoint and frantic about their parts, and I asked if they looked over it...which they probably only did once, they were asking if all of their parts were there and it turns out they had opened the one I had sent as a draft instead of the final...(idiots) So when it came time for me to conclude the speech I completely ed up, and made an ordeal of it until class was over...I get home check my grade and I got a C on the speech as an individual grade (which I found unfair) and our group outline was a 'D' a ty grade....neither did we meet the time requirment for our speech... So you're probably wondering what my grade is like.. Well fr someone who showed up to class every week didn't do so well. I have an 88% as a final grade which is BS but I blame myself for missing a quiz, BUT I WILL NOT accept my grade for my final speech.

At least I will NOT be taking another English class for the rest of my life.