Online class buddies *4 lyf*

Online classes are almost more awkward then group projects at non-virtual school...almost.

The only thing standing between making it more awkward is the computer you can hide behind, and in my case, unfortunately my cell phone.

Why was I talking to people on my online class via text and calling instead of emails and discussion boards? Because I tried to be a nice person and help out a struggling Mexican guy confused (and I'm not gonna lie I was confused myself) about our project after a desperate email.

Jose Flores floresj3841@student.faytechcc.edu via blackboard.com	Jun 23 (8 days ago)
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Hey there fellow Student, My name is Jose Flores, and i am somewhat lost in these instructions, but I am working right now on one of the Individual roles to complete this project,

this is my Cell phone #: 910-709-0884

PLEASE ... call me or Text me when you have time

i will be here waiting 

thank you

And so it began.

 

So I texted Jose about the project and instead of doing what a normal person would do and simply text back, he called me. I answered carefully, a tad confused and also slightly curious about what was waiting on the other line. According to Alert Carolina! Chapel Hill is currently underwater so I'm assuming we actually got cut off because it was storming.out..there... as Jose likes to say. 

I'm convinced his strange text style is due to a translation app, mostly because of the upside down question mark. 

 

I did this to myself. 

 

Jose attempted to call me to ask about the project on deadline day and I was at dinner with some friends so one of them picked up, pretending to be me and she acted as if it was too loud to hear him and hung up. He then texted me, I guess confused about who he was calling.

Another awkward part about online classes: No one knows the name I go by. I have to remember to use Merriam at all times or people will think that I am an imposter.

 

Judging by the failing grades I've gotten on all of the exams, on a scale of 1-10 how much do you think I care about this group project?

 

So... you've never emailed a teacher before?

This is when Jose asked me to BS citations- something that is actually really difficult when you didn't write the paper and slightly a risk to your academic career if you get in trouble for the "plagiarism" or uncited work. I went ahead and did it to get him off my back.

Instead of going to bed after submitting the project like a normal person would, he called me and asked me to look over it all, stating he "tried his absolute best". Jose, what's done is done. Begging goes on and on until I can't stop laughing and my aunt takes my phone, telling Jose that I have a bed time I need to attend to. He says he understands and the call is over- thank God.

 

Jose calls me the next day and proceeds to be buddy buddy with me about how he also has a bed time and asks me if I had gotten a chance to look over the project. NO. NO. NO. I hung up on him, oops sorry I'm not sorry- that's the difference between an online class and a regular one- you can hang up on it whenever you want.

"Sorry we got disconnected," an easy excuse since we had before. Given the grade I received on that exam, maybe I should have taken Jose up on his offer but why risk it? I wonder what happened to good ole' Armando on the exam this week.

Spin offs on Jose: