Bad Lab Partners

>8th lab this semester
>engineer lab partners
>"What are the units?"
>"How do I calculate uncertainty?"
>"hurr durr human error"
>screaming inside
>mfw

weed out classes tend to happen after freshman year

Fucking engineers

Dude I had this fucking cunt called Faisal in chem lab,

When we asked what concentration chemical we used for a redox titration he literally made it up because he didn't know. We did all the calculations with the value he gave us too. Failed that lab...

You at oxford by any chance?

Nah aussie here

>How do I calculate uncertainty?
Well they don't explain this shit to us.

If that were the case, then why am I in junior year and there are still fucking BRAINLETS in my classes who pick up on things extremely slowly and ask retarded, trivial questions they would have known if they actually payed fucking attention, thus causing the professor to explain literally the exact same fucking thing three fucking times. Every. Single. Class.

Anyone have a similar experience?

>middle of molecular bio degree
>genetic engineering lab
>need to do gel electrophoresis to visualize and cut a DNA band from the stained gel, so we need to get as much of our dna sample into the gel as possible
>need to pipette ~20μl of our sample to an eppendorf tube before pipetting it into the electrophoresis well, so the pipetting of both the loading buffer and the sample have to be precise
>have some weird chink partner assigned by accident that spends all his time typing runes to his friends while I work
>Am about to do the pipetting, but he interjects and says it's his turn
>plsno.jpg
>he takes the sample tube and eppendorf tube from me, opens the caps, and tries to pipette
>as expected he tries to rush the pipetting EVEN THOUGH I TOLD HIM TO TAKE IT SLOW AND AS PRECISE AS POSSIBLE
>half the sample ends up on the walls of the tube, the bottom has too little sample
>he tries to suck the wall drops back into the pipette
>eyeswidened.jpg
>sucks air and sample back, pipettes it into the bottom sample despite my reservations, fills it with bubbles and starts cursing
>after my long attempts to break the bubbles by impact, he tries to pipette what is left into the gel well
>at this point, I had already talked to a few friends about letting me cut their own part of the gel to continue the experiment
>regardless, he tries to pipette it and misses and the sample slowly disappears in the vastness of the gel, just like my hope of a smooth practical session did
>no apologies, no nothing, just "oh well" and went back to his chink messages

These people don't belong in labs, it's not like it was our first lab, there were dozens of sessions before where you couldn't have just ignored basic fucking lab practice and pipetting skills. Even THEN your partner told you a hundred times how to do it correctly, but it had no effect. What. The. Fuck.

>go to school to learn
>nobody teaches
>people won't answer your questions
>class isn't even related to the required book
This is why people join academic frats and frats with test banks.