I just want to help!

well, not really. i'm being forced to.

In my psych class today we had a pop quiz because about half to class didn't show up last thursday (i was one of the many that didn't go to class, OOPS) and the teacher was hoping to catch many students unawares. Luckily I knew that we were going to have a pop quiz today and I was prepared! I have a person on the inside. An informant, if you will. I was prepared, took the pop quiz and got a 100%, I was pleased. Especially because I thought I mixed up three and had gotten them wrong. I guess that means I didn't really know it, but I still got a good score so who cares if I really know it or not, I'll learn it in time for the test.

Ok, enough bragging, now on to the real point of the post. There is a girl that sits next to me that apparently missed last thursday as well. She got a pretty bad grade and the teacher wanted us all to get into groups to discuss what the correct answers were and why. I was grouped with Jennifer, as usual, and she had only missed one so we were done discussing in no time. But the girl that sits next to me was just sitting there so the teacher made me group up with her to discuss the answers. Fine, I don't mind helping. So I try to talk to the girl and she gets an attitude. "I don't need your help!" and "I bet you cheated" were the very first things she said to me. I have talked to this girl before and she's always like this, that's why I didn't want to group with her originally and waited until the teacher made me. Weren't people supposed to grow out of their "bratty" stage by this point in life? I can understand SOMETIMES being a pain in the ass, but all of the time?

I used to try to talk to this girl but she'd be rude and make mean remarks like calling me stupid or annoying. I don't think saying "hi" and trying to make small talk is very stupid or annoying. I also don't think that she should be so rude when i'm trying to help her (even though I didn't want to, but i didn't let it show). So what did I do instead? I tried to help at first, she was a bitch, so i stopped trying to help and we just then sat in silence for the next ten minutes. It was fun stuff.

So, everyone, how would you handle such a situation? Because I bet I'm going to have to group and "help" her again at some point in the future and I need some ideas on how to approach it.

back to my mini-essay.

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