I am that guy.

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In one of my classes, we have lab, and it just so happens that there are only four girls this time around. (You get used to this thing when you're an engineering major.) Two girls partnered together, one partnered with her friend, and I was stuck with whoever dared to sit in the front of the lab room. I like to sit in the front so I can see what the TA's are doing. I don't really make friends, see, so I get used to picking up whoever wants to be my sitting buddy.

Then one guy sits down with his stuff and asks me, "Hey, do you want to get the PC because we'll need it for our lab." I thought, well, yeah, we will need it later to compile the data and stuff, but I can get it right now. I guess this guy's my partner...?

I go to the back and grab a PC, wires, charger, and all, come back, find my new "partner's" seat empty, and presume he went to put his stuff into the cubbies. Then the TA starts talking, and I wonder where my partner is, but whatever. When it's time to start the lab, someone behind me taps my shoulder, and he asks, "Do you want to be partners?" 

I look back to my "partner's" seat and find it still empty. "But--he--what the heck...?" And I see my "partner" at a different table with a different lab partner. 

I see how it is! 

"Sure, let's do this," I say and flip open my lab notebook complete with the introduction and procedure written out in ink, mind you, spread out the printed lab handout, and fling on my lab gear. Before telling my partner to do anything, I grab all of the little beakers from the lab cart, take the only roll of labeling masking tape, and fill up the beakers with liquids. I take all of the paperclips in the process and skedaddle back to my station. I tell my new lab partner to go weigh the paperclips (always minding my manners and saying "Please"), and I go calibrate the pH meter. We work like clockwork, and even though my partner completely admitted right from the beginning that he didn't read the lab handout, we are the first ones done with all of our data. At the end of the section, my lab is halfway finished, charts and data filled out, station clean, boom. We are the best. 

I am the best. 

So the next time someone wants to ditch me and go for another guy, they'll know what they were missing out on. Mwe heh heh heh. I will work hard to be the best lab partner there ever was this term. I take good care of my lab partners. I don't wait for no one. They will know the wrath that is me. 

I think the cutest thing of all is that my partner's like this mature-looking 6-foot plus guy and he still writers his lab reports like he's in high school. Like, dude, no TA wants to read 60 reports of how to calibrate pH meters. It's cute. I guess it's because he's never been in an upper division engineering lab before, but I can't help but find it all amusing how he goes about writing the procedure. I am his upperclassman.

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Awsomeve123
wow... I just do things by myself. it still gets done before others. I'm bad with people.