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how do I get in touch with a person at university?

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PlZZA · 14/11/2018 09:55

This is probably going to sound ridiculous of me but I’m at university, we’ve been assigned groupwork by the lecturer, you can either choose to sign up yourself online or the lecturer will force it. No one has signed up in my slot so it’s looking as though the lecturer will force people to over the week.

The thing is, even if she does - I don’t know who she would have set me up with. All the people I know from the class have taken slots already. The presentation is on Tuesday so it needs to be completed by then. I have a seminar on Friday so I suppose I could try and go around the class asking but the thought of that makes my skin crawl Sad and it’s not the most practical of ideas.

The whole thing is terrifying me - I hate groupwork, I hate presentations and I get so stressed when I think of this one - I’m both terrified of working with people and terrified of working it alone. We need to work together. I can email the student but I’m worried they’ll miss it or ignore it and we don’t have much time to practice. I can email the lecturer too but she’s not the most approachable person in the world - she makes me feel stupid 😅 which to be fair I am 😂

What, if anything, do I do? The most obvious thing would be to email them but I’m worried they’ll miss an email or just not get back to me. Try to find them on Facebook? Suck it up and try to find them in the seminar? All I can imagine is me not hearing back off of them and then either having to muddle through a ten minute presentation by myself or having to help someone else muddle through it. I’ve been having some really bad anxiety and have made myself ill over this Sad

Stupid thing is, it’s not even graded, it doesn’t go toward my overall mark... I am so tempted to just skip it but the good student in me says no...

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UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 14/11/2018 09:57

How do you know that they won't reply if you email? Just get on with it!

chickhonhoneybabe · 14/11/2018 10:01

Do you have a group FB or other way to contact all of the class? If so send a message asking if everyone has managed to form a group, or ask if you could join one as you’re not in one.

Or if you’ve no way of contacting them ask them on Friday in person. I’m assuming tho because the deadline is next week the work was set sometime ago, if so you might struggle with joining a group at the last minute so I’d speak to your personal tutor or academic tutor.

chickhonhoneybabe · 14/11/2018 10:03

Message them today if no response ask in class on Friday and if no joy then speak to the tutor on Friday so at least you’ve got the weekend to work on it, and in future try not to leave it so late as this will cause you more anxiety.

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ClaudiaWankleman · 14/11/2018 10:04

If they don’t reply to you then ask the tutor to put you in touch. Meanwhile prepare parts of the presentation and plan out where you will need to collaborate so that you can hit the ground running.

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