it don't make no sense.

i can't remember a day in which i felt so utterly helpless.

a friend of mine is battling the academic (maybe even personal) bias of a uni prof. in a midterm the prof gave a particular student a 15 year leeway in their answer (marked correct) when my friend was only off by 3 years in comparison (marked as incorrect).

so how would you justify that action? could you?

i mean, where would you even start?

"hi prof, i think you've shown personal bias in marking ______ 's paper, but i was wondering if you could please remark it? if not, could you maybe explain why you don't like me?"

"so you're not going to remark it? but you'll explain to me why you have a bias against me? wow! that'll be great! thanks!"

ok. don't think that would happen anytime soon. but that's something i definitely cannot get it out of my head. its also something i can't do much about. not right now. not in where i'm standing. nor would i even know where to begin to fight a subjective battle such as this.

* though this event lingers abit on the negative side, i'm not feeling negative / bitter / depressed but just discouraged and feeling for my wounded friend. i just can't fully accept yet that this indeed happens right before our very eyes all the time but just makes itself so much more evident in times of midterms /exams / classes.

definitely more on this later.