This is something that even though it happened over three years ago, it still gets to me, because I was punished for being intelligent. Sophmore year of high school I was taking this science class which incorperated three areas of science: Astronomy, Geology, and Oceanography. Geology and Oceanography I know a fair amount about, but Asrtonomy, there is almost no end to what I know. Now to set things up, in high school I was a lazy shi head, I never did my work, I ended up dropping out because of my views on high school, which were it was a waste of my time, largly because I wasn't learning anything out of my required classes, except for maybe math, but I was shitty at math anyways, atleast when compared to how well I could do in my other classes. I basically had the potential to be the top of my grade, had I done the work. But oh fucking well, I hated being in the high school spotlight anyways. At any rate, when I was in this class, I pretty much had that attitude, it was a waste of my time. Near the end of the semester though, we were given a project to have done by the start of the final week of the semester, and it could do with any part of science in that course. I figured what the hell, It'd be fun, and I could talk about something I love, Astronomy. So I did my report on the live cycle of the sun and the solar system, which I already knew almost all there was to know about it, but I had to have atleast 7 sources of infomation, could have been anything but ourselves, obviously. That was the hardest part of the assignment was finding the sources cause of how much I already knew. It took me 2 weeks to find them. I also decided to add images to my report, those also took part of the two weeks. Well needless to say I wrote a very infomational, easy to understand, and damned good, and long report(19 pages with images, 15 without) at least for high school science. Well I spent 4 nights typing and/or hand writting everything to type up. Well I finish typing my report at school the morning it was due, my teacher let me do so cause I asked her about two days before mainly cause I didn't have a computer at the time. Well I type it, print it, and turn it in. Two days later she has finished the reports. She hands me mine, and all my hard work and effort amounts to a D. At first I was only a little upset, so I asked her why I got that grade. She said it was because I didn't list my sources, when I had put all 7 sources in THE FUCKING BACK OF THE DAMNED REPORT LIKE I WAS SUPPOSED TO I was very meticulous about my report. By the end of the day, my other three teachers said that I deserved a much higher grade than what I had gotten. She never changed it. I know for a fact that she looked up my sources, which I will admit didn't have much information in them because I didn't need that much information. The only area of my report she wrote a negative comment on was at the very end where I was basically saying what if this had, or would happen. Other than that she thought it was good. I am glad she wrote those in ink. I could tell that she had learned some new things from that report by the comments she wrote, thinking that I had researched them, till she had looked at my sources, finding that they didn't tell me much. Infact all the sources gave me was my front page(no I didn't plagerize), and the images. The rest was all from what I knew, and I knew I was right too. I personally think that it pissed her off to have a young lazy shit head like me, who never did his work, come in, write a very informative report, and have most of what he wrote come from what he knew. I have had a history of teaching my teahcers things when it came to astronomy, and except for that one, all of them were very pleased at it. Even if I am wrong about the real reason why I got the D on my report, am I wrong to be upset over being told that something I worked my ass of to do isn't even work shit? Story of my fucking life, I tell you. Work my ass off to accomplish something, and every fucking time I get told in ain't worth shit. I even work my ass of at work, and all I get is extra work as a reward. Sometimes I wonder why I even fucking try.