group bad luck

I always have bad luck with groups. And it seems that it is not about to stop now. Though previous times,.. the end result was good.

This time, my Final Year Project group went to do
research on potential topics,
emailed professors,
made phone calls to professors,
made appointment with professors ,
knocked on professors' door many times (most of the time professors not in),
Discussed topics with professors,
listen to professors' counter proposal,
Analysed each professor and their topic,
Decided on professor and topic
Went to talk to him again
confirmed with him that we are doing with him
happily go to register on website

Only to find an email from the professors after few days telling us that he promised another group beforehand...
And we rejected another good professor already... now left nowhere... WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

Professor mind set?

How will you define a hard question?
Is it a question that need a clear understanding of what was taught?
or is it the professors' idea of questions that involve things that were not taught at all?

THAT is the whole problem. Ever since last semester, it is a frustrating experience when attempting to do tutorials. There will be terms, methods, relationships etc that students were not taught.

Then the professor will come happily for seminar and give a lecture. After that, he will discuss the previous tutorial of previous lecture. When he was explaining a hard question that students cannot do, he will say some things that make students feel even worse .Eg: 'eh? why you cannot do? but I just mentioned in the lecture just now.' Got the point? a tutorial which was supposed to be based on previous week's lecture, have concepts that were only taught in this week.

The worst thing is that there will always be some mysterious creature (definitely not human) who will be able to obtain a solution to the questions.

URGH!!!!! damn it. I may have to execute my own study style and quit following what others are doing... sigh.....