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[cornerofmadness]

Here's the first little bit of it. I got my grades back. I am so not happy with them. You've already heard about the incomplete that I'm fuming over. I ended up with a 3.0. I hate being so damn average (especially since I had a 4.0 last semester).

This semester was such a bitch. I had all A's on my community college curriculum tests so either I bombed the final (highly doubtful, it was open book after all) or despite rewriting the paper three times I ended up still getting a lower grade than I'm accustomed too on it. It's also a good learning experience for when I'm teaching. I hate turning in a paper at the end of the semester. You never get it back and you have no idea how you did. So I ended up with a B in this class.

Now I thought I was doing really good in the bio lab prep class. It's an undergrad class after all. I'm just taking it because hell half these techniques didn't exist when I was an undergrad back in the 80's. I thought I did well (despite a little ugliness in one of my DNA gels. And I was best at the proteins). I turned in my lab reports a head of time and changed them according to professor feedback. I was confident I got the A. I got a B instead and I'm not sure why. Maybe they listened to me seriously when I graded myself and I graded myself HARD on the math parts. Sigh.

3.0, how pathetic of me. (and watch a half dozen people yell at me for considering that score bad. I have terribly high standards for myself).

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*kicks you*

3.0 is GOOD.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

No it's not. That's like the worst I've ever done.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Over-achiever.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that is me

[annerose.livejournal.com]

Check with the instructor on the grade. From what you said it would have had to have been a very low grade on the paper to bring your whole grade down.

I've had grades get messed up by the computer. Put in a pass, student got a C, and the class was only Pass/No Pass. I had no way to know until the student came and asked me the next term. It's also easy to skip a line on the spreadsheet and enter the wrong grade. (Which is also why I compulsively check and recheck my final grades when submitting them.)

Most schools keep students work for 2 weeks to a year after the end of the term. Good luck!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I was planning on that but ended up out of state for two weeks. Maybe I'll drop in on them next week.

[annerose.livejournal.com]

Soon sounds good. At our school after about 4 weeks into the new term the student has to fill out forms and petition the academic council to change a grade. Huge load of paperwork. Before that, an instructor can change it with a signature.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the procedure is but since there is no grade but the final one I'm sure they decided that the changes in the lab book or how I worked in the lab weren't A material but I wish they would have said something sooner