Monday, April 24, 2006
Sometimes My Mind Plays Tricks On Me
Argh. What a basket case of a school I go to. I don't think I'd ever contested a mark before now, and here I am doing it for the second and third times in a month. This may reflect that I am simply not doing as good a job as I used to (not out of the question, I have been sillier this year than last year), or it may be that my professors and TAs this year are just generally more inconsistent than they were last year. One of the marks is mostly so low because I didn't report my own attendance in the time frame that the professor and TA had in mind, even though there was no deadline given. I really need to do something about these, because these two marks have the power to make my GPA even more unimpressive and my head a very bad place to be. That said, it is my experience and observation that the squeaky-but-not-rude wheel gets the grease: usually if you care enough to make the argument respectfully, you can get stuff done for you.
Nevertheless, a dispiriting kind of way to start the third rainy morning in a row, and also my third morning in a row without much voice to speak of (ha ha). This is just as well as there is nobody in the apartment to talk to. Seriously, though, Mother Nature is a tease. 23C one week, and then BAM! Three days of chill and rain and misery. That it coincided precisely with two days of quarantiney hermitdom is something I appreciate, though. Nothing better than not being fit to leave the house when it looks so inhospitable outside.
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If you are protesting anything from GPE and LAW I'm With you!! AHHH!!!!
What do you say we gather a cabal of disgruntled students and storm Obi's office...then on to Mullen's?
Jacob and Emily, I am totally with you on that! Especially on the storming of Mullen's office...I think we can definitely reason with Obi, but Mullen...
Let me know when and where the cabal is uniting and I shall be there.
Emily you are an absolute genious, when are we planning this raid (which shall rival the raid on Entebbe, with hopefully the same success)
It's nice to know I'm not the only one complaining. Especially because all semester my grades have been fine, and suddenly they've fallen off when I've been doing more work on school than I had been! It makes no sense.
Update: Prof. Mullen e-mailed me back and she's changed my participation grade (to a 7/10 for some reason... late penalty?) but it hasn't affected my letter grade. So apparently I bombed the exam, which is bizarre because I felt like I knew exactly what I was doing the entire time. ARGH. Why this week?
Im having the same problems hun. Even though I got a C on the Final i have a final grade of a D+...wtf. Anyway Ive written numerous emails to the prof and she has now sent me to the TA. I let Elaine know about whats going on and she said that if their ridiculous behaviour continues to file for an official review of the grade. I think everyone who has a question about grades with this prof should let elaine know so that she is aware of how big this fucking problem is.
I also got D+ in Mullen's class. While I will admit my performance certainly was not amazing, it sure as hell was not that insanely shitty.
I talked to a former papmite that also took Mullen's class with us and she also got a D+.
Keep us posted Rachael. I'll go talk to Elaine tomorrow too...I've already talked to Elaine earlier on about Mullen's incompetence...and according to her then, there was wide speread complaints about Mullen.
Courage my friends! We'll get through this bureaucratic bullshit soon.
Man. It sucks that everyone's having this problem, but it's also nice to know I'm not alone in this.
Well, not everyone is having this problem, I managed to dodge the bullet by getting the hell out of Mullen's class and into Calculus. Go figure that might have actually HELPED my grade!
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