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Apr. 22nd, 2008 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordI am so pissed off at my Drugs and Society professor. I mentioned that on Friday everyone in class thought the test was the following Friday and he was like "What, no, it's totally Wednesday! We start presentations Friday!" which totally screwed up my plan for how I was going to get work done during the week. So today I get an e-mail from him and it's like "Oops! As it turns out, originally I planned for 9 group presentations, but we ended up having only 8 groups, which left us with one less day of presentations, meaning group presentations start Monday, not Friday! But we're still totally going to have our test on Wednesday and on Friday we'll just do class evaluations." asl;kjf UGH. The test TOTALLY could've been on Friday (as it originally was supposed to be!) and when I was in the middle of the e-mail, I was like "Oh god please let him have moved the test please please please." You have no idea how much added stress the test being on Wednesday caused me. I've had this feeling of dislike for him and the class for most of the semester that I haven't been able to figure out since he's usually pretty cool and the class isn't that intense, and then things like this happen and my gut reaction of dislike is TOTALLY validated.
Also, am I the only one who doesn't like getting letter grades for things instead of percentages? Like... final grade can be a letter grade, but it makes it really difficult figuring out what grade I have in the class if we're given letter grades on assignments. Like in English, I was trying to figure out what grade I have now that we were given our revisions back (A- on that, btw! Which I totally didn't deserve for the amount of effort I put into it and the amount of changes I made, but whatever, very happy. I didn't not expect my grade on that to be better than the first draft), and I'm like "Ok, so the first draft is worth 15%, and I got a B+ on that. So 15% of a B+ is... what?" I need percentages! This is only made worse when professors grade with half grades, like A/A- or A-/B+. Like, how the hell do I figure out my grade with that?
Anyways, yes, I am posting when I A) still haven't started writing my paper or collected any sort of evidence to support my thesis or even have written a thesis, and B) still haven't finished studying for my Drugs and Society test tomorrow. But I needed a short break from studying or else I was going to go crazy. And I needed to bitch about this stuff (more the first than the second). I promise my next post is not going to be about school at all, except possibly relief over everything this week being done.
Also, am I the only one who doesn't like getting letter grades for things instead of percentages? Like... final grade can be a letter grade, but it makes it really difficult figuring out what grade I have in the class if we're given letter grades on assignments. Like in English, I was trying to figure out what grade I have now that we were given our revisions back (A- on that, btw! Which I totally didn't deserve for the amount of effort I put into it and the amount of changes I made, but whatever, very happy. I didn't not expect my grade on that to be better than the first draft), and I'm like "Ok, so the first draft is worth 15%, and I got a B+ on that. So 15% of a B+ is... what?" I need percentages! This is only made worse when professors grade with half grades, like A/A- or A-/B+. Like, how the hell do I figure out my grade with that?
Anyways, yes, I am posting when I A) still haven't started writing my paper or collected any sort of evidence to support my thesis or even have written a thesis, and B) still haven't finished studying for my Drugs and Society test tomorrow. But I needed a short break from studying or else I was going to go crazy. And I needed to bitch about this stuff (more the first than the second). I promise my next post is not going to be about school at all, except possibly relief over everything this week being done.
