Ranting again
me: i got my history midterm back today
me: i got an 85 on it
me: i'm sort of pissed
me: i don't know if i should fight for points though... i'm kinda lazy
me: the final exam is thursday
me: and i've missed a lot of class now, so i'll probably do as "well" or worse
me: i wanted an A in the class
me: i thought i'd aced the midterm
me: there are no comments written on my exam
dg: i'm sorry...
me: ripley's trying to comfort me/tell me my grades here don't matter
me: but i'm worried they will
dg: do you think it'd be good to at least talk to the prof and understand the reason
dg: ?
dg: are you thinking about for med school (regarding the grades)?
me: yeah
me: (about grades)
me: and i think i would like to know...
me: hannah got an 88
me: and she said her answers were crap, that she looked back at it and it seems like english isn't even her first language
me: i wrote like half a page for each id, like an entire story, everything i remembered... and there's no explanation
me: for why i lost 2pts on the first 2 and 1 on the second (which incidentally i was less sure about)
dg: hm
dg: odd
me: it's just poopie because i think i'm pretty good at history... not like remembering dates or anything but like the stories and the causal relationships
me: that and the class totally sucks and i *should* be able to ace it
dg: but indu that's assuming that a prof who runs a class that totally sucks is going to be able to tell what a good exam is
dg: if they're running a class that bad, they're probably stupid with tests as well
me: *sigh* maybe
me: but it's my gpa that's suffering *pout*
dg: i know... and that sucks...
me: and my other grades this term won't be so hot either
me: i've heard everyone takes advanced I reading *twice*
me: like if that happens, clearly there's something wrong with the way they run the class
me: or write the exams or something
me: we got the last part of the midterm back today
me: a reading we had never seen before
me: by the time i got to it during the exam, i had like 15-20 minutes. i didn't even *read* it and tried to answer the questions by looking at the graphs. that's not reading!
me: it was worth 40 points, and i lost 21 of them just from questions i didn't have time to answer
me: and they were t/f
me: i could have just put true for all of them, without reading, and gotten most of them right!
me: and then for religion class
me: there's a final test and a final paper
me: i haven't had time to start the paper yet
me: but the final test (which doesn't count as an "exam" but is the only other part of our grade besides participation)
me: is online
me: and the questions come directly from the self-quizzes throughout the term
me: so if you printed out the self-quizzes *with the correct answers*
me: not only could you study for the final test
me: you could *use them while taking the test*
me: but i wouldn't do that
me: so everyone else is going to get 100% on it and i won't because i won't cheat
dg: but is that cheating, if its within the rules of the game, as they set it up?
me: it's not in the rules!
me: that's not what he wants you to do
dg: ok
dg: they're just stupid
me: i mean i guess i could ask him in class specifically if it's allowed
me: but guessing from his reaction to when ripley asked if she could have copies of the self-quizzes he'd already closed
me: that that wasn't his intention
dg: yeah
me: i know it's stupid and just that i'm used to a different way of learning in some cases
me: like ripley's in the listening class
me: and she got a D on the midterm because she just doesn't think like they do
me: like in explaining the contents of something she outlined like the concept
me: but they wanted like details
me: and 1) she just doesn't think like that 2) she doesn't think that's what important
me: so now, even as anal as she is about grades, she's like "whatever"
me: and i agree with that for her, definitely, but
me: i worry that my grades count
me: she's like "you're here for self-study, it's your last term as you're preparing to return to the states and pursue medicine. it has no relevance for med school"
me: i'm just worried it'll be seen as like a reflection of my character or something
me: *laughs*
me: geezus i haven't even started premed and listen to me
me: you sure you want to live with me?
dg: yes, of course i'm sure
dg: part of the problem with grades, especially in any social science or humanities class, is that its partially a test of your psychological skills
dg: (i.e. can you decipher what the prof wants and values)
dg: and that's always annoying because it has that subjective component
me: dude i wrote like exactly what i had written in my notes which is exactly what he said in lecture!
me: 8 out of 10 points
me: and the one on which i got 9 out of 10
me: i wasn't there for that lecture. i learned what it meant by googling it!
dg: yeah well maybe he doesn't like his lecture, or doesn't want you to say what he said
dg: people are weird and stupid, so who knows what they're thinking
dg: if they think at all
me: i almost want to tell him that and be like "are you saying i'd make better grades on your exams by just learning the stuff from the internet and not from you?"
me: or not make better grades but learn the stuff better
me: "better"
dg: yeah
me: ugh
me: i got an 85 on it
me: i'm sort of pissed
me: i don't know if i should fight for points though... i'm kinda lazy
me: the final exam is thursday
me: and i've missed a lot of class now, so i'll probably do as "well" or worse
me: i wanted an A in the class
me: i thought i'd aced the midterm
me: there are no comments written on my exam
dg: i'm sorry...
me: ripley's trying to comfort me/tell me my grades here don't matter
me: but i'm worried they will
dg: do you think it'd be good to at least talk to the prof and understand the reason
dg: ?
dg: are you thinking about for med school (regarding the grades)?
me: yeah
me: (about grades)
me: and i think i would like to know...
me: hannah got an 88
me: and she said her answers were crap, that she looked back at it and it seems like english isn't even her first language
me: i wrote like half a page for each id, like an entire story, everything i remembered... and there's no explanation
me: for why i lost 2pts on the first 2 and 1 on the second (which incidentally i was less sure about)
dg: hm
dg: odd
me: it's just poopie because i think i'm pretty good at history... not like remembering dates or anything but like the stories and the causal relationships
me: that and the class totally sucks and i *should* be able to ace it
dg: but indu that's assuming that a prof who runs a class that totally sucks is going to be able to tell what a good exam is
dg: if they're running a class that bad, they're probably stupid with tests as well
me: *sigh* maybe
me: but it's my gpa that's suffering *pout*
dg: i know... and that sucks...
me: and my other grades this term won't be so hot either
me: i've heard everyone takes advanced I reading *twice*
me: like if that happens, clearly there's something wrong with the way they run the class
me: or write the exams or something
me: we got the last part of the midterm back today
me: a reading we had never seen before
me: by the time i got to it during the exam, i had like 15-20 minutes. i didn't even *read* it and tried to answer the questions by looking at the graphs. that's not reading!
me: it was worth 40 points, and i lost 21 of them just from questions i didn't have time to answer
me: and they were t/f
me: i could have just put true for all of them, without reading, and gotten most of them right!
me: and then for religion class
me: there's a final test and a final paper
me: i haven't had time to start the paper yet
me: but the final test (which doesn't count as an "exam" but is the only other part of our grade besides participation)
me: is online
me: and the questions come directly from the self-quizzes throughout the term
me: so if you printed out the self-quizzes *with the correct answers*
me: not only could you study for the final test
me: you could *use them while taking the test*
me: but i wouldn't do that
me: so everyone else is going to get 100% on it and i won't because i won't cheat
dg: but is that cheating, if its within the rules of the game, as they set it up?
me: it's not in the rules!
me: that's not what he wants you to do
dg: ok
dg: they're just stupid
me: i mean i guess i could ask him in class specifically if it's allowed
me: but guessing from his reaction to when ripley asked if she could have copies of the self-quizzes he'd already closed
me: that that wasn't his intention
dg: yeah
me: i know it's stupid and just that i'm used to a different way of learning in some cases
me: like ripley's in the listening class
me: and she got a D on the midterm because she just doesn't think like they do
me: like in explaining the contents of something she outlined like the concept
me: but they wanted like details
me: and 1) she just doesn't think like that 2) she doesn't think that's what important
me: so now, even as anal as she is about grades, she's like "whatever"
me: and i agree with that for her, definitely, but
me: i worry that my grades count
me: she's like "you're here for self-study, it's your last term as you're preparing to return to the states and pursue medicine. it has no relevance for med school"
me: i'm just worried it'll be seen as like a reflection of my character or something
me: *laughs*
me: geezus i haven't even started premed and listen to me
me: you sure you want to live with me?
dg: yes, of course i'm sure
dg: part of the problem with grades, especially in any social science or humanities class, is that its partially a test of your psychological skills
dg: (i.e. can you decipher what the prof wants and values)
dg: and that's always annoying because it has that subjective component
me: dude i wrote like exactly what i had written in my notes which is exactly what he said in lecture!
me: 8 out of 10 points
me: and the one on which i got 9 out of 10
me: i wasn't there for that lecture. i learned what it meant by googling it!
dg: yeah well maybe he doesn't like his lecture, or doesn't want you to say what he said
dg: people are weird and stupid, so who knows what they're thinking
dg: if they think at all
me: i almost want to tell him that and be like "are you saying i'd make better grades on your exams by just learning the stuff from the internet and not from you?"
me: or not make better grades but learn the stuff better
me: "better"
dg: yeah
me: ugh
posted by Bibhatsu at 07:21
1 Comments:
Don't get stressed out over this. You have a long road ahead and you can't afford to get stressed out. It would be nice if life was perfect. Like dg said, in humanities it may be subjective and you wish you could read their mind. Anyway, time to move on and do the best you can with the rest.
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