Television Without Pity- the best way to get caught up when you miss an episode of your fave show.
Meanwhile, I hid in bed most of today. I got crushing news yesterday and I just... needed the downtime. Okay, so it wasn't crushing it was infuriating and made me scream. A lot. There's nothing I can do to fix it so mostly I just have to breathe and accept and it's not so bad becasue at least I have a back-up plan and that's more than most can say.
What happened? Well, my teacher failed me. It serves me right for not double-checking stuff that got handed back to me, but the day in question I was leaving class early with an asthma attack that all but sent me to the ER. So I was a little preoccupied. She hadn't written a grade on the assignment in question and I didn't check. ... She hadn't graded it. Thus it was an F. An F that ate like 30% of my grade.
Things happen. I can't change it, so I'm accepting it. Luckily for me I was double-majoring so I can safely hold onto my Spanish major and drop my IDM to a minor- meaning that I don't have to take digital photography this summer. YAY.
Still. I failed because of clerical error. I am not amused.
The class was set up as a group internship. I did stellar on all the internship bits, and I've got an invite to interview with the client we worked for and freedom to put them as references. ... yet I failed the class. Does this sound remotely right?
But, like I said, I got the experience and the references for my resumee. I have some really good stuff for a portfolio and... well, that's what matters outside of the world of GPA. I'm just pissed off that I failed on something this DUMB. I should have checked it, but I couldn't breathe and the oxygen issue was somewhat pressing... and by the time the nebulizer stuff wore off... i was on other matters.
Oh well. My Spanish major is the one I've put more energy and more drive into and I think in all, I want it more.
... Plus no digital photography this way. i.e. no driving up and back to CollegeTown 3 times a week during the summer. More hours for working. More hours to play. More hours to work on my Spanish Independent Study.
And yes, yes I could retake the course. But I am graduating in December if it kills me. I don't care, I will not put it off another year.
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Sending sekrit poison ivy spores to the stoopid teacher who handed back an assignment without a grade on it, then assumed you'd figure it out while you were fighting to breathe. Sheesh.
The best part of the conversation was this:
Her: "Well, I sent out a fail slip at midterms."
Me: o.O "... I never got one."
Her: ... "I don't send them out personally. I send it to the university."
Me: "But, um, they didn't send me one."
Her: "Oh, dear. But still. You've failed. I just thought you didn't care."
(now, this is a class of 12 students where she worked with us all pretty closely. Hello? She never thought to mention anything? At all? Ever?)
Me: "..."
Her: "I did think it was odd. I mean, you were in my class last summer and you did so well. Your work was wonderful and ... What's your major?"
Me: "Until just now I was double majoring in Spanish and IDM. Now it's Spanish."
Her: "Oh, that explains it. You just weren't as focused."
Me: "Uh-huh."
Advertising can be a soul-sucking industry. Maybe one day you'll be glad you don't work in it.
Hope your parents take it better than you expect. Much better!
In my first year I missed an exam (it was at 9am... thought it had been set for 2) but I was lucky and got it deferred to the end of the summer session by petitioning it. The only bad thing was that I had forgotten everything I had learned that year by the time August came around!
So there's really nothing you can do? :(
My advisor is also the department head and she was frustrated too, but it's a case of she-said-she-said and there's nothing to do really. I could fight it but it wouldn't change the final grade.
No, Somebody is putting process before learning.
While its good you seem to be taking it in stride, there are processes for these kind of things. Talk to your advisor or the department chair.
Academia loves its hierarchies, use it to your advantage. You ultimately not prevail but you may feel better if you at least try.
I talked to my advisor who is also the department head but there's not much to be done when it's a student's word against the teacher's. She was just happy that it wasn't going to ruin my plans entirely. As she said, the real world cares that I have the knowlege, not that I got the letter grade. But I brought the matter to her attention, and I know it's not the first issue anyone's ever had with this particular professor (who is kind of notoriously erratic/prone to favoritism) so maybe there can be something done when the next student has a problem.