Posted by Racer on August 31, 2006, at 21:00:24
In reply to Re: Thank you, GG! Yay, Racer!, posted by llrrrpp on August 30, 2006, at 21:36:31
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> Racer, your prof must really enjoy having you in class. It's SOOO much easier to grade an A student than a C student. Everytime she gets to grade one of your assignments, I bet she sighs relief. Oh good- this is Racer's paper. No stress here. check check, comment, comment, check, minus, comment. yep. solid work.lol! I promised myself years back, no more classes where I had to write Perfect Essays. This was a math class ;-) But thank you.
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> congratulations :)
> And by the way, I would have meant it EVEN if you had gotten a B, because you tried your hardest, and that's what matters most. Everyone's best achievement comes at a different level. Your best achievement was an A (life is great when that happens). Maybe you try your darndedness and get a B next time, but the fact that you don't blow off your work and gave it your serious effort is what matters, in my humble and headached opinion.
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> -llAnd this kinda made me squirm -- see, that's my problem: I don't have a very varied GPA, which is why I get so damned obsessive about it all. In fact, until this spring, when I was taking fertility drugs that made me completely crazy -- we called it "riding the hormonacoaster" -- I'm not sure I'd ever gotten a B on an exam! Now I know I can survive that, although I'm still unhappy about it. (I sat there crying in the exam period, ready to lay down on the floor and just wait for the ambulance. That was a very BAD time of it. Only lasted about half a day, but made me awfully happy to hear the fertility doctor say we couldn't use that one anymore...)
I've been told I'd live through the experience of getting a B, but I have no proof that's true. That's why my T says it would be good for me to experience it.
My husband told me that he kinda wishes I would get a B, so that I will find out that people still love me. I see there's a pattern forming... Fallsfall said about the same thing... I think you did, too...
But, this time, I don't have that issue. I still think the lecturer got my grade wrong, but I won't argue with it. At least, not too much...
(OMG! Way back when I was in college the first time, twentymumble years ago, I protested a grade once. HORRIBLE professor, he only assigned 8 pages for the entire semester -- IN SOPHOMORE COMPOSITION!!! I protested my grade, and the deans laughed at me! I said I certainly hadn't earned an A, since I hardly wrote anything for the semester. The dean I was talking to was funny about it, but the other dean, who was in the room, turned around laughing and said, "You're protesting an A? I've never heard of that before!" Although, I figured I should be the one to protest, since it was clear it wasn't that I just wanted a higher grade. I only wanted that guy to be checked into. I knew I could write, after all...)
OK. I'm done now.
Thank you, Lurps, for your sweet reply. I'll email you that spice cake. With some nice gravy to go with it.
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