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Got a D, and C- on those papers. Apparently we were supposed to include sources. I don't even feel like an idiot for losing a bunch of points for that, because it's not a mistake I've ever made before. The syllabus really wasn't clear about it. I do feel stupid for not realizing you had number the pages, but still
"The paper assignment is designed to allow students the opportunity to explore topics of interest to them at greater depth than normal classroom discussion might allow. The papers will be graded BOTH on writing quality and on content. Papers with major mechanical flaws will be returned, ungraded, to the student for re-writing (and a substantial penalty assessed). Ungraded papers will revert to a "0" if they are not resubmitted. Students can always ask the instructor for assistance before the due date.
The content of the papers should propose a topic or thesis suitable for a five page paper. Then analyze that topic, discussing, if appropriate, competitive interpretations, with suitable examples, and draw conclusions from the material presented. These papers are NOT meant to be major research papers but material drawn from other sources MUST be appropriately cited. "
I don't see anything there that says you have to cite your information. I assume that bit at the end was in reference to quotations. Just about every writing assignment I've ever had has had a 'don't plagiarize, cite quotations' clause, but if we were being graded on citing where the material we were paraphrasing (because that's all a paper like this is; paraphrasing someone else's info) came from, that would be different. It says right there in the second sentence, 'papers will be graded BOTH on writing quality and content.'. Nothing about requiring a source for literally everything you write. Mock is a nice guy, but I question his abilities as a teacher. He repeats himself a lot, but judging by my quiz scores, he seldom repeats things that are actually important. It'd be nice if he were a little more consistent with telling us 'THIS WILL BE ON THE QUIZ'. Bleh.
Didn't wake up until 6:30pm today. Missed both of my Cleveland classes this week. I think that brings me to like 7 absenses, counting the first one which shouldn't count. I don't think I missed any of the 'mandatory attendance' days though, so hopefully I'll get a little slack there. Not 100% on whether or not I deserve it, but like, whatever. I lost my Soft Bank phone, which isn't exactly a big deal, but it was my other alarm clock. I need to get Peter to go with me to HEY, or Tokyo Leisure Land on the weekend. I probably left it in one of those places. It's been a few days at this point, but I feel like if they had it, and I couldn't even tell them what my phone number was (and I can't. not even close. no idea at all) they probably would be suspicious.
So yeah, I stayed in bed until like 7:05pm, when it dawned on me that if I raced to Tamachi, I might be able to get to that bank I'm able to use before they shut down the atm. I was able to get there with 5 or so minutes to spare. Totally would've figured if they closed at 7:30 or 7:45, but whatever, I won this round, can't complain. Little victories. I went to the stupid Cafe across the street to celebrate by paying 610円 for a crappy chocolate scone, and medium matcha latte. The latte was good at least, but not worth the price. The woman laughed at me when I responded to her asking which size I wanted with 'hai'. I was tired, and not paying attention, usually Japanese store employees are grossly apologetic about your mistakes. I guess even Japan's cafe's are pretentious. I felt super out of place in there, everyone else was dressed nice and looked like they had a life. Bleh, whatever. Was just trying to break up the routine a little...
Went to Akihabara afterward. Wanted to get some action on my Jeffry card before leaving Japan. Played a little VF5 at Tokyo Leisure Land, and beat some scrubby Kage who was somehow a Hunter, but only had like 15 matches on his card, and only 3 of them were wins. That in mind I came dangerously close to losing at first, but whatever, I figured it out. Got some McDonald's after that, and went to Club Sega. I went to the less good one first, only to find they're down to two VF5 cabs. I could've sworn they had at least 3 or 4 setups last time. Sad. I don't get how there's only room for multiple VF setups at one Club Sega, when it's so busy there all the time.
I went to said better Club Sega afterward, and had some good matches. Challenged some Pai with my Jeffry and lost. Then I tried using Jean, and won although the guy somehow switched to Sarah (no idea how you do that...maybe it's a cell-phone thing? So you don't have to carry a bunch of cards around?), then Jacky, then back to Pai. I won 3 out of 5, I can definitely live with that. Then I went and beat some OTHER scrubby Hunter Kage with Jeffry (at least I hope it wasn't the same guy. He'd probably be creeped out.), and played Knockout Trial for a while, because apparently no one will challenge a low ranking Jeffry. After switching back to Jean, I was immediately challenged by some barbarian rank Lei-Fei. I lost like 5 times in a row to him, but almost every match went down to the wire. It was kind of ridiculous how I didn't manage to take even one. Two of them started with me sweeping the first two rounds, and most of the third round only to have him turn it around. What a bummer. I kept dropping combos at key moments too. It's the worst when I land a knee launcher, but hit 9 too early and instead of doing 9KG I get 6KG or jumping K or something stupid like that.
Bleh, I can land Jeffry's toe kick splash mountain really consistently against the computer at least. It's deceptively easy. It's just so slow that you keep thinking, 'it can't be this slow, I should do it faster, yeah, that's the problem.' NO, it really is that slow. You wait until his crouching animations visibly starts. Do not try to anticipate it, wait until you see it or it won't work.
"The paper assignment is designed to allow students the opportunity to explore topics of interest to them at greater depth than normal classroom discussion might allow. The papers will be graded BOTH on writing quality and on content. Papers with major mechanical flaws will be returned, ungraded, to the student for re-writing (and a substantial penalty assessed). Ungraded papers will revert to a "0" if they are not resubmitted. Students can always ask the instructor for assistance before the due date.
The content of the papers should propose a topic or thesis suitable for a five page paper. Then analyze that topic, discussing, if appropriate, competitive interpretations, with suitable examples, and draw conclusions from the material presented. These papers are NOT meant to be major research papers but material drawn from other sources MUST be appropriately cited. "
I don't see anything there that says you have to cite your information. I assume that bit at the end was in reference to quotations. Just about every writing assignment I've ever had has had a 'don't plagiarize, cite quotations' clause, but if we were being graded on citing where the material we were paraphrasing (because that's all a paper like this is; paraphrasing someone else's info) came from, that would be different. It says right there in the second sentence, 'papers will be graded BOTH on writing quality and content.'. Nothing about requiring a source for literally everything you write. Mock is a nice guy, but I question his abilities as a teacher. He repeats himself a lot, but judging by my quiz scores, he seldom repeats things that are actually important. It'd be nice if he were a little more consistent with telling us 'THIS WILL BE ON THE QUIZ'. Bleh.
Didn't wake up until 6:30pm today. Missed both of my Cleveland classes this week. I think that brings me to like 7 absenses, counting the first one which shouldn't count. I don't think I missed any of the 'mandatory attendance' days though, so hopefully I'll get a little slack there. Not 100% on whether or not I deserve it, but like, whatever. I lost my Soft Bank phone, which isn't exactly a big deal, but it was my other alarm clock. I need to get Peter to go with me to HEY, or Tokyo Leisure Land on the weekend. I probably left it in one of those places. It's been a few days at this point, but I feel like if they had it, and I couldn't even tell them what my phone number was (and I can't. not even close. no idea at all) they probably would be suspicious.
So yeah, I stayed in bed until like 7:05pm, when it dawned on me that if I raced to Tamachi, I might be able to get to that bank I'm able to use before they shut down the atm. I was able to get there with 5 or so minutes to spare. Totally would've figured if they closed at 7:30 or 7:45, but whatever, I won this round, can't complain. Little victories. I went to the stupid Cafe across the street to celebrate by paying 610円 for a crappy chocolate scone, and medium matcha latte. The latte was good at least, but not worth the price. The woman laughed at me when I responded to her asking which size I wanted with 'hai'. I was tired, and not paying attention, usually Japanese store employees are grossly apologetic about your mistakes. I guess even Japan's cafe's are pretentious. I felt super out of place in there, everyone else was dressed nice and looked like they had a life. Bleh, whatever. Was just trying to break up the routine a little...
Went to Akihabara afterward. Wanted to get some action on my Jeffry card before leaving Japan. Played a little VF5 at Tokyo Leisure Land, and beat some scrubby Kage who was somehow a Hunter, but only had like 15 matches on his card, and only 3 of them were wins. That in mind I came dangerously close to losing at first, but whatever, I figured it out. Got some McDonald's after that, and went to Club Sega. I went to the less good one first, only to find they're down to two VF5 cabs. I could've sworn they had at least 3 or 4 setups last time. Sad. I don't get how there's only room for multiple VF setups at one Club Sega, when it's so busy there all the time.
I went to said better Club Sega afterward, and had some good matches. Challenged some Pai with my Jeffry and lost. Then I tried using Jean, and won although the guy somehow switched to Sarah (no idea how you do that...maybe it's a cell-phone thing? So you don't have to carry a bunch of cards around?), then Jacky, then back to Pai. I won 3 out of 5, I can definitely live with that. Then I went and beat some OTHER scrubby Hunter Kage with Jeffry (at least I hope it wasn't the same guy. He'd probably be creeped out.), and played Knockout Trial for a while, because apparently no one will challenge a low ranking Jeffry. After switching back to Jean, I was immediately challenged by some barbarian rank Lei-Fei. I lost like 5 times in a row to him, but almost every match went down to the wire. It was kind of ridiculous how I didn't manage to take even one. Two of them started with me sweeping the first two rounds, and most of the third round only to have him turn it around. What a bummer. I kept dropping combos at key moments too. It's the worst when I land a knee launcher, but hit 9 too early and instead of doing 9KG I get 6KG or jumping K or something stupid like that.
Bleh, I can land Jeffry's toe kick splash mountain really consistently against the computer at least. It's deceptively easy. It's just so slow that you keep thinking, 'it can't be this slow, I should do it faster, yeah, that's the problem.' NO, it really is that slow. You wait until his crouching animations visibly starts. Do not try to anticipate it, wait until you see it or it won't work.