Geek alert.
So I downloaded the Josh Groban Christmas album. The guy's got a good voice, I'll give that to him. But is it bad that I'm actually angered by his rendition of 'I'll be home for Christmas'? I mean, the whole thing is splattered with little snippets of troops from Iraq wishing Merry Christmas to their families...because clearly they will NOT be home for Christmas. I know the song says 'if only in my dreams' and whatnot, but I still think it's a stretch, and it jars me when I hear it. It also pisses me off that he's glorifying the whole Iraq thing. I know people say 'support the troops, not the war'...fine, I get that. But I don't think the vast majority of people can distinguish the two, and frankly at Christmas I don't want to think about the war. Fine, you say, other people have family memebers over there and can't stop thinking of it...lucky them, Josh made a song just for them. I still don't have to like it. Maybe I'm being an ignorant and insensitive prat, but I really dislike that song.
So I am a geek in a big way. Marks were supposed to be released last night or this morning, and I was personally offended to find last night that the site capacity had been reached, and despite my best efforts, I couldn't actually get in to check my marks. This morning when I woke up before eight, I logically had an easier time. I'm really happy with the three of four that were posted. If the fourth is anywhere in the same realm as the first three, this semester will be the highest average of my university career. *does a dance*
As to the fourth mark, though...I honestly have no idea. See, the one that hasn't been posted is histology. A) Histology was the hardest class of the semester by a long shot, and B) there's the whole idea of the exam having been compromised...
Yeah that's right. That thing I said a while back that I'd vent about and then changed my mind and said I didn't have the energy to bother? The lab exam was written in two waves, and my friend and I wrote in the first one. When we came back and logged onto WebCT, lo and behold, the exam was posted there for all to see. So we complained to the profs and TAs and got a load of bullshit back from one TA trying to explain it away, but as far as I know beyond that, there's been mostly silence from their end. But considering the huff my prof got herself in from telling us how FUCKED we'd be if we even TRIED to email the exam to our friends while we were writing it, she should take the fact that she herself (or someone she is responsible for) essentially sent it to the ENTIRE CLASS somewhat seriously. I don't know.
So I'm hoping, in a way, that the delay in the posting of that mark is due to her trying to figure out how to deal with the fact that someone on her end screwed up ROYALLY. Really, the only completely fair option is to give everyone a perfect mark for that component. Believe it or not, if your prof doesn't show up to an exam, that's school policy. Now I know she obviously showed up, but the exam was compromised, and there is no way it would be fair to just give us all the marks we got. Moreover, it wouldn't be fair to just not have a lab component, because people like myself and my friend (and another huge chunk of the class, I'm sure) do better on lab exams than written exams: we count on the lab exams to balance out our marks. So it wouldn't be fair to just remove it completely (although in my case I'd be fine with that because I overcompensated when I studied and did crap on the lab, and I'm pretty sure I rocked the written).
The bottom line is that the second wave probably had access to that lab exam, or at least some people from the second wave did. I don't expect her to go as far as anything I've described above, but I do expect her to do something. We'll see, I guess. But in the mean time I just can't handle the fact that it's not posted. I swear, it's driving me INSANE.
*sigh* I'm such a geeeeeek!