I'm full of fail.
I made a huge mistake in one of my classes. Instead of the A I was expecting to receive, I'll be LUCKY, and I mean EXTREMELY lucky, to receive a C. I'm preparing myself mentally for a D. (I've never gotten anything below a B, so this is pretty tough for me. I've never received anything lower than an A in a Spanish class.)
For some reason, I wrote down in my planner that the final exam was during finals week. .. Apparently, it was LAST WEEK. I missed it. I missed the "make-up exam day" because.. I didn't believe that I had missed any exams? I'm such an idiot. He'd told us to mark down a few days as days off in our schedule, and I fucked up big time and marked the exam day as one of the days off.
I realized what happened, today, and went up to him to frantically plead for another chance to take the make-up exam, or to be able to write a paper for SOME points, even just 50% maximum grade, but he refused. I've never been treated with such disdain by a professor before. I've always been at the top of the class, and clearly he thinks that I'm one of his worst students. He basically berated me for not caring enough to show up to take the exam, and being a slacker, etc. Missing those exam days also means that he can penalize me severely for each day I missed. (Up to 5% of my final grade for those classes.) Needless to say, he's not letting me take the make-up exam, or do anything to earn partial credit.
My grade has instantly dropped to a 75%. Let's hope I can do well enough on the final paper I turned in, and that he'll take a bit of mercy on me and give me a C. Not likely, though, after the way he talked to me.. he's going to be brutal in grading that paper.
Ugh.
Clearly I am not doing that well, juggling all of these classes and trying to be a comic artist at the same time.
/Venting over. Time to cry in my closet for a while.
For some reason, I wrote down in my planner that the final exam was during finals week. .. Apparently, it was LAST WEEK. I missed it. I missed the "make-up exam day" because.. I didn't believe that I had missed any exams? I'm such an idiot. He'd told us to mark down a few days as days off in our schedule, and I fucked up big time and marked the exam day as one of the days off.
I realized what happened, today, and went up to him to frantically plead for another chance to take the make-up exam, or to be able to write a paper for SOME points, even just 50% maximum grade, but he refused. I've never been treated with such disdain by a professor before. I've always been at the top of the class, and clearly he thinks that I'm one of his worst students. He basically berated me for not caring enough to show up to take the exam, and being a slacker, etc. Missing those exam days also means that he can penalize me severely for each day I missed. (Up to 5% of my final grade for those classes.) Needless to say, he's not letting me take the make-up exam, or do anything to earn partial credit.
My grade has instantly dropped to a 75%. Let's hope I can do well enough on the final paper I turned in, and that he'll take a bit of mercy on me and give me a C. Not likely, though, after the way he talked to me.. he's going to be brutal in grading that paper.
Ugh.
Clearly I am not doing that well, juggling all of these classes and trying to be a comic artist at the same time.
/Venting over. Time to cry in my closet for a while.