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So, working in the lab, where the offices of my direct boss, Olcese (teacher of Mechanics of Soils and Pavements) are gives me a front row to every single person who wants to make one last attempt at asking for a recount. I don't know how you call it in the US, but over here you ask for a "reclamo" meaning, a complain. Which is that when they give you back the test or the exam (and there are scheduled hours for that) you have two days if it's a test and right that moment if it's a exam, to present a complain.
Now, that said, if you haven't presented the "complain", and later you realize you needed just one more point to pass the subject (or you don't go to pick up the test and still you want to present a complain because the grade was sent to your email and you realize you need another point to pass) THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE FOR YOU. Dude, people, get that. THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE FOR YOU. The rules of the university say that you're screwed, and Olcese was once upon a time a Dean of the whole Engineering Department and there's no way in freaking hell that he'll do anything against the rules. There just isn't. Deal with it. *sighs*
It doesn't bother me that much, mostly because I'm sitting here listening to guys come in and ask to be put through with Olcese so they can ask him to see if there's something to be done so they can pass. *shrugs* Some of them come in tears, some in desperation, and one who said it was the TA's fault (because the TA's help out during the tests, give you pointers and stuff) that he had gotten such a low grade in one of the biweekly tests, because the guy had given him the wrong equation to use. *sighs* I mean, really. SUCK IT UP. Deal with it. If you were stupid enough to think THAT equation would work in THAT situation, then you totally deserve to flunk. I mean it.
Now, that said, if you haven't presented the "complain", and later you realize you needed just one more point to pass the subject (or you don't go to pick up the test and still you want to present a complain because the grade was sent to your email and you realize you need another point to pass) THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE FOR YOU. Dude, people, get that. THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE FOR YOU. The rules of the university say that you're screwed, and Olcese was once upon a time a Dean of the whole Engineering Department and there's no way in freaking hell that he'll do anything against the rules. There just isn't. Deal with it. *sighs*
It doesn't bother me that much, mostly because I'm sitting here listening to guys come in and ask to be put through with Olcese so they can ask him to see if there's something to be done so they can pass. *shrugs* Some of them come in tears, some in desperation, and one who said it was the TA's fault (because the TA's help out during the tests, give you pointers and stuff) that he had gotten such a low grade in one of the biweekly tests, because the guy had given him the wrong equation to use. *sighs* I mean, really. SUCK IT UP. Deal with it. If you were stupid enough to think THAT equation would work in THAT situation, then you totally deserve to flunk. I mean it.