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I got straight A's! :D
I was expecting A's in Modern Fiction and Cultural Studies, but was pleasantly surprised by the other two. My Desktop Publishing class was with that Dr. B I've complained about before. She's a very weird grader, and will usually take a ton of points off for something that was not on the rubric and that she never talked about--for instance, a lot of people got points off of their English Department promotional posters because the subjects in their photos weren't dressed professionally enough (it's a design class, not a photography or marketing class). Despite that I managed to get low A's or high B's on all my other projects, but I was floored when our group got the textbook assignment grade in. She gave us a 99%. The one point we missed? It was for my cover, because all the information was on the back (where information generally goes). I think she just didn't want to give 100%, although I'm a little annoyed that she took the point away from my page and couldn't think of a better thing to pick on. But I'm pretty excited at getting an A in that class, and that is the last design class I will ever have to take with her.
I am completely surprised by my American Literature grade. This is the class where I turned in a horrible first draft of my paper, got a note asking to see the prof in conference, and then forgot to sign up for the conference. She had notes all over the syllabus saying that she'd drop a letter grade for messing up various aspects of that paper, and I figured that I'd messed up enough to drop two letter grades. Plus, I also screwed up the essay section of the midterm--I wrote an okay essay, but I kept accidentally calling Irving "Hawthorne." And my participation grade had to be awful because I never talked, but I think she ended up not grading anyone on that because we were a really shy class. But I put a lot of work into the second draft of that paper and really improved it, and then I wrote some stellar essays during my final exam, and I guess it paid off. I won't know what grade I got on the final paper until I get back to school next week. I'm really curious.
I was expecting A's in Modern Fiction and Cultural Studies, but was pleasantly surprised by the other two. My Desktop Publishing class was with that Dr. B I've complained about before. She's a very weird grader, and will usually take a ton of points off for something that was not on the rubric and that she never talked about--for instance, a lot of people got points off of their English Department promotional posters because the subjects in their photos weren't dressed professionally enough (it's a design class, not a photography or marketing class). Despite that I managed to get low A's or high B's on all my other projects, but I was floored when our group got the textbook assignment grade in. She gave us a 99%. The one point we missed? It was for my cover, because all the information was on the back (where information generally goes). I think she just didn't want to give 100%, although I'm a little annoyed that she took the point away from my page and couldn't think of a better thing to pick on. But I'm pretty excited at getting an A in that class, and that is the last design class I will ever have to take with her.
I am completely surprised by my American Literature grade. This is the class where I turned in a horrible first draft of my paper, got a note asking to see the prof in conference, and then forgot to sign up for the conference. She had notes all over the syllabus saying that she'd drop a letter grade for messing up various aspects of that paper, and I figured that I'd messed up enough to drop two letter grades. Plus, I also screwed up the essay section of the midterm--I wrote an okay essay, but I kept accidentally calling Irving "Hawthorne." And my participation grade had to be awful because I never talked, but I think she ended up not grading anyone on that because we were a really shy class. But I put a lot of work into the second draft of that paper and really improved it, and then I wrote some stellar essays during my final exam, and I guess it paid off. I won't know what grade I got on the final paper until I get back to school next week. I'm really curious.