Did I deserve a zero?
Ok, so we had an assignment in my Organizational Psychology class to write a paper on Motivation Theory and compare a motivation theory to our own motivation to attend college. Now, keep in mind, I had the flu- so I missed a class. This class is where he apparently said that Frederick Herzberg's Hygiene theory(two factor theory) only applied to the workplace. Now, I was thinking of the University itself as a workplace and compared my desire to attend to Herzberg's theory. Because a college is an organization, I thought it applied. Also according to Herzberg, the second of two needs of a human being is to grow psychologically. It's about giving purpose to man's existence. So I felt like going to school was a reward in itself for me, etc. It's just that this guy- gave me a huge red ZERO because "it was stressed in class that this theory only applies to the workplace". That is all he wrote. But, isn't that a matter of opinion? I thought he asked for mine and that was the theory I most closely related to. I mean, I had a 97 percent average in the class giving me an A. I now have a low C because of this one grade. It really makes me upset and sad that it happened. My financial aid and car insurance counts on decent grades and I'm not allowed to have a C. So now, not only may i lose my financial aid, I will have to pay more in car insurance and probably not be able to attend school anymore because I get dropped from my program if I get less than a B and there isn't enough points to make it up since I only have two more classes to go before school is out.. I am just tired of shit like this happening to me. I know he was out sick, he might have been grumpy when grading, he might have assumed i was one of the kids that never showed up(since he doesnt know our names). But- still, I fucking did the assignment, I spent like 4 hours on it. I mean, he could have at least given me an F, I obviously had to be in class to know it was due and turn it in. And, he said we could draw from ANY motivational theory we wanted. Seriously, I'm so upset about it...I told my mom and I started crying. It's ironic that this paper was on motivation as what he did is so rude it's making me feel pretty unmotivated toward school.