I'm thinking about taking a semester off....
Today I got my exam score for art history 205(history of film I). I though I had done really well, somewhere between a B+ and an A-. I was mistaken. I received the first C I have gotten on an exam since like sixth grade. I am displeased. Don't get me wrong, I know C's get degrees and all, they just don't get me MY degree. If I don't receive a B in this class I have to re-take it next year, one of those cute little things about classes within your major. I'm screwed.
I would drop the class and take a W if it were still possible. However, that is no longer an option. If I drop this class I will receive an F-9 (failed because I only attended the class for nine weeks). If I were to drop out now I would receive an F-9 for every class I'm enrolled in. I am very very stuck in this class. I have no choice but to keep going and keep trying even though I know that it's futile and I will most likely have to re-take it. I was depressed and crying about this (at work no less). Now I am just pissed off. I don't think my score on this exam was fair and I don't think that the criterion my score was based on was fair either. I wasn't graded on my knowledge of the topic (that I had covered),the grade was based on how he felt about my writing style. He feels that I need to be more concise and that I lack focus. He did not major in art history. He received his degree in English.
I have a meeting with my T.A. tomorrow to discuss his issues with my writing style that I don't think is going to go very well (mostly because I am feeling very defensive). I will then be spending the time I have before i go to work re-writing what I have done of my final paper in this class thus-far as I am sure when he reads it at tomorrow's meeting he will have plenty to take umbrage with.
I hope the meeting goes well. I hope the rest of this class goes well. If not...well...Maybe a semester off would give me some time to re-evaluate what it is I want to do.
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I would drop the class and take a W if it were still possible. However, that is no longer an option. If I drop this class I will receive an F-9 (failed because I only attended the class for nine weeks). If I were to drop out now I would receive an F-9 for every class I'm enrolled in. I am very very stuck in this class. I have no choice but to keep going and keep trying even though I know that it's futile and I will most likely have to re-take it. I was depressed and crying about this (at work no less). Now I am just pissed off. I don't think my score on this exam was fair and I don't think that the criterion my score was based on was fair either. I wasn't graded on my knowledge of the topic (that I had covered),the grade was based on how he felt about my writing style. He feels that I need to be more concise and that I lack focus. He did not major in art history. He received his degree in English.
I have a meeting with my T.A. tomorrow to discuss his issues with my writing style that I don't think is going to go very well (mostly because I am feeling very defensive). I will then be spending the time I have before i go to work re-writing what I have done of my final paper in this class thus-far as I am sure when he reads it at tomorrow's meeting he will have plenty to take umbrage with.
I hope the meeting goes well. I hope the rest of this class goes well. If not...well...Maybe a semester off would give me some time to re-evaluate what it is I want to do.
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