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Posted by Racer on August 29, 2006, at 15:13:34
Classes started up again yesterday. I only have the one class on campus, the other is online. The one class on campus is taught by the same lecturer as the summer math class I just finished. She said we could call her late last week for our grades. She told me I could come by her office and see my final exam, and get my grade.
I haven't done either of those things.
Today I finally emailed her, asking for my grade. She just emailed me back, but I'm too afraid to open it. I know it's going to be awfully close, and I can't stand to see it.
I know, and my T tells me that it's going to be OK to get a B. She says she thinks it would be very good for me to get a B.
I'm too afraid to open the damned email.
I guess it's better than finding out in person, and crying in front of her.
Posted by Racer on August 29, 2006, at 16:37:54
In reply to I'm a complete coward (grade related), posted by Racer on August 29, 2006, at 15:13:34
GG held my hand, and I opened the email with my grade. Turns out it wasn't close, so maybe I need to be feverish and throwing up before every final...
I did get an A this time.
And the instructor said she was glad I'd signed up for her class this semester, too.
Posted by Jost on August 30, 2006, at 2:48:01
In reply to Thank you, GG!, posted by Racer on August 29, 2006, at 16:37:54
Let's break out some champagne, or desert wine.
What do you like, Racer? Any special requests? Strawberries dipped in chocolate? Ban and Jerry's? carrot case with divine vailla icing? or?
Okay, we can forget the old good-for-the-soul important-to-get-a-b talk---yeah- itmight be good if you got a B....and all that...but let's cross that bridge until we have to-& not a moment sooner-
wheee! :+}}} !!
********RACER******** ! and *******GG*********!
Jost
Posted by llrrrpp on August 30, 2006, at 21:36:31
In reply to Re: Thank you, GG! Yay, Racer! » Racer, posted by Jost on August 30, 2006, at 2:48:01
Aww, Racer, that's so great.
i knew that I hadn't heard about one of your grades, but I wasn't sure if that was because I missed something. I didn't want to stress you out by asking for an update.and for you and gg-Isn't it great to have friends like that?
I could sure use some strawberries dipped in gravy. yummy! Well. I'm kind of joking. no appetite tonight. but in your honor, I'd eat whatever the birthday girl serves!
Racer, your prof must really enjoy having you in class. It's SOOO much easier to grade an A student than a C student. Everytime she gets to grade one of your assignments, I bet she sighs relief. Oh good- this is Racer's paper. No stress here. check check, comment, comment, check, minus, comment. yep. solid work.
congratulations :)
And by the way, I would have meant it EVEN if you had gotten a B, because you tried your hardest, and that's what matters most. Everyone's best achievement comes at a different level. Your best achievement was an A (life is great when that happens). Maybe you try your darndedness and get a B next time, but the fact that you don't blow off your work and gave it your serious effort is what matters, in my humble and headached opinion.-ll
Posted by Racer on August 31, 2006, at 20:49:34
In reply to Re: Thank you, GG! Yay, Racer! » Racer, posted by Jost on August 30, 2006, at 2:48:01
I don't know what I'd choose for celebration, Jost, but I'm glad I'll be celebrating with you.
Poppyseed cake with cream cheese frosting, maybe. Or spice cake with mocha cream cheese frosting. (I can make the spice cake. I have my grandmother's recipe. The only time I've made it, though -- my first layer cake, actually -- I set the oven on fire...) (I do love that spice cake, though. Maybe baking it could be the celebration? I wish I had someone to eat it, so that I could make it...)
Thank you.
Posted by Racer on August 31, 2006, at 21:00:24
In reply to Re: Thank you, GG! Yay, Racer!, posted by llrrrpp on August 30, 2006, at 21:36:31
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> Racer, your prof must really enjoy having you in class. It's SOOO much easier to grade an A student than a C student. Everytime she gets to grade one of your assignments, I bet she sighs relief. Oh good- this is Racer's paper. No stress here. check check, comment, comment, check, minus, comment. yep. solid work.lol! I promised myself years back, no more classes where I had to write Perfect Essays. This was a math class ;-) But thank you.
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> congratulations :)
> And by the way, I would have meant it EVEN if you had gotten a B, because you tried your hardest, and that's what matters most. Everyone's best achievement comes at a different level. Your best achievement was an A (life is great when that happens). Maybe you try your darndedness and get a B next time, but the fact that you don't blow off your work and gave it your serious effort is what matters, in my humble and headached opinion.
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> -llAnd this kinda made me squirm -- see, that's my problem: I don't have a very varied GPA, which is why I get so damned obsessive about it all. In fact, until this spring, when I was taking fertility drugs that made me completely crazy -- we called it "riding the hormonacoaster" -- I'm not sure I'd ever gotten a B on an exam! Now I know I can survive that, although I'm still unhappy about it. (I sat there crying in the exam period, ready to lay down on the floor and just wait for the ambulance. That was a very BAD time of it. Only lasted about half a day, but made me awfully happy to hear the fertility doctor say we couldn't use that one anymore...)
I've been told I'd live through the experience of getting a B, but I have no proof that's true. That's why my T says it would be good for me to experience it.
My husband told me that he kinda wishes I would get a B, so that I will find out that people still love me. I see there's a pattern forming... Fallsfall said about the same thing... I think you did, too...
But, this time, I don't have that issue. I still think the lecturer got my grade wrong, but I won't argue with it. At least, not too much...
(OMG! Way back when I was in college the first time, twentymumble years ago, I protested a grade once. HORRIBLE professor, he only assigned 8 pages for the entire semester -- IN SOPHOMORE COMPOSITION!!! I protested my grade, and the deans laughed at me! I said I certainly hadn't earned an A, since I hardly wrote anything for the semester. The dean I was talking to was funny about it, but the other dean, who was in the room, turned around laughing and said, "You're protesting an A? I've never heard of that before!" Although, I figured I should be the one to protest, since it was clear it wasn't that I just wanted a higher grade. I only wanted that guy to be checked into. I knew I could write, after all...)
OK. I'm done now.
Thank you, Lurps, for your sweet reply. I'll email you that spice cake. With some nice gravy to go with it.
Posted by llrrrpp on August 31, 2006, at 22:27:35
In reply to Re: Thank you, GG! Yay, Racer! » llrrrpp, posted by Racer on August 31, 2006, at 21:00:24
Racer-
gravy on the side, please? and it's okay if the gravy gets lost in the mail.I'm depressed, not pregnant lol!
-ll
Posted by Jost on September 2, 2006, at 13:35:45
In reply to I'd like to place an order... » Jost, posted by Racer on August 31, 2006, at 20:49:34
Racer, I'm up for spice cake-- with mocha icing (yummmmmm!--I love mocha and spice cake!)
I'll bet you're a great cook. I'll keep my eye on the oven, too. No cake-fires.
Know what, though?
When I was in grad school, I wanted to transfer. I only applied to two or three schools, the three best programs in my field. Cause I didn't want to bother otherwise.
I got rejected at one, I think-- and I never heard from one (the one I really wanted to go to-- which is a long story--but they kept telling me they couldn't make a decision because one of my recommendations was missing, so my application wasn't complete),
so I got a letter from the third saying I was on the waiting list and to CALL to find out if I had gotten in.
Now, I do NOT make phone calls.
Plus: I would have been devastated if I hadn't gotten in. Which there really was not reason to think I would.
So, I didn't call.
And I didn't call.
And it was getting to that point where I was going crazy, cause I just needed to know.
So I got my Sig O to get someone at the office to call, and say, "I'm xxxxx. And I'm calling to find out.... (I don't know what they said, but whatever you say, lawyers know this stuff)....."
It turned out that I had gotten in. Yet, there's no way, I mean NO Way I would ever have found that out, if I had had to make the call.
So I believe there is a fine tradition of getting brave people who know how to make phone calls to make important phone calls (or unimportant phone calls).
So when shall we have that spice cake?
Jost
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