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So it's been nearly a week since my last blog post,
+ Show Spoiler +http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=403771
and school has gone at least a bit better. Midterms are all over, and its a relief. The future seems quiet bright at this point of last "proper" semester of this school year.
Today is March 25, 2013,
This morning school didn't seems all that bad, after receiving my history midterm grade online. I received a 22/25, for those who have trouble with math that's an 88/100 (B+). On the drive here to my CC, I felt rejuvinated and alive. So far in my CC career the only other grade I have received exceeding this one would be my first paper in Freshman College level English (just so no one confuses it with an ESL program), which was an A+. However, that did not last very long... during my second class, my Economics professor would pass back our midterm paper (something I thought I did fairly well on) riddled with pencil marks. I knew I did not receive a desireable grade, and I searched all over the paper for it: 9/25...
Devistated... my day turned around literally in that instant. The only way I could salvage this class would be dropping it, and so I did. Now I would have to repeat that class in the summer session, thus recurring the units I would've received now. I am not mad, I am indifferent, and I am glad that I am indifferent, because I feel I am ready to start anew and began organizing myself.
  
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United States24771 Posts
It's good not to freak out, but do you have an idea as to why there was such a difference between what you expected and what grade I got on the economics paper? Have you gone through all of the comments/etc carefully?
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Either that economics teacher is terrible, or you had a huge misconception about the quality of the work that you were turning in. Sometimes even really great papers get terrible grades because they are not following the rubric.
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yeah man, just take it as a learning experience. sometimes (i dont know if this was your case with your econ midterm), you just get professors that are tough graders. try taking it with someone else. and yeah, that feeling of starting anew and getting your shit together is great.
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Well, often econ courses are graded on a curve, so if everyone else did crappy that 9/25 could be a B!
Edit: And to echo what people said above, I don't think I ever got a grade in college that was more than 1 full grade better or worse than I anticipated, so you may be misjudging the amount of work/effort required to succeed in econ. Especially classes that involve computation/problem solving, you just have to put in the time and repetitively do exercises so that you get the basics down, so when they throw you a curve ball on the test you can incorporate it into your strong mental framework.
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On March 26 2013 03:28 micronesia wrote:
It's good not to freak out, but do you have an idea as to why there was such a difference between what you expected and what grade I got on the economics paper? Have you gone through all of the comments/etc carefully?
I looked through the comments and stuff, the professor literally picked my paper a part because he felt that a few of the details were too broad and could have been written to be more specific and for some reason he felt that it was not as analytical as it could've been. His literal comment was "I feel like you just took parts of different articles and threw them together..." so I guess he disliked the way I organized my essay... either way, class is dropped and I'll just take it with another professor in the summer... hopefully in the summer I wouldn't have to do a piece of s*** midterm paper. I prefer objective tests in social sciences, cause then the professor's opinion wouldn't really apply, and everything would be based on facts (from the text at least).
P.S. micronesia, that last ban was so unnecessary... the guy had a "TL;DR" at the bottom. So technically I didn't have to read the whole thing, he summarized his entire blog entry with that.
+ Show Spoiler +to me it screamed, omg pls don't take my details into consideration the general idea is all you'll need.
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United States24771 Posts
I honestly have no idea what you are even talking about, but if you want to provide website feedback there is a forum for it.
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If you haven't figured it out yet, you will learn that your GPA in college is determined by 3 things;
Level of Effort
When you took the class
And what professor you had.
I'll let you figure out the order of greater influence *wink*.
*Helpful hint. When you sign up for classes, and you see a class with 10 /100 slots and another 100/100 with 20 on the waiting list, I think it would be a safe bet to get put on the wait list.
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That usually has to do with the time since its a community college, not a dorm university. My uni doesn't even list the professors until the last few weeks before class officially begins, we have to use word of mouth to get information on who will be teaching a certain course based on the section codes.
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@ Disregard - I suppose it depends on the school. I would simply look at last years instructors + class times. Generally the same class time resulted in the same instructor.
There have been times that I got things wrong though. I remember Numerical Analysis, I worked my tail off to get a B-. Several of my buds were failing, dropped, and took it during the summer. Lowest grade in that class during the summer? A-
Either way, it is important to know these things sooner rather than later. Best advice for college is to make friends with folks 1 year ahead of you.
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