I have completely lost it now.......
After having a wonderful first semester back to school last fall....ok, it was incredible- challenging, frustrating and exhilarating all at once and I had a wonderful professor who was understanding and completely realistic about every single student's time and ability. This one has been quite different. Now I get that students should have to meet the professor's requirements....but I wonder if somehow there shouldn't be a check of sorts so that the professor should also have to meet the student's requirements?!?!? Something along the lines of...I am paying your freaking salary...actually paying cash from MY, not my parents and not a scholarship, but MY bank account and therefore maybe you should give me a little leeway when let's say ...oh...I have to attend a funeral, and then another one and then my kids get sick...seems like that might be the time for professoral discretion as to allowing me to physically hand in the bibliography for my paper that is not itself due until May 15th(don't even get me started on that!) But....I have run into someone who won't bend any of her rules and I have multiple theories as to why......but I'm not going to discuss those....at least not in this post:)
Soooo..at this point since I have actually done the math and IF I get 100% on every thing else in the class and I don't miss any other days then I can achieve exactly 81%........a B-....and yes I realize that is not bad at all, but I am bit of a perfectionist....and knowing that it was nothing I did per se or even that my actual grades on assignments wouldn't even reflect that.....I just can't tolerate it and so am withdrawing.....and to say I am a tad pissed...well that's a bit of an understatement.
Here I am....having gotten off to a wonderful start...finally....and then it has come crashing down because life is not perfect and throws you curve balls from time to time.....it's quite distressing. I can only hope the professor never has her life, or her children's, so adversely affected by someone who is oblivious to reality.
Oh....and...we had another snow day and I am about to kill the kids and hubby....
Blog ya later-
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I ran into that situation as well in college. I spent the summer prior to my senior year working 100 hours a week waiting tables so I could attend my senior year. Somewhere along the way the payment slip for my fall courses did not arrive in my mailbox, therefore it was not paid. Seven days before classes were to start I received a letter saying that the university had dropped all of my classes. I was able to get 4 of the 6 classes added back but the other 2 were filled in the meantime. Those 2 classes were senior level classes offered only in the fall semester so I went to my advisor to see how we could go about getting that overridden or taken on independent study. What I got was this huge lecture on how irresponsible I was for not knowing that the billing was due. I should have been contacting the university to inquire where it was. It didn't matter to him in the least that I was working double-shifts 7 days a week so I could pay for those classes. And it's not like I was a marginal student either. So as I left I gave him no uncertain directions as to what he could with his pompous attitude and the high-horse he rode in on... :))
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