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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

So this sucks pretty hard...

Background story: Fall 2010, I took two history classes with the same professor. Asian History to 1500 and Early Medieval History. Anyway I did pretty good in those classes. I got As and Bs on everything. Though at the end there she surprised us with a SURPRISE RESEARCH PAPER two days before the final in both classes.



Anyway that really sucked. I basically told her I was going to do one of them for her classes because they were 10 - 15 pages. I also had 4 other papers and 4 other finals to study for at the time. I told her I would just take whatever grade she might give me without the paper. Which, when I did the math was a low B, high C. Anyway she didn't like that. So she tried to talk me and a few other people into taking Incompletes. I took it and so did a few others, under the pretense that we'd have more time. I turned in two pretty well thought out essays in the beginning of the Spring 2011 semester. One on the evolution of art through the silk road, another on art during the Early Medieval period. Both were pretty good, if not a little short. 7-8 pages.

This wasn't good enough for her and she told me to write more. I basically told her I was a short writer and that because I was taking 5 pretty tough classes right now I don't really have time. I asked her to just grade them - they were my final drafts. She never emailed me back. I checked every day to see if my incompletes changed. They never did. I tried calling her, emailing her, etc. She never got back to me. Finally I said, "Fuck it," and basically went to Williamson Hall to 'stalk' her after one of her classes.

I said, "Hey, the incompletes are going to be Fs tomorrow. Can you just give me any grade?"

She said, "I want you to work on these essays more. I can change the Fs at any time don't worry about it."

I did a proper amount of freaking out over all of this.



I took a couple more weeks trying to add to these essays but there was nothing more to add without going off topic. So I emailed her back and said I couldn't. That I would just take any grade at this point other than those Fs. She never got back to me...again. So I finished my semester with a 3.5- 4.0 gpa like usual. But my cumulative GPA dropped fiercely. I got cited.

The now part:

Now that I need her to verify this story so that I can get my loans/grants for school she is not answering her emails. I emailed her about two weeks ago. Nothing. Not a no or a yes. Like she never saw it. So I tried calling the history department - no answer. Today I tried calling the chair of the history department. She told me to copy both her and the Dean of the college in another email asking my professor for help, again.

So I did that. Great. Awesome. Now she just needs to do what I've begged for before December 22nd. Or I'll just be fucked again.

I don't know what the heck I'm going to do if I end up not going to school. Probably be bored out of my skull for months. I've already done that for 6 months, I'd like not to do it again.




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