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Tastes Like Liberty

Sun Aug 2, 2009, 12:12 AM
  • Mood: Exhilarated
  • Listening to: iTunes Shuffle
  • Reading: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Watching: Babylon 5 and Fullmetal Alchemist
I just wrote a page-long email to a current prof (who I feel has been marking unfairly all semester), expressing my concern for his plan to make our final exam consist of nothing but 3 essay questions (this is a 1st-year Geography course, by the by), and politely but assertively asking him to either give us a more diverse format or at least give out his marking rubric with the test. I used examples, I showed him the math, I played his own words against him, and I expressed some deftly-worded logic, if I do say so myself.

That felt awesome.


(Sadly, the email server is on shutdown for nine more hours, but I most certainly will be sending this letter tomorrow, with one satisfying click.)

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*little-blueshoe Aug 3, 2009, 1:38:51 PM
nice hun... if you fail because of this i will laugh at him and then try to beat him up and take his computer!

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It is in the moments of change
that we truly show who and what we are.
Unable to forget the past
but to struggle to move on from it.
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~hpets Aug 3, 2009, 3:06:19 PM
I can't imagine he'd fail me for this. And if he did... :D oh, what a fun argument that would be!

We're getting our papers back this Tuesday. I am most curious to see what mark I got, and most ready to tear him apart with logical disagreement if I get anything less than 60%. :aww:

--
Beware the Evil Spork! :spork:
"There is no utensil of more unrelenting malice..."


"I think I just verbed a noun." (Joss Whedon)
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*little-blueshoe Aug 4, 2009, 6:46:05 PM
argue until your hearts content love! :glomp: you funny arguer you! :XD: ;P

--
It is in the moments of change
that we truly show who and what we are.
Unable to forget the past
but to struggle to move on from it.
:iconhpets:
~hpets Aug 8, 2009, 9:27:04 PM
I got a fairly good mark on the essay (pretty much exactly what I felt I deserved, though for a 1st year course I think that's still a little on the picky side), so that's one less thing to worry about. The prof also put up everyone's mark (under our student numbers for anonymity), and it turns out my 75% puts me at #3 in the class. Seriously, only one person in this class has higher than 80%.

Oh, and as for the essay? Instead of 3 essay questions he's going to make it 3 essay questions and 5 short answer questions... :no: Joy. (To be honest, I'm still happier with that, because it means each question is worth less overall.) And when I asked him to announce precisely what he would be marking us on for the essays, he explained that he couldn't possibly make up a marking rubric because each question would ask for different things *cough*lame-excuse*cough*, but that all he would be looking for are a clear introduction, a proper answer in the body, and a conclusion that ties well with the whole work. I now wish I'd complained about my midterm marks, because I'm sure I did all of that and yet somehow I barely passed... Argh, the regret...

So now I must make sure to study very hard so that there's no one to fault but him if I don't do well.

--
Beware the Evil Spork! :spork:
"There is no utensil of more unrelenting malice..."


"I think I just verbed a noun." (Joss Whedon)
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