What's in a letter...
Jan. 5th, 2005 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
candylandHello, all! And welcome to the wonderful year of zero-five!
I had an interesting experience this past week that I think I'll share--mostly because it's one that I hope I NEVER have to repeat. This was AWFUL!
It all started around Christmas, when I went online to check my grades on the school's website. All my classes had posted except for two. Written Comm II, which I knew was an A, since I'd gotten A's on all the papers (plus, the prof liked me and the topics I picked, and she's the kind of prof that would let that influence the grade a bit), and Intro to American Government, which I was a little more concerned about, but I'd gotten A's on the first two tests, so I figured that even if I completely bombed the last test or the paper, I couldn't possibly do any worse than a C.
See, my grades have always been very important to me, and I've always held myself to an A-B standard. That's applied my whole life. In high school, I could be as involved as I wanted with all sorts of activities as long as I kept the grades up. So that's just my normal standard.
Well, I checked back again later, and they still hadn't posted. Then just before New Year's, I checked back again. Sure enough, Written Comm had a nice pretty 'A' next to it. Then I scrolled down and looked at Government. And staring back at me was the one thing I never, EVER thought I would see. A big, fat, laughing 'F.' Failed. Flunk. Miserable failure.
Well, after I stopped crying (this has NEVER happened to me), I got to thinking, and I was wondering what the hell happened. And I could not figure it out. So I decided that the minute I got back onto campus, I would email my prof and ask him what had happened. I had a few days of worry, thinking about the plummet my GPA had taken, big red F's dancing around in my nightmares...I was really upset. School's important to me. I emailed him on Sunday, as soon as I got back.
Yesterday, I got an email back from him, saying that he would be in his office all afternoon. So naturally, I breezed right over, knocked on the door, and went in. He pulled out my file and said something along the lines of, "Did you want to know why you got a B instead of an A?" My jaw hit the floor. And I said that my transcript read an F. He freaked, and we hauled right down to the registrar and got it changed. Then they changed it to an A instead of a B, and I'm honest, so I pointed it out.
So everything's good now. My GPA is all sparkly and pretty again, and my prof is now paranoid and checking back over all the grades in all his classes. We really aren't sure what happened. All his documents and stuff had the B on it, and it's a computerized system, so we're not a hundred percent sure what the glitch was that changed my grade like that. Oh well--if it's fixed now, it's okay. That was all I wanted. Mistakes happen.
It just sucks when they happen to you, is all.
Oh, BTW, my pal Kat-chan brought over the second Inuyasha movie on New Year's and we watched it. It kicks donkey on multiple levels. I think I'll have to get that DVD...eventually...
AND after months of waiting, today we finally got our big snow. YAY FUN!! When I say snow, I'm talking about a foot, and we're supposed to get more. It's been falling all day and hasn't stopped yet. My friends and I were planning to go outside and play in it, but the Champion Snow-Frolicker, my best friend Sharie, got sick. So we're putting it off for a while. It's our tradition, but without Share-Bear, it wouldn't be official, ya know? We shall hopefully romp tomorrow.
The worst part is that right now, the roads are really bad, and I'm really craving Subway...
Kisses,
Candy-chan ^_~
I had an interesting experience this past week that I think I'll share--mostly because it's one that I hope I NEVER have to repeat. This was AWFUL!
It all started around Christmas, when I went online to check my grades on the school's website. All my classes had posted except for two. Written Comm II, which I knew was an A, since I'd gotten A's on all the papers (plus, the prof liked me and the topics I picked, and she's the kind of prof that would let that influence the grade a bit), and Intro to American Government, which I was a little more concerned about, but I'd gotten A's on the first two tests, so I figured that even if I completely bombed the last test or the paper, I couldn't possibly do any worse than a C.
See, my grades have always been very important to me, and I've always held myself to an A-B standard. That's applied my whole life. In high school, I could be as involved as I wanted with all sorts of activities as long as I kept the grades up. So that's just my normal standard.
Well, I checked back again later, and they still hadn't posted. Then just before New Year's, I checked back again. Sure enough, Written Comm had a nice pretty 'A' next to it. Then I scrolled down and looked at Government. And staring back at me was the one thing I never, EVER thought I would see. A big, fat, laughing 'F.' Failed. Flunk. Miserable failure.
Well, after I stopped crying (this has NEVER happened to me), I got to thinking, and I was wondering what the hell happened. And I could not figure it out. So I decided that the minute I got back onto campus, I would email my prof and ask him what had happened. I had a few days of worry, thinking about the plummet my GPA had taken, big red F's dancing around in my nightmares...I was really upset. School's important to me. I emailed him on Sunday, as soon as I got back.
Yesterday, I got an email back from him, saying that he would be in his office all afternoon. So naturally, I breezed right over, knocked on the door, and went in. He pulled out my file and said something along the lines of, "Did you want to know why you got a B instead of an A?" My jaw hit the floor. And I said that my transcript read an F. He freaked, and we hauled right down to the registrar and got it changed. Then they changed it to an A instead of a B, and I'm honest, so I pointed it out.
So everything's good now. My GPA is all sparkly and pretty again, and my prof is now paranoid and checking back over all the grades in all his classes. We really aren't sure what happened. All his documents and stuff had the B on it, and it's a computerized system, so we're not a hundred percent sure what the glitch was that changed my grade like that. Oh well--if it's fixed now, it's okay. That was all I wanted. Mistakes happen.
It just sucks when they happen to you, is all.
Oh, BTW, my pal Kat-chan brought over the second Inuyasha movie on New Year's and we watched it. It kicks donkey on multiple levels. I think I'll have to get that DVD...eventually...
AND after months of waiting, today we finally got our big snow. YAY FUN!! When I say snow, I'm talking about a foot, and we're supposed to get more. It's been falling all day and hasn't stopped yet. My friends and I were planning to go outside and play in it, but the Champion Snow-Frolicker, my best friend Sharie, got sick. So we're putting it off for a while. It's our tradition, but without Share-Bear, it wouldn't be official, ya know? We shall hopefully romp tomorrow.
The worst part is that right now, the roads are really bad, and I'm really craving Subway...
Kisses,
Candy-chan ^_~