I’m kinda mad at my professor. Today we got our last midterm grade back and i got a 58/75. That’s about a C-. I would be okay with that grade except I know I don’t deserve that grade! He passed back our scan tron printout sheet and it said I didn’t fill in about 7 questions. UM NOOoOOOOo! I swear on my life that I checked that stupid test 3 times to make sure I answered all the questions.
So I went up to him and asked him about what was going on. And he said that’s the computer print out and he only goes by the computer print out. SO i asked him, what if my scan tron showed that I marked the answers and this was the computer’s mistake, and he said that he wasn’t going to do anything about it because it’s campus policy that whatever the computer says, he can’t change. I SAY BULLSHIT! cause even one of the other professor who is also the head of the Nutrition department changes our grade if it’s not right. He clams that he can’t change it because students probably cheated and didn’t mark the scan tron on purpose and possibly filled it out later. I can’t believe this. This happened to me in his other class but I just pushed it aside because I didn’t think anything of it. But this puts me from a possible A to a C- and that drops my grade.
Ughhhh idk… I’m going to talk to my advisor, who is the head of the department about what I should do. If he doesn’t change my grade, I’m taking this to the Chair of the Department because this policy is bogus. I shouldn’t have to pay for what the system failed to do. This really sets me back because I studied so hard for this exam and for it only to show that it wasn’t recorded correctly totally pisses me off. Cause how am I going to know for sure next time that my grade is going to be secure and I get what I deserve?
at home:
when my favorite song play on the radio:
in the shower:
in the computer:
if someone asks me to sing:
My thumb makes me human & separates me from the animals. You truly don’t know the value of your fingers until you have to shower and wipe your butt with only your left hand ):
“I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that - I don’t mind people being happy - but the idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea and has led to a contemporary disease in Western society, which is fear of sadness. It’s a really odd thing that we’re now seeing people saying “write down 3 things that made you happy today before you go to sleep”, and “cheer up” and “happiness is our birthright” and so on. We’re kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position - it’s rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain and then as soon as they experience pain they say “Quick! Move on! Cheer up!” I’d like just for a year to have a moratorium on the word “happiness” and to replace it with the word “wholeness”. Ask yourself “is this contributing to my wholeness?” and if you’re having a bad day, it is.”
- Hugh Mackay
Ever since Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness” song came out, everyone’s adopted that motto, but everyone forgets that through hardship and pain, we rise to find ourselves in happiness. This really changed my mind about the concept of happiness and maybe we’re chasing the wrong thing…
