3 down and 1 to go....light at end of tunnel

teacher informed my after last exam she was giving me an A regardless of how well I did on final......and I stayed up all night studying WHY????????

I dunno, but at least you know your grade and you don't have to wonder until grades are posted to know how you did! (does that make it any better at all?) ???

Oh thank Goddess! i am finally, finally done with my exams--this semester sucked beyond belief--I did so bad in my American Architecture class--normally, I am a straight A student, but I just could not get my brain to wrap around architecture concepts--if I get a C in this class, I will be over joyed. It kills me to think my GPA will be destroyed by this one stupid class--but everyone bombs at least one class right? *blerg* oh well...I'm jsut glad it's over with!!!

finals are Finally done? haha, sorry I'm a sucker for unintentional puns. I have an elderly man's sense of humour.
e.t.a. I forgot to spell check.

Well, my finals are DONE.

So I needed an 80 on my final to get a C+ and apply for the nursing program...I got a 76....which translates to a 75.46 for the overall class grade...I needed a 77 to get a C+....Remember my teacher said if it was REALLY CLOSE he would fudge it a bit? I hope that's close enough, if not i have to retake at summer school. :-( I feel kinda sad. I mean, I've EARNED a C in that class. If I don't have to repeat it, its only because my teacher decided to be nice, not because I earned it. I just feel lousy and like I let myself down. I mean, I'm keeping it in perspective...I'm not going to go and drive my car off the highway....but you know....

Actually...in a way this has been a "wake up call." I just realize some things about my ED that are hard to swallow...I don't like it...but things feel so out-of-control. The day before the test I made this Vblog about it on youtube that you can see if you want to (my user name on there is "realzeal85" and its the second video I made called "breakthrough") UNFORTUNATELY, even after making that video, its like things went into hyper drive with unhealthy behaviors...I just don't understand. BOOOO!

Well, Im supposed to get back on my medication on the 21st, maybe next semesterr will be better....here we go Chemistry!!!!

((((((HUGS))))) OMG! I totally feel you--I'm just begging for a C in my AA class too, lets hope we both get them! :)

You know--I'm the same way with ED stuff--it seems like every time I have a breakthrough and figure stuff out and decide that I need to shape up and get healthy--that's when I slide back hard core--I'm totally going through the same thing right now :( I think it's the ED-personality attempting to redominate--it's so very Smegal/Golem!! *sigh* I know you can't see me VHZ--but I'm reaching out for you :) :)

Just after 6am and I look up from the books and computer and realize....darn there is major snow action going on out there!!!  A BLIZZARD....WTF???

Mentally I calculate what my grade could be without my last exam.....could e-mail instructor last assignment.....why are the gods of finals mocking me????  what if the school closes???  wait..maybe school will close...then I am off hook....better check

Oh hell, ain't nothing I can do.  Main campus is open but the rest of the whatever they call them are closed.  Instructor sends out e-mail that she won't be there but we can go to the testing center to take test.....errrrr ahem!  My e-mail is messed up for some reason....weather messing with connection maybe?  Everytime I try to e-mail out with attachment it just freezes.  Grade without exam is 85....think that is about a C right? 

Enough already....I'm going to go eat a brownie and relax.

An 85% is usually a 'B'; but your school may use a different scale.  You may want to recalculate that, though.  How much of your total grade is the final exam worth?  If you have an 85% final grade without it, then it is worth at most 15% of your total grade (and that's if you have 100% on every other assignment in the class).  Now if you have an 85% average on all the other stuff in the class (i.e. you got around an 85/100 on most assignments), then the final has to be worth less than 18% of your total grade for you to get a 'C' in the class.  I guess some liberal arts classes here have finals that aren't worth that much; but the final in math/science/engineering classes are usually worth a minimum of 30% of your grade.  I'm sure it would say on the syllabus.

On the other side of the coin, I didn't have to take any finals myself this semester (my final was my thesis defense a couple months ago, which I obviously rocked).  But, all the GTAs who teach calculus give the same final (it's a uniform exam program, so the final is written by a professor), and my students had the highest average of all the GTAs' giving it.  It was about 3% higher than the next highest, at least 5% higher than most.  I know it was my students who did it, but I can't help but feel a little responsible. :)

EEEEEEEEEGGGGGAAAAADDDDDDSSSSSS!!!!!  I just tried driving in this stuff......I have a lot more grey hairs than I did before I tried.  Got stuck twice and spun out once....when I stopped spinning I was facing the direction home so that's where I went....more than a bit frazzled at the mo.

Did find a pay phone and called my boss and told him I wouldn't make it in....he hung up...wonderful man ..really.. ::) ehhh he'll get over it....(note..next time I do wash I will be sure to remove cell phone...they can't swim)

According to the sylabus exam is 15 percent.  I did pretty good in class (if I say so myself and I have to at the moment).  Plus I have 8 extra points for some extra credit stuff that I did.....and I doubt I am the only student that couldn't get it.....so over it

hmmm...I have all this time on my hands...maybe I can make myself a nice dinner? 

Megg on one level I know your right....on some others though I am in a complete panic

It's been 25 to 30 years since I was in school and I was scared shitless to try but did it anyway.  I am the oldest student in all my classes....damn I am older than all my instructors!  Now I am obsessed with proving to myself I can do it...and I am getting really frustrated today.  Ok I am turning into whining beeccchhhh

Sooooo....my prof wrote me back....yeah....he "thinks i would benefit from repeating the course"

So...first of all, how the F*** could somebody not benefit form a review?

second, shouldn't they like give us a curve of some sort since 14 of the original 25 withdrew with a "fail"?

Third, so much for "fudging it a bit" if i was really close to a C+...apparently 1 1/2 points is just too much of a discrepancy....

fourth...WTF!?!?!?!

I spent a while crying on the phone with my dad this morning (not, "how could he do this to me"'--I'm not that much of a princess...more like "I'm just so disappointed in myself, how could I let me down like that!?") It was actually unearthly helpful to talk to my dad about it...like parallel universe helpful...and i feel a bit better now. Still having a hard time not kicking myself for it, but I think thats helpful....

apparently my comfort food is a gingerbread misto (not available is sugar free, by the way!) from Starbucks and half a serving of veggie sushi from WF??? Ummm...okay...i wasn't sure if I should allow such a thing...I don't want to REWARD myself for doing crappy...BUT....why the hell not, you know? Yeah....

feeling a little anti-social for the day...whatev....