catching up
Dec. 3rd, 2003 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepieceYeah, yeah, barely posted in the past month, school, work, vacation, yada yada, so sue me.
Anyway.
I am driven to post today because I'm upset. Since one of my professors never got around to bringing back our midterms (which were when? in October?) as she *specifically* said she would, I finally wen to the department office and got mine. I knew I hadn't done fantastic, but I really didn't think I was so bad as to get a C. And this was 25% if my grade. So now I'm freaking. If I don'y make at least a B, I don't get reimbursed for school. Plus, it's almost impossible to get less than a B in grad school, it seems like.
She wanted me to cite the readings. Cite! I ask you. Now, it was an open-notes test, but not open book. I do not take notes on the readings - I just read, and maybe highlight. And I don't particularly pay attention to which book I'm in. Shouldn't it be enough to know the concept? Do I really need to know whose it is? I mean, it's one thing to know that stuff when you're taking philosophy, but in library science it shouldn't matter.
So now I need to do a really, really good job on my final presentation, even though it counts less than the mid-term. And I'm not sure if I can. I want to do something with how the internet has affected people with disabilities, which she approves, but I obviously need to narrow it down. I think I might do how web design can be improved to be more disability-friendly, which is primarily my inerest in this category.
Anyway.
I am driven to post today because I'm upset. Since one of my professors never got around to bringing back our midterms (which were when? in October?) as she *specifically* said she would, I finally wen to the department office and got mine. I knew I hadn't done fantastic, but I really didn't think I was so bad as to get a C. And this was 25% if my grade. So now I'm freaking. If I don'y make at least a B, I don't get reimbursed for school. Plus, it's almost impossible to get less than a B in grad school, it seems like.
She wanted me to cite the readings. Cite! I ask you. Now, it was an open-notes test, but not open book. I do not take notes on the readings - I just read, and maybe highlight. And I don't particularly pay attention to which book I'm in. Shouldn't it be enough to know the concept? Do I really need to know whose it is? I mean, it's one thing to know that stuff when you're taking philosophy, but in library science it shouldn't matter.
So now I need to do a really, really good job on my final presentation, even though it counts less than the mid-term. And I'm not sure if I can. I want to do something with how the internet has affected people with disabilities, which she approves, but I obviously need to narrow it down. I think I might do how web design can be improved to be more disability-friendly, which is primarily my inerest in this category.