did this warrant a 50 on my final exam?

[Music Fiend]

Thisis real life, it doesn't matter what's fair, or anything personal you had going on aside from death or an emergency. I have seen professors no make excuses for emergencies either. You could possibly appeal but I don't even think he was that out of line.

You could have even shown up to class early and talked to him in person, he may have let you leave earlier. You have your priorities and your grade suffered. I have been careless in the past too. Just make learn from this.

Y'all keep using the early angle. There was no time to show up early. It wasn't until right before class things came up. But I get it b.

 

[TRFG]

Both you and you're brother lost

You for being a total dumbass and your brother for joining the military


You're lucky you didn't get a failing grade

 

[Raava]

Y'all keep using the early angle. There was no time to show up early. It wasn't until right before class things came up. But I get it b.

Not even show up early tho, like just show up period and try to talk to him. I mean I get it, I get why you did it, I have done something like that before too. But they don't care, and unfortunately you are really at the mercy of their rules. It gets worse when you get in the workforce a lot of times.

 

[StickStickly]

To be honest, your professor has no idea if you were telling the truth about your brother or not, and birthdays aren't real holidays so...for all he knew you were trying to turn in an electronic copy because you Weren't finished and would use the extra time to trick him and give yourself more time to edit and change your work in the background so that you could turn in a finalized hard copy later.

Gotta think like a teacher

 

[Reginald Noble]

Thisis real life, it doesn't matter what's fair, or anything personal you had going on aside from death or an emergency. I have seen professors no make excuses for emergencies either. You could possibly appeal but I don't even think he was that out of line.

You could have even shown up to class early and talked to him in person, he may have let you leave earlier. You have your priorities and your grade suffered. I have been careless in the past too. Just make learn from this.

It's college, not a fukking job. He e-mailed the final assignment right afterwards. I really can't see the foul here. Students have lives and they are paying for school not the other way around.

Even on my damn job I work from home on my B-day or take that Friday off. This was extreme on part of the professor and very egotistical. Nonetheless it's shyt my man will have to deal with in the real world as well but it's easier to dodge those types of companies now with Glassdoor.com and LinkedIN so you can see what's up beforehand But they do have that college professor grading website where you grade your professor - However, if the professor doesn't have alot of tenure there may not be any data on him.

 

[Reginald Noble]

To be honest, your professor has no idea if you were telling the truth about your brother or not, and birthdays aren't real holidays so...for all he knew you were trying to turn in an electronic copy because you Weren't finished and would use the extra time to trick him and give yourself more time to edit and change your work in the background so that you could turn in a finalized hard copy later.

Gotta think like a teacher

It would depend on the student. Like why would he try to buy extra time if he was prudent about all the work before and was on track to get an A+?

 

[Neil Tyson]

It happens

My Pre-Cal teacher failed me despite me going to tutors, having a roommate who was getting his master's in math tutoring me, going to the professor himself for tips and confirming he grades based on a curve, as well as not if you got the problem right but the steps and logic you used to arrive at your conclusion. I attended more classes than my friend who attended the same class, got tutoring every other week and was always following the latest course material. He gave me a failing grade by 5 points I legitimately showed I wanted to get an understanding of the material and gave it more effort than I give my core major classes. There are a million and one different reasons he failed me by such a small amount beyond him being a fat ugly jealous racist CAC - But I put it behind me took it as a lesson that I need to humble myself and take remedial math in order to graduate and focus on my strengths at the time which were foreign language, history, marketing and poly sci.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do. For an accounting degree a B+ average in college it will be a little tougher upon graduating but as long as you focus on getting strong internships and networking you'll be fine. Worse comes to worst we need accounting majors in Digital Marketing and Ad Tech

Your GPA isn't everything. I'm 7 years out and yeah you have the occasional job description that says you should have graduated with this major and this GPA. As soon as they look at my resume they aren't caring about no damn GPA. High GPA doesn't prepare you for the real world, teach you how to communicate with colleagues, speak CAC and other intangibles essential for surviving even basic corporate jobs. Recruiters know this so by the time you are in your 3rd year of your career you can safely laugh at GPA particularly if you have worked with big companies by then or picked up a highly needed skill.

Yeah nobody really cares about that (GPA), shyt happens during school. Just get out there and earn your stripes.

 

[StickStickly]

It would depend on the student. Like why would he try to buy extra time if he was prudent about all the work before and was on track to get an A+?

It doesn't matter how great a student is. I was a TA and great students all of sudden come up with excuses when their senior thesis and final papers were due, too. People are always trying to bend the rules especially near the end of the semester and during time crunches. You'd be surprised. I did some shyt as a student as well. The pressures of school make all people do funny, out of character things, so I understand the teacher having to act out of not knowing. Think about it, there's no way for him to tell what's going on. A fifty percent final grade is harsh though.

 

[Reginald Noble]

It doesn't matter how great a student is. I was a TA and great students all of sudden come up with excuses when their senior thesis and final papers were due, too. You'd be surprised. I did some shyt as a student as well. The pressures of school make all people do funny, out of character things, so I understand the teacher having to act out of not knowing. Think about it, there's no way for him to tell what's going on. A fifty percent final grade is harsh though.

Exactly. I can see docking a few points off to prove a point but he just went overboard. That's how you create cynical jaded people such as myself when you do shyt like that in positions of authority.

 

[Moshe.]

I would have given you a C-, not an F, for turning it in late. Some professors are harsher than others, you just have to be wiser in your priorities next time.

 

[StickStickly]

Exactly. I can see docking a few points off to prove a point but he just went overboard. That's how you create cynical jaded people such as myself when you do shyt like that in positions of authority.

You can't blame him. Most teachers make the rules that way for a reason- students trying all kinds of shyt in the past and you never know who is lying. He was probably burned in the past too, feels jaded about good cool students trying to pull one over. Students aren't the only ones getting walked on. You never know. He's got a job to do. Think about it from both sides

 

[Music Fiend]

To be honest, your professor has no idea if you were telling the truth about your brother or not, and birthdays aren't real holidays so...for all he knew you were trying to turn in an electronic copy because you Weren't finished and would use the extra time to trick him and give yourself more time to edit and change your work in the background so that you could turn in a finalized hard copy later.

Gotta think like a teacher

Yeah I understand that breh.

My thing is, if that is the case. I added in the email that it was even outlandish as a story but I had documentation of the proof of it. Plane tickets, dinner receipts, receipt of me picking up the physical portfolio from fedex days before, etc.

I don't see why he didn't ask for proof.if I was a professor, the first thing I'd do is verify the date of birth, then ask for verification that his strong is true and he wasn't skipping to party or finish the assignment.

 

[Juliano Soprano]

Yeah I understand that breh.

My thing is, if that is the case. I added in the email that it was even outlandish as a story but I had documentation of the proof of it. Plane tickets, dinner receipts, receipt of me picking up the physical portfolio from fedex days before, etc.

I don't see why he didn't ask for proof.if I was a professor, the first thing I'd do is verify the date of birth, then ask for verification that his strong is true and he wasn't skipping to party or finish the assignment.

That's doing too much and going out of his way, if he wanted to he could've did all that extraness but honestly...if he does it for you, he has to do it for everybody else that would ask. You knew the process and didn't follow it, and it was a good reason you didn't, I put fam over everything too, so I would've took that L with no complaints.

Long story short, don't expect understanding when you're not following protocol...Take that L breh

 

[M'gann]

You , but what excuse did you give when you sent the email?

 

[Bigtymer301]

Yep. Obviously I'm being an entitled Biatch.

You right.


But it was my birthday. Class at 8pm to 10pm, bro I haven't seen in 3 years shows up for the night only. Da fuq am I supposed to do. Tell my bro I gotta hit class and get back to the crib at 1030/11pm.

Exactly what you should have done. The biggest thing college does for you is get you ready for the real world. You are going to have plenty of times the rest of your life where you are going to have to make decisions between things you want to do, vs things you need to do. Then, YOU will have to deal with the consequences. This was no different. It's harsh, but at the end of the day, this professor teaches many students. To him, more than likely your just another number. You got a 50, when he could have easily given you a 0. Do you think if your brother, whom is in the military, had to be somewhere for the military, and you popped up he could just drop his responsibility, and he not be reprimanded? You got a B instead of an A, . If it's that big of a deal to you, make sure you learn from it.