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I'm on break, but I'm not really done working. Final grade submission was today at noon, and I got everything in on time, but a student who neglected to properly submit an essay is still trying to submit. I contributed to some of the confusion, in that they asked if I had recieved it because they hadn't gotten a read receipt (I'm dubious that someone who knows how to request a read receipt in gmail doesn't know when their email didn't send), and I just said that I had. I assumed I had, anyhow. They didn't get an error message - they didn't get anything. It should still be in their drafts folder.) But saying that I had puts me in a gray area. I'm within my rights to just say no, but I'll run it by the first year writing director.
Even easier - I'll check the grade on it first, and if it's not sufficient to bump her grade, I don't actually have to change anything since only letter grades mean anything worthwhile. It's a week late per policy, so late penalties apply. What a pain in the ass.
Also have to complete a Title IX training course by Wednesday. 90 minutes of lecturing goodness. Title IX is legitimately important, but this is also legitimately exhausting at a point when I just want to rest. Every day, without exception, for the last two weeks has been 12-15 hour work days.
I just want to read, play Fallout and Xenosaga, and maybe catch a movie.
I got A's in my courses. 554 is a grad course, but it doesn't get graded in the same way, really. You either do what you're supposed to do, or you don't. 521 and 506 are graded normally and 521's structure was especially frustrating to me this semester, but it's officially a wrap and I no longer give a shit. My last entry, a brief synopsis of my exhausting 18 page essay, went in the right direction. Got an A+ on that one, I did. That feels good, I have to say.
Next semester's tough. I'm signed up for two regular courses and my thesis course, and I really have to drop one of those. Professor unseen, I'd probably prefer to drop the romantic poets course, but I like the professor a lot more than the modern lit course I'm in. The romantic poet course is taught by my advisor, and I'll probably talk with him a little at the opening of the semester, but that said, I'll probably end up dropping modern lit. It would be marginally more useful to my thesis, but unless we're pulling lit and theory from useful directions in the course, I can't see that it would be measureable more successful. It's been a year and a half, but this feels like it's going really, really fast.
Even easier - I'll check the grade on it first, and if it's not sufficient to bump her grade, I don't actually have to change anything since only letter grades mean anything worthwhile. It's a week late per policy, so late penalties apply. What a pain in the ass.
Also have to complete a Title IX training course by Wednesday. 90 minutes of lecturing goodness. Title IX is legitimately important, but this is also legitimately exhausting at a point when I just want to rest. Every day, without exception, for the last two weeks has been 12-15 hour work days.
I just want to read, play Fallout and Xenosaga, and maybe catch a movie.
I got A's in my courses. 554 is a grad course, but it doesn't get graded in the same way, really. You either do what you're supposed to do, or you don't. 521 and 506 are graded normally and 521's structure was especially frustrating to me this semester, but it's officially a wrap and I no longer give a shit. My last entry, a brief synopsis of my exhausting 18 page essay, went in the right direction. Got an A+ on that one, I did. That feels good, I have to say.
Next semester's tough. I'm signed up for two regular courses and my thesis course, and I really have to drop one of those. Professor unseen, I'd probably prefer to drop the romantic poets course, but I like the professor a lot more than the modern lit course I'm in. The romantic poet course is taught by my advisor, and I'll probably talk with him a little at the opening of the semester, but that said, I'll probably end up dropping modern lit. It would be marginally more useful to my thesis, but unless we're pulling lit and theory from useful directions in the course, I can't see that it would be measureable more successful. It's been a year and a half, but this feels like it's going really, really fast.