adjuncthell: What part of "if you have grade issues going into finals week you must make an appointment with me" did you not understand?

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

What part of "if you have grade issues going into finals week you must make an appointment with me" did you not understand?

It's as if I said it in French or something. Amazing that even in person when I just said the same thing to a student who just came in "are you sure you don't have a few minutes to look at the grades on WebCT together?" it took three times for him to accept it. Not that he couldn't see the humongous pile of work in front of me. Then he wanted just to stop in tomorrow and I repeated again that he needed to make an appointment, which he finally, grudgingly, did.

Remains to be seen if he shows up since he has missed 2 graded components this semester just by virtue of brain clouds (or something) and was fairly slack on several other items... which is partly why his grade is on very soft ground just now and is perhaps why he is (finally) so keen to do something about it... er rather: so keen to try to cajole ME (without an appointment) into doing something about it, rather than just Doing What He Was Supposed To Do all semester.

Finals week is the GREATEST!!!!! Woo hoo!!!!!!

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