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littletrumpetcat · 2 months ago

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thoroughly convinced my professor has a hard on for failing people in this music history class that's only offered once a year and not offered online anywhere. 45% course weighting on an exam that hasn't been changed since he got here, causing all of us to run out of time, when he's already explained that he expects us to do poorly and even fail the first exam. several people got 20-40% on the exam btw. and the icing on the fuckin cake is that our assignments are not even worth points. they have a 0% weighting. we're just doing these 4 page summaries on 20 page academic literature and it's not even worth anything. he won't even let it help our grades. he's proudly boasted about how he's not afraid to fail anyone and that he'd dig up his grandma and fail her. like dude this is insane

#i failed the class last year #because on our 10-12 page essay #i didn't have a central argument. realized way too late how awful my topic was #i had nothing despite all of the research i combed through #and #because he decided 2 months into the semester + changing the whole class format #that he couldn't test us on anything so we had no exams #BUT our essays would then be worth 50% of our grade ish #enough to bring me from an A to an F :)))))))))))))))))))#and ive come to terms with it #and that it was ultimately only my fault #but this year #im genuinely going to talk to someone about this because he's never made his assignments worth 0 points #yet not completing the assignments will hurt our grade #i haven't failed to complete any assignments bc #im really not messing around this year #but his exams are so fucking hard dude #everyone knows it. he even told us that he expected a class average of 60%#my grade dropped from a B+ to a D-#weeee #im starting the studying process for the next exam literally asap #as soon as we start studying the next piece in class

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