One particular student was hounding me all day today about the fact that there's some kind of glitch with an extra credit discussion board forum, so she hasn't been able to post to it. I fixed what we thought was the problem, but it didn't work, which means I have to contact the help desk to figure it out--and she was all over my email about it. She also was all over my email asking about her essay grade--even after I returned the essay, which has the grade on it. Calm the hell down and be patient--and recognize that the world doesn't run to your schedule, dammit.
And Boopsie did respond to my email, to my astonishment, and she said she has been falling down on the work but thinks she can pass the class--so she and I will talk during my office hour on Monday. That will be interesting, to say the least.
Oh, yes: and there's the student who said he got his essay back, and was there anything he could do for extra credit. I referred him to the syllabus:
Some
extra credit is built into the regular assignments: if you do all the
assignments and get top marks, you can earn more than 2,000 points—and that
would be the equivalent of getting 100% on every single assignment. I have also
included a few extra credit assignments to help if you should fall behind. That’s enough extra credit. Your
task is to do the work assigned. Do not ask for additional assignments to boost
your cumulative score.
But I got the essays all marked--including Boopsie's--and got the Met project done (turned out to be tiny, thank God), and even wrote a letter of recommendation for a student from my last semester in the classroom, and I am now, by god, stick-a-fork-in-me done for today. I'm going to meet my mother and go out for dinner. Not a steak blow-out with Paul and the gang, but it will do nicely, thank you.
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