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I decided to stick with my classes this term, resolved to the destruction of my GPA. This has caused me a great amount of stress. Both classes require a lot of work, and I'm all into time management and lists of things to do.
In my interdisciplanary class (IDS), my first discussion assignment resulted in an 86%. Yeah, that's a B, but I haven't gotten below a 94% on any assignment in the year I've been in school.
Last week, our first video blog was due. I really wasn't sure how I was going to get through it. I spent a lot of time writing the speech. That was the easy part. Recording--not so much. In the end, I had a beer, said fuck it, and read my speech into my phone (my webcam sucks).
I got my grade back yesterday.
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100%.
That brought my grade for the class up to a 96%. I nearly cried. So the videos are my strong suit, and my discussions are my weak point. Luckily discussions are only worth 40 points, and the videos are worth 100. Still doesn't quiet my anxiety when thinking of the video I have to make next week.
After my first few fiction workship assignments, I have a 93% in the class. I have to have at least a 93% to keep my 4.0 GPA at the end of the term. The rough draft of my story garnered a 91%. I can't even begin to describe how much I hate the way the score rough drafts. You are supposed to work on this story all year, adding techniques you learn each version. Problem is they grade the first draft as if it's the final draft. Since we haven't gone over every topic in the first week, not everything is up to final product standards so you get a crappy grade. You basically have to turn in a final draft for a rough draft to get a good grade. It pisses me off. We were supposed to focus on dialogue, but I got a bunch of points taken off for not having enough description even though we didn't start working on that until the week after the story was due.Grrr.
Now I'm nervous working on my 2nd revision because it won't include the other things we'll study later in the term so I won't get a good grade again. It's making me not want to write at all--too much pressure.
So far, though, I'm keeping up with both classes. It helps that last week when the video was due we didn't have a discussion topic (so only one thing to focus for that class), and this week with the revision due, we have no discussion topic in that class. Less things = less s tress.
In my interdisciplanary class (IDS), my first discussion assignment resulted in an 86%. Yeah, that's a B, but I haven't gotten below a 94% on any assignment in the year I've been in school.
Last week, our first video blog was due. I really wasn't sure how I was going to get through it. I spent a lot of time writing the speech. That was the easy part. Recording--not so much. In the end, I had a beer, said fuck it, and read my speech into my phone (my webcam sucks).
I got my grade back yesterday.
.
.
.
.
.
100%.
That brought my grade for the class up to a 96%. I nearly cried. So the videos are my strong suit, and my discussions are my weak point. Luckily discussions are only worth 40 points, and the videos are worth 100. Still doesn't quiet my anxiety when thinking of the video I have to make next week.
After my first few fiction workship assignments, I have a 93% in the class. I have to have at least a 93% to keep my 4.0 GPA at the end of the term. The rough draft of my story garnered a 91%. I can't even begin to describe how much I hate the way the score rough drafts. You are supposed to work on this story all year, adding techniques you learn each version. Problem is they grade the first draft as if it's the final draft. Since we haven't gone over every topic in the first week, not everything is up to final product standards so you get a crappy grade. You basically have to turn in a final draft for a rough draft to get a good grade. It pisses me off. We were supposed to focus on dialogue, but I got a bunch of points taken off for not having enough description even though we didn't start working on that until the week after the story was due.Grrr.
Now I'm nervous working on my 2nd revision because it won't include the other things we'll study later in the term so I won't get a good grade again. It's making me not want to write at all--too much pressure.
So far, though, I'm keeping up with both classes. It helps that last week when the video was due we didn't have a discussion topic (so only one thing to focus for that class), and this week with the revision due, we have no discussion topic in that class. Less things = less s
