I hate school. I don’t want to do it anymore. Can I just quit??? PLEASE??!!! Oh wait, then I’ve got $30K to pay back with no payoff degree. *sigh*
I just can’t seem to do it anymore. I’m so behind now, it’s truly scary. One class doesn’t penalize for late assignments, but another one does. Medical Terminology is the only one I’m on track in, but only because it’s just INSANELY easy and quick to do the assignments. Takes about an hour every week. Coding, on the other hand…
I love Coding. I truly do. I don’t know what my problem is! I think it could’ve been my midterm. Did NOT do so hot on that. Barely scraped a B-. But it did a number on my confidence in the class. Now, I just can’t make myself sit down to do it. I’m now 2 weeks behind, and wonder if my assignments are even going to be accepted. She’s pretty relaxed, but I don’t know. These are REALLY LATE!!
Oh, and can I just rant about my Medical Terminology instructor? She’s a complete and total control freak. She doesn’t really care about how well you do. It’s ALL about policy and procedure with her. If you’re 2 days late with an assignment, you get a 0. If you fail to turn in 2 assignments, you’re kicked out of the class!!!! This is what happened last semester, but it was JUST a small misunderstanding regarding schedual dates. I argued affectively, but she refused to give even an INCH!! So, of course, I had to retake it this semester and got the same anal instructor! I KNOW better this time around, and have an A in the class.
BUT, it has been an absolute NIGHTMARE in that class. I have quizzes every week that I have to take. Well, up until midterm, I was experiencing MADDENING delays and software conflicts that would deny me the ability to write answers after accessing the test. The problem with that, is that I would HAVE to exit out of it because it just locked up, and would have to wait and ask the instructor to reset it the next day. Every week, I was talking to I.T., and every week, I thought it was fixed. So, I would take it the last day it was due (since each quiz takes a whole 20 minutes – when it’s WORKING right), only to find the SAME FREAKING PROBLEM happening. Ok, to make a long story short, a combination of my brother’s computer expertise and I.T. FINALLY getting a clue, it was fixed. It was a conflict in the SCHOOL’S software, not mine.
NOW, I’ve discovered that for each time she had to reset the test, she deducted 10 points for lateness each of the five times it happened. That’s 50 points people! For something that wasn’t even my fault! So, needless to say, I will be politely requesting a retraction, with a CC to the dean (since she’s proven to be less than flexible).
Grrrrrr.
