Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Grade Grubbing

Last night I got back my second paper from my Tuesday night class (Social Welfare and Policy) and the teacher wrote "Excellent. Sorry I can't think of a more critical comment."

Excellent! My work is excellent!

I'm so pleased. Really. Last night, despite having a cold and being exhausted, I could not stop smiling.

Even better, the professor used my paper as an example of "what to do." Well, he didn't say, "Melissa did an excellent job and we all so do as well as her paper," but I could tell. Actually, he did say that one paper was 19 pages and that was "correct" length our papers should be at. Mine is 19 pages! And then he added that some people did not have enough references and that one student had nearly 25 references. I had 24! (Yes, I counted in class.)

So, I'm very happy. The other class is doing well, also. Last week our essays were returned and I had a 9 out of 10. Not "excellent" but I'm very happy with that. It's still an A. Woot!

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