Sue22

I'd say it's time to grow up and take responsibility for your own life and work. Walk to the store. Do the presentation without handholding from the professor.

SingDanceRunLife

I can't walk to the store (pedestrians aren't allowed on the roads that go to the store), and my professor encouraged us to send her our Ppts beforehand. So buzz off.

Sue22

Sure, I'll leave you to whine about how other people aren't doing enough to help you.

ijamjl

You'll make a great teacher.

SingDanceRunLife

I don't want to be a teacher. At least not one for older students. If I were to continue with education, it would be early childhood ed, and I would want to work with 2-5 year olds at the oldest.

Excavalier

qft

welcome to the real world

intparent

Let's see... in the past few days you have started posts whining about your grades, lack of a car, and no heat in your dorm room. This is getting old...

soccergurl7988

This would usually be where the flounce occurs...

Big10Champ

Your instructor has already made it clear that she's not changing the grade. To me that sounds like an endpoint on the discussion. Done. Finito.

Could you contest the grade... sure. But do you really want to do that for a FIVE (five!) point assignment? I don't think so.

Use this as a learning experience (ha.........) and do what you didn't do this time around on the next assignment.

feedback411

^ This.

OP: Grow up. Your complaints about college are nothing compared to what people face in the real word.

No matter how many times you say a 4/5 is a "HUGE DEAL", it's really NOT. Professors aren't going to baby you. Next time you do a presentation, THINK it through thoroughly. Don't ask your professor a vague question and expect her to tell you everything that needs to be done to get full points. You need to make your own judgments.

And I honestly don't know why some people have the need to make threads, asking for opinions, and then proceed to argue against every response that doesn't agree with them. Telling people to "buzz off" when they give you their opinion is freaking rude - why the hell did you make the thread in the first place?

So yeah um.. grow up?

SingDanceRunLife's next thread:
"My college books are too expensive!! Ugh. I don't want to spend $50 on dirty, overused books!!! Ugh. Is this fair for me?! Ugh. I don't think so. Ugh!!"

SingDanceRunLife

My group worked hard on our presentation, and we fulfilled the requirements for it 100%.

feedback411

Lol, exactly the type of response I would expect from you.

What may have been "hard work" to you and your group could have looked insufficient to the professor. It doesn't matter if you guys fulfilled the requirements 100%. In high school, you would've received an A. In college, you need to not only fulfill the requirements but ALSO complete the assignment in an outstanding way. Who determines if it was outstanding or not? Your professor. Get it now?

God I feel like I'm speaking to a five year old. Except even five year-olds aren't as annoying and stubborn as this.

SingDanceRunLife

This class is taught like a high school course. Sometimes I feel like it's more of a middle school course. My professor literally spoon feeds us everything, has assigned seating, constantly reminds us of all the assignments we have and when they're due, and tells us what work we have missing. So I'm sorry that I expect things to be a certain way, but that's how this class is.

soccergurl7988

It doesn't matter how nice the professor is in other areas of the classroom, when it comes to grading, it's their standards and NOT yours. I've had plenty of professors who had assigned seating (helps them learn names and prevent exam cheating), reminded us about assignments, and told us if we had something missing (to make sure it wasn't a grading error or that they'd lost something). At the same time, some of these professors were the hardest graders because they expected a high quality of work. I can't wait to see your threads when you go to grad school, because you're in for a real treat

juillet

Professors in college don't always strictly translate things the way you think they would - i.e., 4/5 = 80. That's high school stuff. I worked for a professor as a TA; there was a paper she wanted us to grade on a 10-point scale. The average was a 6/10; that was a B-ish grade. No one ever got a 10/10 and very few students got a 9/10. Before you assume there's a huge difference, you should ask.

Also, as others have mentioned - you don't get a perfect score in college for doing things exactly the way the professor tells you. Merely fulfilling the requirements is C-level stuff (and in today's grade-inflated world, maybe B-level). If I ask students to do a presentation, I expect them to already know that they need to use data to back up their assertions. Otherwise, it's just me listening to your opinions for 5-15 minutes. That's a given for high school level work, much less college-level work.

In the adult world, if you made a presentation without any data or statistics to back up your assertions, you could lose your company money and clients. And if your excuse is "no one told me I needed that," your boss would begin to seriously question your maturity and competence.