Annoying me. But will it matter long term?

mjr2013
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 19:29:47 +0000

Grades are beginning to post for my winter semester. I go to a community college, where I had a 3.95 GPA coming into this semester, my last at CC. All A’s and three A-'s from 2013 and 2014.

Going into the last week, I had a 92% in my Spanish II class. Verge of A-/A. A part of the class is basically online busy work, completing about 30 worksheets, just for participation, which made up about 20% of the grade, 4% per chapter. I really hated it, but I did it anyway, because of the points tied to it. The last week, these were due the same day that I had a tire blow out on the freeway, had to get $1500 of work done on my car afterwards, had all my other finals to worry about, and it didn’t get done. I just totally and completely forgot. It’s not a good excuse, because it was assigned plenty of time in advance, but it IS just busy work. You could literally just look the answers up online if you want to.

I was hoping my professor would take pity on me, see that I got a 100% on the quiz associated with the homework, and give me a grade based on knowledge (which would be an A-/A) not what the points broke down to, but I checked today, and she gave me a B+, my only ‘B’ of any kind since high school.

It sucks, and I’m pretty annoyed both with myself and the professor, but it’s not like I can do anything about it, because the math, syllabus, and course outlines are all on her side. It just sucks. My GPA will probably drop to about a 3.85 after this semester, as I will finish with 3 A’s, an A- (in Anatomy/Physiology), and that stupid B+.

I do have either grad school (for psychology of some sort) or med school in mind for my future. Will this last semester drop at my community college greatly impact my chances when that time comes?