<p>This thread is for everyone to tell the tales of times professors have gone the extra mile or done a complete no-no for you to help you out.</p>
<p>I had a C in intro-chemistry mid-last semester because I honestly didn’t care about the class. There wasn’t a single week that I didn’t miss class and some weeks I just didn’t go at all. But I was nice, and respectful towards my professor (which is rare for my school). I joked with him, talked to him during office hours, I tried really hard in the lab and when I actually did attend class, I was attentive and answered the questions (I actually knew the material, I had an A the semester before with a notoriously hard prof.).
But as finals approached, I was desperate to get at least a B, but I still couldn’t manage to get above a C on any of the tests.
During the final, I looked at the test and I knew I was royally screwed. But first, my prof. pointed out an answer when he saw I was struggling. Then he let me and a few others stay after the exam time. THEN after everyone had left and I was still struggling he took me to his office, wrote down the solution for the problem on his board and then left me in the room, alone, while he went to proctor his next exam.<br>
I ended up finishing with an A which was a total shock to me. So either there was some serious grade curving going on or some serious grade inflation.</p>
<p>^^ really depends on the class. If its one that I was stuggling then Id consider it (not necessarily do it)</p>
<p>My P1 teacher: a week before the final, I was failing the class. I went to him and explained to him my situation and asked if there was anyway he could keep me from failing. Since I was borderline passing, he told me told me to look over the practice exam and come back to him during the big review. Then after the review, he sat down with me and gave me a 1 on 1 session, going over everything I didnt understand, we even joked a bit and he learned a little bit about me. On that day, he told me to come back to him an hour before the final and finish up with whatever questions I had and keep reviewing the material. So I did that. During the final, I made it a point to sit in the front so that I could see him and be very inspired to do well. After the semester was over, I checked my grade, and it was a C!! (in exclamation since I wasnt expecting that). Not only had I gotten a B on the final and it was enough to pass, but he gave me a C. I was not expecting that at all. Even though my school is notorious for having crappy, nonchalant, arrogant science professors, he is the one science professor that give me the encouragement to stay in engineering and stay at my school and that I could do well. so uhh yea lol thats my good professor story</p>
<p>Wow I can’t believe your professor wrote down the answer and let you cheat like that! lucky</p>
<p>one time in bio lab, the TA was handing out the procedure/post-lab and she accidentally handed me her answer sheet. I didn’t even realize it because I wasn’t paying attention, but then I looked down and saw all the answers were filled in. My whole table got out of lab real early that day! : )</p>
<p>My posc teacher has called me multiple times to discuss my groups events and suggest speakers and a format, and called me to discuss articles I wrote for my column in the school paper. She is by far the hardest teacher on my department but she is willing to bend over backwards for her students. She grades based on what was the best answer to any given question, so it’s kind of a strange curve. She meets with students outsid eof office hours and attends events in which students are participating in and follows student activities. I checked the register after final grades were posted and saw I got a b. A couple hours after grades were posted she emailed me saying the register made a mistake and I had an a. She hounded the register and they had it changed the next day.</p>
<p>Well back in '95 when I lived in Boston, I was a janitor at MIT and I just kept solving the math equations on the boards… One professor took the time to find me, bail me out of jail, guide me in my way in math, and set me up with a valuable psychologist (and friend). He really turned my life around.</p>
In an anatomy class I received a lab exams back with an answer misgraded, I was given credit for an answer I got wrong. I told the professor knowing it would be the difference between a B and an A in the class (no rounding and I was only a few points behind an A). The professor made a point of telling me how impressed he was while he gave me my B.</p>
<p>ok maybe what I did was wrong, but she GAVE ME THE ANSWERS, what was I to do??! Pretend I didn’t see them? Give them back to her? That was not what I did.</p>
<p>That’s not the only bad thing I’ve done in college either. Another time in the library I found $5 and didn’t give it to security. I kept it. And bought lunch with it that very day. I know, you’re thinking I’m a badass, this may be true. </p>
<p>But one time in HS I found a whole wallet in the cafeteria and gave it to security, so it all evens out, right? That wallet had more than $5, it had at least $8, plus a library card!</p>
<p>a) Our professors usually have a policy of not taking off points for a misgrade, but are willing to add points on.
b) As this is an anonymous internet forum and not an actual conversation with people who would judge me, I would use the attached answers. I don’t know or care if it’s wrong; college is hard and I’ll take all the help I can get.</p>
<p>OP: dont be offended when I ask you this, but do you think you deserved that A? Do you feel guilty at all? In my honest opinion (and again, don’t be offended) I understand you desperately tried towards the end to at least get a B but the fact of the matter is you skipped classes - maybe you deserve a B for effort and stuff, but an A? Wish life was as easy for me in my tough classes</p>
<p>I’m not offended. Not I don’t think I deserved it, but I don’t feel guilty. I think my prof graded me on my attitude and what he believed I could/should have gotten in the course had I actually tried rather than for what I actually did.</p>
<p>And as for the skipped classes, I know its no excuse, but 8 o’clock was just too damn early for chem, lol.</p>