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Tuesday, 08 May 2007

  • Wisdom Teeth

    As of 9AM this morning I lost my wisdom... teeth. Be praying for a quick recovery and no complications. I have until sunday to fully recover in order to play bassoon on the worship team and work that night (followed by school restarting for the summer on monday).

Saturday, 05 May 2007

  • The Resolution

    Well, the grade is resolved. Turns out my professor had down I recieved a 38 instead of a 48 on one of my speeches. I found the speech, scanned it, and emailed it to her. This brought me up to a 313 out of 350, a whoppin 2 points from an A-. My professor doesn't do favors for extra points, but lucky for me she has a 'not outspoken' policy that she bumps up anyone 5 points away from the next grade to the next grade.

    B -> A-

    Woohoo!

Friday, 04 May 2007

  • Grade Realities

    Course

    Class Name

    Official Grade

    Units

    CHM 2210

    ORGANIC CHEM I

    A

    3.00

    MUS 3930H

    HON SPECIAL TOPIC

    A-

    3.00

    PCB 3063H

    HON GENETICS

    B+

    3.00

    SPC 1600H

    HONORS FUND COMM

    B

    3.00

    ZOO 3733C

    HUMAN ANATOMY

    B

    4.00


     
    Alright, everything was going smoothly until now. I got an A- in opera, big deal. The B+ in genetics knocks it out. However..... HOW THE HECK DID I GET A B IN SPEECH?

    Here's the email I sent to my speech professor about it:


    Dear Dr. Hastings,

    I would like to discuss with you how I recieved the grade I did in your class as my final average. According to myucf I have a "B" and I'd like to know how exactly I got this grade. I rummaged all of my paperwork from the class this semester and I'm puzzled how my grade dipped. This is what I have:

    Assignment Pts Received Pts Possible
    Cultural Diversity Speech 24 25
    Informative Speech ? 50
    Persuasive Speech 70 75
    Exam I 42 50
    Exam II 46.5 50
    Final Exam ? 50
    Consultant Paper 21 24
    Library Assignment 9 10
    Illogical Fallacy 10 10


    I was unable to find my paper for my informative speech, but I believe the grade was a 48 or 49. Please correct me if I am in the wrong for this grade. By doing the calculations (assuming I got a 48 on my informative speech), I insofar have 270.5 points out of a possible 294 (there seems to be 6 points' worth of assignments I cannot seem to find to add up to 300 prior to the final exam).  Now by adding in 3% of 350 (as I recieved the "Most Organized Speaker" Award), which comes out to 10.5 I now have 281 points out of a possible 294. Being but 17 points away from having the maximum amount of points for the class before the final exam, I am most perplexed as to how poorly I must have done on the final exam in order to drop so low.

    My questions are as follows: Where are the last 6 assignment points? Also, what did I get on my final that dropped me so low?

    I am terribly confused. This has been the first time in my academic career that I feel like something's not calculated right, but I would like to recieve your input as to how I was graded. I truly enjoyed your class and I'm a bit surprised how it ended like this.

    I was absent for 2 classes and late by roughly 5 minutes for a third, so I know I didn't lose 5% for absences.

    Thank you in advance for your time clarifying all of this.

    Sincerely,
    Daryl Balluff


    This is seriously messed up. I was guaranteed an A in this class. What happened?

    Some happy birthday...

Thursday, 03 May 2007

  • And the winner is...

     Grade Predictions:

    Genetics: B
    Anatomy: B
    Speech: A
    Opera: A
    Organic Chem: A

    9(4) + 7(3) = 57/16 = 3.5625

    Dean's list, wooooooo!
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    So much else to think about, so much going on. Mike's getting married on friday and I'm the best man. Rehearsal dinner tonight, birthday with Kelly saturday, work sunday, family birthday monday, wisdom teeth removed tuesday... should bring me to summer school beginning on the next monday. So much for a break before school again.

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