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Bah, I say
Nov. 28th, 2008 11:53 amI now present to you the saga of the dealings between me and one of my lecturers this semester, who just happened to be the lecturer in charge for two of my three subjects.
Day One of Semester: I miss the first lecture of my class due to being at the hospital. I then head to uni so as to try to attend my first tutorial for the same subject, arrive 15 minutes late, and then about half an hour later get a call from my mother telling me to get my ass back to said hospital. I don't attempt to talk to the lecturer due to not wanting to break down in front of him.
Day Two of Semester: I email the lecturer explaining my circumstances and basically just asking in advance for leniency about possibly missing classes.
Days Three to about Two Weeks Later: No reply from lecturer. I conclude that he's an asshole and I'm on my own, but screw him, I'm gonna pass his subjects despite his bastardry.
The Next Day: He replies, and he's all warm and understanding in the email, and apologetic for not reading the email sooner. I take back my above conclusion.
Some Weeks Later: I talk to him about lodging a Special Consideration Form in regards to death certificates and so forth, he says to lodge it and then at the end if my marks are dodgy he'll see about offering me some kind of supplementary or something.
Rest of Semester: I never actually get around to lodging those forms. I also never get around to writing my final essay for the harder of his two subjects, because it's wanky philosophy of language stuff which would be hard to get motivated for even under the best of circumstances. Which these are certainly not.
A Week after Semester end, during the middle of the Exam Period: I get a call on my mobile from the lecturer. He verifies with me that I didn't hand in a final essay and then offers me an alternate essay, where I do the same exercise but analysing a different paper instead. I gratefully accept and he tells me to email him and he'll send the paper back as an attachment.
I email him the next day, and then again about a week later. No reply. I know by now that he's bad with email but it seems like a cruel joke of sorts to offer me an alternate assessment and then not actually give me a way to complete it.
Two or Three Weeks Later: Course marks are out. In desperation I email him one final time, being careful not to be accusatory but basically asking what the hell is going on and can I do the alternate assessment or not. He replies the very next day with the promised attachment.
I think I've learnt a valuable lesson about not taking any other courses given by this guy. I really do appreciate that he gave me a second chance, but it's uni policy that communication should be able to happen via email. It just drove me nuts that he's so damn unreliable at it, and in several ways I would have preferred to just fail the subject and be done with it rather than having this hanging over me.
Day One of Semester: I miss the first lecture of my class due to being at the hospital. I then head to uni so as to try to attend my first tutorial for the same subject, arrive 15 minutes late, and then about half an hour later get a call from my mother telling me to get my ass back to said hospital. I don't attempt to talk to the lecturer due to not wanting to break down in front of him.
Day Two of Semester: I email the lecturer explaining my circumstances and basically just asking in advance for leniency about possibly missing classes.
Days Three to about Two Weeks Later: No reply from lecturer. I conclude that he's an asshole and I'm on my own, but screw him, I'm gonna pass his subjects despite his bastardry.
The Next Day: He replies, and he's all warm and understanding in the email, and apologetic for not reading the email sooner. I take back my above conclusion.
Some Weeks Later: I talk to him about lodging a Special Consideration Form in regards to death certificates and so forth, he says to lodge it and then at the end if my marks are dodgy he'll see about offering me some kind of supplementary or something.
Rest of Semester: I never actually get around to lodging those forms. I also never get around to writing my final essay for the harder of his two subjects, because it's wanky philosophy of language stuff which would be hard to get motivated for even under the best of circumstances. Which these are certainly not.
A Week after Semester end, during the middle of the Exam Period: I get a call on my mobile from the lecturer. He verifies with me that I didn't hand in a final essay and then offers me an alternate essay, where I do the same exercise but analysing a different paper instead. I gratefully accept and he tells me to email him and he'll send the paper back as an attachment.
I email him the next day, and then again about a week later. No reply. I know by now that he's bad with email but it seems like a cruel joke of sorts to offer me an alternate assessment and then not actually give me a way to complete it.
Two or Three Weeks Later: Course marks are out. In desperation I email him one final time, being careful not to be accusatory but basically asking what the hell is going on and can I do the alternate assessment or not. He replies the very next day with the promised attachment.
I think I've learnt a valuable lesson about not taking any other courses given by this guy. I really do appreciate that he gave me a second chance, but it's uni policy that communication should be able to happen via email. It just drove me nuts that he's so damn unreliable at it, and in several ways I would have preferred to just fail the subject and be done with it rather than having this hanging over me.
