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Have I ruined my chances of passing?
PixelMonkey
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Well today I was chasing up one my lecturers about why I didn't receive marks for one of my assignments when everyone else did. He asked about how I seemed to be always stressing. I mentioned that I have a quite bad anxiety problem when I mentioned this I did get a little misty on the eyes. Not tears just a little watering after this he mentioned how he was asking cause someone students nag at the their lecturers (apparently me ringing about the assignment submission site being down once counts as nagging).
So I worry about me mentioning the anxiety problem as a form of manipulation against him?
edit: I was following him up so at the very least I would have he assignment marked down as submitted as all need to be handed in to pass the unit.
So I worry about me mentioning the anxiety problem as a form of manipulation against him?
edit: I was following him up so at the very least I would have he assignment marked down as submitted as all need to be handed in to pass the unit.
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Yep you've got anxiety issues. Your university should have a special department to deal with special needs students, don't feel any shame in talking to them because everyone should have a fair shot at completing their education.
I believe the thing with therapists is that if it isn't working even though you're giving it your best you should go and see another. A different approach, a fresh pair of eyes and a different personality might help you a lot.
Also, you will not have been the first student who has been teary-eyed in front of him. Shit, I got three in my first ever term as a teaching assistant.
Talk to your therapist about this.
You're attending university, right?
They should have counsellors you can see right on campus. For free.
Really, not worth it. This is the sort of communication email was for. Or going to speak to him in person.
What exactly did you think was going to happen if the submission site wasn't up? That you would be penalized for the university's failing? You're showing a lack of understanding of reasonable results, even now (when I presume you are not anxious about it).
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As someone with Bipolar II, Anxiety, and OCD, turning to pills was one of the best things I ever did. They won't solve all your problems, but they can help you get through the day, and sleep a lot better at night.
Get a referral to a psychiatrist from your GP or therapist. Seriously. It's their job to help people with this kind of thing.
Think of it this way: if you broke your arm, you'd want some painkillers, right? Well, your brain isn't doing well. Get some help for it.
Did you take it at midnight under the new moon while bathing in water from the stump of a tree?
Seriously, your issues have passed beyond the realm of normalcy and medication is a perfectly viable option for coping with those issues. Also, most professors HATE grade grubbers and needy students, and you should be working to build a relationship with your profs, not destroy them.
Most schools have this available and I definitely agree with utilizing this resource.
You're doing it again.
You can't get failed because your lecturer doesn't like you. Collage doesn't work like that. They usually have two different people marking assignments for this exact reason so even if he did fancy being unprofessional enough to get himself sacked the other person marking your assignment would ask why he marked you so poorly.
I dunno which university you go to, but every one I have been to/worked at, assignments were marked by the lecturer and/or his assistants. It's actually really easy to change someone's grade just because you don't like them.
That said, you have to work hard for the lecturer to remember your face and your name and have pissed them off enough for it to be a problem.
Alright mate first thing I wasn't grade grubbing or whatever you want to call it, all I was doing was following up a problem that had occurred, which considering I had submitted the assignment in to the correct account, listed on the site and had a copy of the receipt on my hard drive saying yeah assignment has been dropped off at so and so time , it is so and so size of the 10mb upload limit. In short I know I dropped it off.
You need to:
a) Chill the fuck out
b) Realize that the people here are telling you the truth, you are the one with the warped sense of perspective
At mine it was marked by two different lecturers. And even if you were in a university that corrupt you could file a complaint that you're being marked unfairly and have your paper marked by someone else. If it came up that he had marked you significantly lower than you should have been questions would be asked of his professionalism.
Bottom line it wouldn't be worth a lecturer risking his career just to give a student he doesn't like a crappy grade.
I don't understand where you went to school. Do you even know how hard it is to fire a professor? Even one without Tenure? Trust me, he's not risking anything by harshly grading a students work.
Not that I think this will happen, but your college experience is NOT how education is typically done in the U.S.
But I would assume what's been said about disability and counselling is a school service/consideration common in each of these nations.
And Sentry's claims about tenure apply almost exclusively to the US and Canada.
But yay for cultural assumptions!
Good thing I'm English and got my undergraduate at a British university and worked in the NZ system and now I do a PhD in the American system then!
British universities take examinations very seriously (anonomization, marking by two lecturers, etc). NZ/US did not do anything like that, and NZ system is similar to Aus. Even in the UK, coursework is marked by one lecturer, so it's very easy to take marks away here and there. Basically, only the most corrupt professor that's looking to lose his/her job would try and change your grade because he/she doesn't like you, but the more you piss them off, the less likely they are to give you the benefit of the doubt come marking time.
This is our system too. There are plenty of measures in place to make sure you get the grade you deserve. If that is the system in Australia it would seem he's safe.
I don't understand. Is he saying you never submitted it? If it's there, it's there. Otherwise email him the copy of "the receipt". What's the issue?
Sorry I'm having a bit of trouble concentrating at the moment didn't sleep at all last night. Basically he was saying that he has got a copy of the piece of work. But he then goes on to mention he hasn't decided what he's going to about the submission whether he's going to give me an actual mark or just mark it down as handed in if he does that. Apparently he forgot completely about it during the course of the week.
This makes absolutely no sense. He has it. He got it on time (correct?). But he's "not sure" what he wants to do with it? Why would he not grade it?
You aren't making sense. If you submitted an assignment and everyone except you has recieved their results for it and he says he is tryign to decide whether to mark it, something is wrong.
I think you just need to forget about it for now. He has the assignment. You submitted it and have proof of this. The mark will arrive eventually. You are just stressing out over nothing. Ignore it. Its not like you need to know the mark right now or you will fail.
I think the OP has issues of some sort. No professor would ever say "Oh, and the assignment is due RIGHT NOW." or something along those lines.
I have a feeling the prof did mention it but someone wasn't paying attention.