College: Getting my marks back
Jun. 19th, 2007 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethAm at college. Got here all on my own. Which was a process I do not look forward to repeating. The bus is hot and crowded and the seats are nasty and it looked like someone had thrown chocolate milk on a lot of them. Hopefully chocolate.
And then the walk between bus stop and college made my leg hurt, which is irritating.
And then when I went to find the room to get my folder back someone bombed me with large bag of laundry. Which is not a hazard one generally expects from college corridors. They didn't hit me, and judging by the squeals and OMGs they aren't going to make that particular error again, but it did not enhance my calm, I can tell you.
Meeting teach to sign up for next year and get my folder back was nice. I got good grades, 66%, and that was without really trying so win. Personal Development Plan and Portfolio, to go with the Presentation. Apparently our group did really well at the presentation compared to other groups, because we never had meltdowns or arguing or stomping off in high drama. Cool. And our division of work was useful. And basically I did good.
Teach has a plan for if/when I do Work Study, which was a unit that had been bugging me in concept. She reckons I can do copy editing, something nice and precise and quiet and computer based. I reckon I could do that too, probably. Cool.
She also approves of my plan to write for Doctor Who.
:-)
PDP and Portfolio... Her only 'could improve' comment was about appropriate register for academic language, and how one should avoid words like "wanker".
... slightly startled I hurriedly looked through the folder and learned once again that one should never pack work for handing in at an hour beginning with a 0. Also one should mark drafts clearly, possibly with putting a big line through them, because otherwise they get marked. I tell you, teach read and commented on everything in that folder that wasn't a handout from college. It's... a valuable learning experience. Luckily she seemed to like it all, but I'll never just throw in things that look vaguely relevant to pad out a folder again.
On the other hand she now has a fairly accurate and well rounded idea of what I'm like.
... yeah, scary ...
But also useful - the PDP served the secondary purpose of educating teach in my Issues, and now she has more plans for helping. Win!
Also, I like my tutor more having read all the little comments in the margins. She also hates ring binders and files things under the bed. It's kind of reassuring.
So, she reckons she'd have heard if I hadn't passed, which makes getting my paper back for IntroLit2 fairly stress free.
Therefore I passed my first year at college.
:-) :-) :-)
Have signed up for the other half of the first year next year. Intro Cult Studs (sadly just means Cultural Studies, but is so much more fun typing it that way. Also I want a t-shirt with DW and TW characters on with Cult Studs on it. To wear to class next year. Except it's probably not amusing to very many people at all. And also I'd have to nick copyrighted images) (that bracket got a bit carried away), Intro Movies, Kidlit (Childrens literature, with nice tutor), and... well, it might be Short Story but on the form I signed it says Individual Study, which seems like a bit little but I'll sort it out later if it needs sorting.
/blog
-> pick up exam results
And then the walk between bus stop and college made my leg hurt, which is irritating.
And then when I went to find the room to get my folder back someone bombed me with large bag of laundry. Which is not a hazard one generally expects from college corridors. They didn't hit me, and judging by the squeals and OMGs they aren't going to make that particular error again, but it did not enhance my calm, I can tell you.
Meeting teach to sign up for next year and get my folder back was nice. I got good grades, 66%, and that was without really trying so win. Personal Development Plan and Portfolio, to go with the Presentation. Apparently our group did really well at the presentation compared to other groups, because we never had meltdowns or arguing or stomping off in high drama. Cool. And our division of work was useful. And basically I did good.
Teach has a plan for if/when I do Work Study, which was a unit that had been bugging me in concept. She reckons I can do copy editing, something nice and precise and quiet and computer based. I reckon I could do that too, probably. Cool.
She also approves of my plan to write for Doctor Who.
:-)
PDP and Portfolio... Her only 'could improve' comment was about appropriate register for academic language, and how one should avoid words like "wanker".
... slightly startled I hurriedly looked through the folder and learned once again that one should never pack work for handing in at an hour beginning with a 0. Also one should mark drafts clearly, possibly with putting a big line through them, because otherwise they get marked. I tell you, teach read and commented on everything in that folder that wasn't a handout from college. It's... a valuable learning experience. Luckily she seemed to like it all, but I'll never just throw in things that look vaguely relevant to pad out a folder again.
On the other hand she now has a fairly accurate and well rounded idea of what I'm like.
... yeah, scary ...
But also useful - the PDP served the secondary purpose of educating teach in my Issues, and now she has more plans for helping. Win!
Also, I like my tutor more having read all the little comments in the margins. She also hates ring binders and files things under the bed. It's kind of reassuring.
So, she reckons she'd have heard if I hadn't passed, which makes getting my paper back for IntroLit2 fairly stress free.
Therefore I passed my first year at college.
:-) :-) :-)
Have signed up for the other half of the first year next year. Intro Cult Studs (sadly just means Cultural Studies, but is so much more fun typing it that way. Also I want a t-shirt with DW and TW characters on with Cult Studs on it. To wear to class next year. Except it's probably not amusing to very many people at all. And also I'd have to nick copyrighted images) (that bracket got a bit carried away), Intro Movies, Kidlit (Childrens literature, with nice tutor), and... well, it might be Short Story but on the form I signed it says Individual Study, which seems like a bit little but I'll sort it out later if it needs sorting.
/blog
-> pick up exam results