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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Yesterday i was faced with something new and devistatingly different in my life.
I panicked in my math final and did miserably.....
I did not pass the course as a result..... I have never not passed a course ever.....
I have never had below an A-
I don't know how to handle this.... I have been puking all day....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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ProfZodiac
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Location: United States
Registered: August 2006
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Kurt Vonnegut would offer just a three word answer:
So it goes.
There's nothing you can gain from worrying over it now. The class is over, and you didn't do as well as you'd hoped. Shit happens. But dwelling too much on the shit that happened makes more shit happen. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, and those are a terrible habit to get into.
Take another math class, and attack it with a vengeance. Let the old one go, forget about the shit that happened and focus on making this next one work.
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... but I feel for you, Marc.
To say 'been there, done that, got the T-shirt' would be trite, but I've been close enough. There has to be a better way of assessing potential than by subjecting students to stress levels greater than anything they are likely to confront in real life.
Don't give up - follow your dream!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Oh dear!
Over here, when an exam result is inconsistent with a student's usual performance there are things that can be done about it. I have even seen the results of a complete school re-assessed (and the marks increased) when enough of the teachers have said "Oh no! There should have been five or six 'A's in that class and you have only given two 'B's among the lot.
At Oxford there is a thing called 'aegrotat' (which I think means 'he was ill' in Latin) and by that means some people can even get a degree if they were too ill to take all or part of their finals.
I suggest you talk to your teacher about it.
Of course there may be a chance of taking it again.
I do feel for you. I went to Oxford with an open major scholarship and ended up with a third class degree! (Of course, in my case I deserved it because I was too interested in such things as sex to work as hard as I should have done.)
Love
Anthony
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Wrong!
Kurt Vonnegut would have written 'And so it goes'. FOUR words.
Love
Anthony
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Not really....
As for recourse here, there is none, nor do I want any sort of special treatment. I already have decided to retake the course with the same instructor next fall.
Really?
When were you there?
I went to Oxford between 1972 and 1976..... Graduated with double degrees in Philosophy and Early English Literature.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I was at Oriel college from 1955 to 1958 and read PPE but I emphasised the philosophy greatly and did half my exams in it and far more than half my time. Which college did you go to?
Love
Anthony
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Lincoln mainly.... but in some instances took various course lectures and seminars in various placed throughout the UK.....
We were also very active in the gay movement of the time...... and that kept us on the move as well......
As my partner went to school in London and we lived in the Cavendish circle area of London, i had to commute back and forth from home which was somewhat of a hassle......
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Marc, I didn't realise we'd overlapped!
I was (at least in theory) at school in Oxford up to the summer of '73, and back there frequently for several years afterwards.
We may well have passed each other if you went to gigs: Commander Cody at the Oxford Poly, Rory Gallagher at Oxford Town Hall, the Mayfly free festivals on May morning, or the amazing hippy bands including Planet Gong in the University Church of St. Mary (the Parochial Church Council gave us hell for the effect of bubbles from a bubble machine on their thirteenth-century woodwork!).
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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