My third year in college ended three weeks ago. Well, it should've ended three weeks ago. I was enrolled in three classes, which made my finals week cram much less stressful. I made notecards as usual, went to all my review sessions and finished all three finals. I did well, at least I felt like I did well walking away from all of them but one.
Thermodynamics. It was kind of like nightmare, haunting me. I had dropped it a year ago because I wanted to get on Dean's list (which I did get on). This quarter, there would be no Dean's List. I knew that. I was just trying to get a D anyway.
He based the test on the homework, so I studied my printed out solutions for a couple hours. I was one of the last ones to get the exam, he ran out on my row. It's always the anticipation that kills me. When I'm taking the test, I'm not nervous or anything but those moments before the test when you have all those equations, theory, problems running through your mind are a killer. I finally got the exam and poof. Blank. By my calculations I needed a 20/40 on the final to get a D in the class. When I handed it in 2 hours later I was hoping for a D-.
A week later, the unthinkable happened. My thermo professor decided it'd be a good idea to make the midterm worth nothing and make the final worth 90% of the grade. Gee, if I had known that maybe I would've tried a little harder.
It ended up working in my favor though because he curved the class a little bit which helped me (look at the pitiful means on some of those tests 
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I ended up with a C in the class and with only two grades a mystery I was feeling pretty good. I had an A+ going into my ESS55 class and a C+ going into my CEE110 class, so things were all good...
And then grades came out.
Uh.. NR? Great. Thanks to Loc's advice, I checked which professors were late with turning in their grades. Ok, no error on my final or anything. It turns out he didn't turn in grades for anybody.
Hi guys,Many of you may have seen that you all got NR ("No report") grades for CEE110 for now. Well, I couldn't do anything about finalizing the grades as Lawrence made a booboo and forgot to attach the spreadsheet to me in his email on Tuesday and seems to be still away from his email (I wonder where he went on vacation - like in some remote corner of North Dakota or something? -- he still has not seen my urgent emails in the last 4-5 days). So I do not have the grades for the final homework. Inadvertant mistake by him, as he did email me well on time, on Tuesday. I immediately replied that the attachment was missing, but he must have juiist dashed out on vacation or something.
Anyway, I informed the registrar's office that I will finalize the grades and submit as soon as I hear from Lawrence.
If any of you see Lawrence anywhere, please tie him up and take him to a computer, please
.. Sorry folks, I don't know what we can do for now; but I am sure we will hear from Lawrence soon, and I will email you the grades.
Jay
Hi folks,I had emails asking if the NR grades will automatically turn to F and all that. No, don't worry; this is not due to your fault, so none of you will have any problems.
I did hear from Lawrence yesterday. He is coming back to town only by July 9th. Will try to see if there is anyway to get this done before that ( because it turns out that we will have to fill up 88 individual grade change sheets after July 7th .. Horror for us!) ..
But, it will be done at least by the end of the July 10th week. Regardless of when it gets done, none of you will be running into any trouble. If any of you need a letter from me for any urgent reasons (GPA for scholarship/financial loans etc), let me know.
Regards,
Dr. Jay
I then get these two e-mails. Horror! It's July 7th today.
Part of me hopes the grades don't show up today. Part of me hopes that someone has to fill out eighty eight grade sheets. The quarter was supposed to end three weeks ago. What's another couple of days now?
UPDATE!
It's 8:23PM right now. I haven't received any e-mails or indication that the grades have been filed, which means that somebody has to fill out 88 individual grade sheets. Let's hope mine is on the top of the pile.