Professor problems, any advice on how to deal with him/it?
My organic professor has yet to grade any of our labs. We are now in what, week 10 or 11 of the semester? He teaches several sections, so he must have a veritable mountain of paperwork in his office, if we're lucky maybe he will be lost in a cave in or avalanche and we'll get a different instructor. :roll:
He is going to get to them though, he says so every week and has for the last month, so I know he is, honest. :rolleyes: Personally I don't think he has time to get to them though, not before the end of this semester anyhow, and certainly not giving them the attention they deserve, and on top of all this, I don't think he should grade them. If he isn't going to return graded labs as feedback, so we can feel him out and figure out how he wants his labs formated, then he shouldn't be grading them 2/3 of the way though the semester. What if I've been making the same mistake on all of them all this time? What's he going to do, count off for every time when if he'd returned labs graded on time we could see what we were doing wrong, correct mistakes, step it up or down as needed, etc. At this point I think all that would be fair would be to give completion grades, if you were there and did the lab and turned in a report, then you get full points.
Our labs constitute 30% of our grade. :C
We have till 5:00pm on the 9th, if so inclined, to drop, change to audit, etc, after that date it won't happen without executive act of god type happening.
I talked with him again today. We hemmed and hawwed back and forth a bit, until finally he gave an equation we could use to give a rough idea of our grade in the class. For our lab grades he said just to use 85%, he didn't think they'd go lower than that. Then he said to be safe to use 80%. According to this formula I have a B in the class.
The guy is a skunk though, he's wack, a regular Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, one of my fellow classmates commented today he should be on medication.
I don't trust for a second that 80% is the bottom line. I'll get past the 9th, I'll get my grades back, and I'll be totally screwed and there won't be anything to do about it. So the only thing I see to do is drop if we don't have grades by the drop date. I have put so much time, effort, and $$ into this class though, I want to finish it just to spite him, its like if I quite he's won.
Another problem with quitting is he's the only one that teaches it at this campus and I swear I will sharpen the ends of paintbrushes and shove them into my brain via my eyeballs before I take this guy again. He causes pain on so many mental levels, he pushes buttons I didn't know I had, he is so unfair and sexist you almost can't believe your eyes and yet I have his tests and know his operandi modus so it almost makes no sense not to take him if I have to take it again, especially since I haven't actually learned anything in this class. This has been a learning experience like none other.
At this point I'm almost physically sick, I'm not seeing much hope of getting a grade before the 9th. I know I can pass the class, but I'm not willing to take less than a B. I can't. My GPA is a 3.25, if it goes any lower I won't stand a snowballs change in hell of getting into my program of choice, I'll spend the next three years reapplying and reapplying hoping to they will get tired of seeing my name and let me in. I've known people with 3.7 and higher that got turned down.
I know I could leverage around and complain to the right people and probably get grades, but I don't want to force his hand as I have no doubt if forced his grades will reflect that and for sure he will be .
And on top of all of this he seems like such a nice guy. :no: