And on a much lighter note, some other things.

[hopefulnebula]

So, I only have one class on Mondays and Wednesdays. There's also the Monday meeting where they make sure everyone's all right after the weekend and occasionally make announcements or dole out cash, but that doesn't count as a class. On Wednesday we took a midterm in that class, and I knew after the fact that I'd either done really well or really poorly. Either way, the midterm was one question: "What makes the European Union a union?" The professor (who is one of the pickiest people on the planet but also one of the fairest) even let us type our essays. Good thing, because after three hours of writing by hand, especially with a rough and final draft, my hands totally give out and my handwriting becomes even more write-only than usual.

We got our exams back today.

He spent the last ten minutes of class outlining what he'd have written for the essay and where we collectively went wrong, and I spent that entire time going "ohshit ohshit ohshit ohshit I didn't do it that way." Then he said "More importantly, not many of you stuck to the question the entire time. If I wanted to know the entire history of the European Union, I'd have asked that." And I relaxed a bit. Not much, though. Then he wrote the spread of grades on the board. One A, two A-minuses, a few B-pluses, about 12 Bs and B-minuses, and a few lower grades, but nothing worse than C-minus.

And then he said, "I'm sure you're all wondering who got that A." Half the class guesses one of the government majors. The other half guesses the guy who got the only A on the last test we had.

"Nope. The A goes to the only person who followed the question all the way through: Miss hopefulnebula." And BOOM. Every bit of pent-up "ohshit" goes flying from me like a politician from accountability and I start laughing. (Not the funny kind of laughter, but the "tension release" kind of laughter.)

AP English saves my ass again. Your cogent, complete, well-written essay in forty minutes or less, or my bad grade is free. (OK, so it took longer this time. AP prompts weren't thirty percent of my grade.)

The prof did say that the points he did take off were because I didn't give the details he'd outlined in the "what I'd do if I had to answer this question," but I think he was glad that somebody in the class knew how to answer the question given as opposed to taking buzzwords.


Also, it's supposed to snow on Wednesday. I hate the cold. Very glad I brought my warm fuzzysocks that I got for Christmas 05 here.

...crap, is it really only 40 minutes to midnight? Eeesh. I have classes tomorrow.

(P.S. "No Heroes spoilers" still applies. Rumor has it something big is going down tonight and I don't want to find out before I can see it.)

Comments

[zogblog.livejournal.com]

Good job, Lizzy!!!!!!!

[lacey]

Wow. Congrats!