I'm an overachiever...

Hello, my name is Bethany. *crowd says "Hi Bethany"* I admit I am an overachiever.

So I admit it. I am an overachiever. I got an 8/10 on my Thought Piece
for 212 (first assignment) and a 8/10 on my article review for marine bio (first assignment) and I
looked at both scores and thought "That's a B! I want an A. Why did I get a B? I want an A." To top it
off, a guy next to me in 212 said he just wants to pass the class and
the 8/10 was good for him and I ALMOST said, "I just want to pass the
class with an A. If I get a B, it'll throw my GPA off" and thought that
was a bit, well, over the top and didn't say it. LoL

My marine bio assignment he critiqued my writing, which is fine. Part of the assignment is based on your writing. It's a critique of an article and the way I wrote it didn't necessarily achieve the goal. My 212 class is an ETHICS class. Sure, writing is important, but should a professor spend MOST of his time critiquing our writing and not our thoughts? I just feel like he's emphasizing our writing more than he is our thought process and ethics is supposed to make you think. It's not a writing class. As long as I'm writing in a way that my thought process is being conveyed on INFORMAL pieces, who cares if my sentence could be more concise? According to the syllabus (which isn't his, but he's trying to make his and not following) the thought pieces are supposed to get us thinking and we shouldn't be as worried about our grammatical writing. Obviously we need to write to a standard, but he's grading on a much higher standard than the syllabus conveyed.

Lesson to self: Write in short, concise sentences. Each sentence MUST have a point to it. If my thought process is faulty, who cares? I have written in a short, concise manner!

I miss 384s with Dan. Dan was great. He structured the class almost the same way 212 is supposed to be structured, yet he actually critiqued your thought process. He'd write all over your paper to give you things to think about what you said. He didn't go through and correct my grammar and write one vague comment saying "your paper shows considerable thought and weight" and then go on to give me pointless information on how I can clarify by rereading my paper to give more clarity (that made no sense to me).

Anyway, I'm TRYING to not have a bad attitude about the class because it'll affect my work and the guy isn't bad. He was thrown into the class and is trying his best, but he's not handling it well at all. I'm hoping it'll get better, but I kind of doubt it.

With that, I must be off. I should work on some homework, go to bed early tonight, and I need to do this capstone assignment now before I forget.

Oh, did I mention someone from MBARI e-mailed me and asked me what I wanted my e-mail address at MBARI to be? I can have my first name only or first name initial and last name. Now which one do I want...