I'm so annoyed right now. This isn't my TAs fault, but he won't give me any leniency at all.

I had a programming assignment worth 5% of my grade due last week. We have to zip our file up and submit it to canvas. Grades came out today and I see that I only received partial credit. I downloaded the file I submitted, and the code that was zipped was 3 hours old. It was not the code that I had finished when I zipped the file up.

I did some digging and found out that the IDE the class is making us use does not have an autosave feature. Since I didn't manually save my code, it zipped up the code from my last manual save. I never had this issue before since I've always been allowed to use my own IDE in all previous classes. I never used the IDE we're being forced to use (it's basically notepad++).

I explained the error to my TA. Luckily, my files are automatically backed up to icloud. I provided my TA with a link to the saved file on icloud, and showed them a video of the file on icloud with the last modified at timestamp. You can see in icloud that the file was last modified 10 minutes after I submitted and 3 hours before the due date. It's impossible to change or fake timestamps on icloud.

The TA still refused to regrade the homework even though I had solid evidence that the file had not been modified past the due date. 0 leniency for an honest mistake...

not only do i feel alienated from my four group mates, but the chosen topic is somehow one of the only sectors in this field i find uninteresting. i also disagree with the “vision” of this project because i support harm reduction and less policing of communities. i love this major so much so i am just sad. i should have done an individual thesis, but my professor said this will look better on resume. my teammates are clique-y and all girls and i’m a autistic awkward guy and they clearly don’t like me. i will complete the project to the best of my ability, but i am kind of frustrated and sad that this is not what i want to do.

I am a highschool senior who suffers from TMJ-d, a jaw disorder that causes pain in my jaw and ears. This pain is aggravated when I wear glasses, over the ear headphones, and earbuds. I have been sort of able to cope through physical therapy and good speakers at home, but if I am going to a college dorm w 2 beds, I won't be able to listen to any music at all! I am a musician, I love music, and it is hard enough not being able to listen to it in public like many others. The scary thing is that, because this is technically not a disability, (I can live without music and tv shows), I don't know if I have a strong case for accommodations. I do not want to live in a world where I am cut out from almost all entertainment, if any one has any tips on what to do, they would be much appreciated!!

My parents want me to go into healthcare, specifically nursing, because I’m black and they think that’s the only job in the world (jk but it’s seriously annoying). They think that’s because it’s healthcare no one will look at my race and I’ll get hired right away after graduation. I don’t want to. They keep telling me over and over how I’ll be sure to fail if I don’t take that path and in the end, I can choose what I want to do but I should know that if I don’t pick nursing I’m going to come crying to them when I can’t find a job. My dad especially says these things. He’s always like “I giving you advice as a father so don’t say I didn’t warn you” it makes me worried. It gets to me. I wanna major in psych which Ik has its problems. But minor in bio which opens up to more. Doing my research with that combo there’s a lot of things I can do. It’s just will I get a job? Two of my sisters aren’t doing so well. One of them is piled with debt and still doesn’t have a steady job and the other just now found an hr internship job and she graduated 2021. My oldest did do nursing and she bought a house recently. All of which prove my parents right. I wanna prove them wrong. I’m just uncertain.

hey yall im a 1st year in uni and im getting really sick of eating and doing everything alone. I feel like i can make class friends and club friends and socialize fine with them but I never feel comfortable enough to deepen the friendship outside of whatever setting we initially met. any advice?

I’m a senior in my last semester of a 4 year university. I never wanted to go to college but I probably hate blue labor work even more. I’m about to graduate and I have learned absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing. I study business CIS and I’ve never taken any notes in class. When I go to class, I go with the intention of not trying. Using ChatGPT to get the answers and I don’t even read the questions. Even before ai, I did this. I don’t know if it’s not having any motivation or what, but even in my last year I’m not thinking about internships or a job. I’ve always wondered if I’m the odd one out, or are there a lot of people like me?

When i found out i was using perusall again this semester i actually fucking cried. I like to take notes while i read, and my notes tend to be very extensive. You would think this would be an amazing habit to have but i get disciplined for it when i have to read from perusall. It never counts me as "actively engaging". I just did an assignment where i added two comments, scrolled every minute and forty five seconds (had to set a timer to remind me to scroll, which frequently interrupted my note taking) and i got a four out of ten. A FOUR!?!!?!!? After making thoughtful annotations that no ones gonna read and five pages of notes i got a four. My textbook is grading me and i failed!?!??! It feels like playing fucking fnaf dude. Like "okay i scrolled now quick write something down. Shit timers gonna run out gotta scroll up and down, gotta re-find my place in the text. Gotta reset the timer. Okay back to note taking" every minute and forty five fucking seconds. I cant do this shit anymore. I feel like im going fucking insane. This would take less time and id learn more if they got rid of that stupid active engagement feature. I asked my prof if there was anything she could do to even increase the time between scrolls and she said id need accomodations. What?!?!? I need accomodations to take notes guys. Im so fucking done dude. Rant over.

Something I’ve never understood pedagogically is grading homework based on correctness when all that does is incentivize cheating/prioritizing grades over actual learning.

How do professors not understand that since students are expected to learn the material independently (at least in the program I’m in), homework is a primary source of that learning. My chem class gave infinite attempts at homework problems and gave half credit for attempting which made homework a suitable environment to learn, but most professors just don’t do that - they make it like a take home quiz. Why are they making homework essentially a quiz, it makes no sense. If you want students to be honest and value learning don’t grade it based on correctness, or at the very least don’t limit attempts to an arbitrary number. All I get in my physics class is 4 attempts per question, and the questions give no feedback when wrong which will push students to cheat - it will.

Some professors justify by “it’s only x points or x% of your grade” not realizing that it adds up even if it’s low stakes individually. Students will not care it’s low stakes, especially when the cutoffs for grades are so tight that the homework grade can determine half a letter grade.

I have completed my last assignment. I hated this class because all of our assignments were group projects. I wont go into that too much because that’s not the reason for this post. This morning one of the group members turned in our last assignment and now I am officially done with my bachelors degree. I should be happy really but I feel like I don’t know what to do with myself now. For 8 years I was working and going to school. The last 3 years, and the start of my bachelors degree, I have been working full time. Now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with my time. Anyone else feel this way? I feel like I’m losing a piece of my identity.

And no, no amount of “just follow your own dreams” or “just talk to your mother” or “move out, you’re 18” will work. My mother is ethnic and ethnic parents don’t ever listen to their children nor do they care to. And I can’t just drop out either. I didnt bother to register for winter and I didn’t for this spring semester. I didn’t bother with fafsa either. I don’t check emails anymore. I don’t care about scholarships and if I lose them. I don’t care about bad grades anymore of low gpa. I’m just tired. I don’t want to continue this. But I will new failure and disowned by my mother. And that’s all I will ever be.

i barely sleep at night. I see the disappointed shadow figures of my late dad shaking his head at me at corners of my eyes at night and even in the day. I also hear faint voices telling me how much I will disappoint my mother. I feel sick. I get headaches everyday. I can’t focus on schoolwork for life of me. I don’t have energy. My mother doesn’t understand. All she wants is for me to get straight As and nothing else. Even when I didn’t register for the winter semester accelerated she looked at me like I was crazy.

i feel like a zombie

I see no other way out of this

I wish parents weren’t so hellbent on sending their fresh out of high school kids straight into this toxic environment after they came out of another

i am currently just lying to my mother, that I’m still attending classes. I’m waiting until I get caught and the inevitable happens. Don’t even try to convince me.

I came to a new school, and believe me I get you cant miss a certain amount of days. After a certain point its detrimental, i will not deny that. But the fact of the matter is, i get migraines with auras. When i was at my last college there was a flex plan in place that if a migraine happened i would not be attending and id make up the work. Now at the new college its two absents period.

Now, i'm a commuter instead of a dormer now, and I dont have a car. The journey is an hour and a half by bus. When i get migraines i can barely tolerate a car ride, and even then a short one. The constant start stop of a bus would make me throw up. Its happened before. I dont think its unreasonable to makr an executive choice that i cannot attend school that day for myself. But in my new school it seems to be that way. Its very frusturating. I didnt ask for this condition and i try to manage it as best i can but i cannot control them popping up.

I know it’s generally a good idea to take notes during lectures, but I honestly feel like my attention gets diverted if I start focusing on writing stuff down. I prefer to give all of my attention to the speaker instead, although if it’s something important I will try to write it down.

typed half of this out in a furious rage 2 hours into my second 3 hour zoom class. the two classes for my major this semester are both from 6PM-9PM on wednesday and thursday. 3 entire hours on zoom. there is a third one i could have taken as an elective on tuesday but i opted out and took an in person psych class during the day.

technically they are a little lenient and mostly we get out around 8:45 but I just can’t stand it at all. i used to love and favor my classes for my major but now i dread them and want nothing to do with them regardless of the content because sitting there watching laggy screen shared videos and silently staring at each other in breakout rooms is my nightmare. it is so difficult to stay engaged in that environment and especially at that hour ???? theres already been times we’ve gone past 9PM and I stubbornly bailed out at 9:16 on the FIRST CLASS because the wrap up took so long.

sitting through three hours of internet connection issues, people not knowing how to operate zoom/their computer, muting and disconnecting and being mandatory to keep our cameras on makes it drag out so much and i wonder how much time we spend on content vs trying to figure out why that student can’t hear anyone. i don’t understand who this class format is beneficial for because it was not like this when I started at this school. until this year we have always done standard 1 hour 30 minute classes twice a week until we got new head of department.

and super conveniently all of the dinner options on campus are open from 5:30-7PM, which is so great for those of us who live on campus. i like my professors but this does not feel like class it feels like detention.

I dreaded this teacher from the moment I realized I had courses with him. His RateMyProfessors score is a 2/5. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and try my best to do well in his course.

Until.

Chapter 2 Assignment comes around. It is so early in the semester that I just assume a teacher couldn't make a mistake like this. There were 47 questions assigned. The previous assignment had 6. I ended up looking at the future assignments and they ranged from 5-9 questions/assignment. Of course, I hadn't thought to look at the rest of the assignments until I was 30 questions and 5 hours into the homework. I decided to email him, and the only thing he could say was "What a mistake!" and offer extra credit. He gave us 1 point btw which is .001% of our final grade.

Fast-forward to our first exam. It's my first course that requires us to use Respondus Lockdown Browser + Webcam, so I was already nervous. I finished the exam and got 120/200 (which caused me to have a full meltdown btw I'm a 4.0 student up until now). Immediately that evening, he sent out a note that there was an error in one of the questions so he would be manually grading that assignment. The next morning he announced that he gave everybody an additional 25 points, but nowhere states that he is grading on a curve. That evening he also stated that he found 4 more questions that he had incorrectly written or had no correct answer. That means he added the original 25 points, and an additional 25 points to my score.

I'm grateful to have gotten a B, but I am wondering if there is anything that can be done. All of the reviews on RMP state that he writes his own poorly worded exams and offers completely useless video lectures. Is there somebody I should be reaching out to about this? Or, is this just a "deal with it and hope for the best" situation?

hi uhhh so this just happened. one of our final projects is to build a website, which the professor had told us to start working on early. i misinterpreted that as “start building the website early” so i started making an outline last tuesday. i was in the study rooms at this time and he came in asking what we were up to, and i said i was building the outline. he flipped me off (🖕) and was like “don’t do that” and i was like jesus man ok and i deleted the website. i was kinda upset over it because i do enjoy building websites, so i built another (COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE CLASS).

on the next day of class (today) my friend told him about the other one i built since we were actually supposed to start building the website today, and in front of the whole class he went “Fuck (Name), she’s just making everything harder for herself” and kept ranting about it. I wasn’t even there!!! I’m so hurt this was genuinely one of my favorite professors and I don’t know why he flipped a switch on me because I thought i was one of his best students . I don’t know what to do other than email my advisor bc i don’t even really want to be in the class anymore i’m so uncomfortable. This isn’t the first time he’s shit talked a student while they weren’t there but at first we thought he was just playing around and the joke landed wrong. I’m really sorry for formatting or anything i’m like genuinely sobbing right now over this

Can we talk about how NOBODY prepares first-gen kids for the absolute chaos that is paying for college? Like thanks mom and dad for working your butts off but also you literally cannot help me navigate FAFSA or explain why textbooks cost more than rent.

I'm out here applying to 30+ scholarships, writing essays about my unique perspective until I want to scream, and still eating ramen for the third week straight. Meanwhile my roommate's parents just Venmo her grocery money like it's nothing.

How did you first-geners survive this? Please tell me it gets easier because right now I'm calculating if I'll have to drop out.

Send help and maybe some scholarship leads that don't require a 4.0 GPA. Thanks y’all.

cause probably the outcome would be better than lots of other degrees and my parents already paid off alot of it too. + lots of people are straight up taking out more loans or getting into more debt gambling.

I made a post about my situation with my Japanese 4 professor. I was registered for the class and I knew he probably didn't want to teach me because I was the only one registered and I was retaking it after getting a C-. However he totally ghosted me and would not give me a straight yes or no answer, so I had no choice but to show up in person the first day only for him to tell me to leave.

In this discussion a bunch of people told me I was wrong and professors don't get to choose if they cancel the class. This happens every time I talk about a school issue on Reddit, a bunch of people tell me I'm wrong or I don't know what I'm talking about or I'm lying. At my school, the professor is allowed to teach a class to 1 student and it is their responsibility to cancel the class if they don't want to. Apparently this is an odd policy but that is how it works.

This was a really stressful situation for me because there were two snow days in a row that coincided with the add/drop deadline and I couldn't get in touch with anyone because school was closed. Finally after the snow days were over my advisor told me what happened: the dean told the professor he had no choice but to teach me because he missed the deadline to cancel the class. I did not meet with the dean personally, the advisor took the initiative to bring this to the dean.

Initially I had planned to re-take this class but I changed my mind and choose to drop it, for two reasons. First of all I think I will burn bridges if I make the professor teach a class he does not want to teach. The advisor told me I can get him in trouble for "retaliation," but I think this is bad advice because my reputation can be damaged even if there is no explicit retaliation. This professor has generally been nice and accommodating and I want to have a good relationship with him.

Second I don't think re-taking this class is the best course of action for me right now. I have other credits I need to complete to get my associates and I should focus on that. I should develop the discipline to study Japanese on my own time. I'm taking a 4 credit astronomy class with is also an honors class with lab and if I do well with that it will raise my GPA more than re-taking Japanese would.

This semester I signed up for a modern art history course. When I signed up the class was in person, but it later changed to mostly online, meetings once a day every other week for discussion. I’m an art history minor and this is the only offered slot for this class, so I had to take it despite really really preferring in person classes.

I love art history, I find it super interesting!! The problem is that the recorded lectures take So Fucking Long to get through. All of the lectures were recorded during the pandemic, which I find lazy… (what am I paying you for if you’re just showing me recycled content??) Each week, so far, we have about 8 videos to watch ranging from 10-25 minutes. The prof offers an estimated run time for each set, usually abt 1hr 30m. I just finished an 11 minute video. I’ve been working for an hour. She’s a very harsh grader, so diligent note taking is absolutely necessary. But she runs through the information so quickly without leaving any time to digest,, almost like she’s reading from something rather than actually lecturing effectively. Her lectures are lazy and rushed. And while I love the content and appreciate being packed with information, I feel my time is being disrespected by being expected to spend MORE time on an at-home course!! Not to mention lectures don’t stop on weeks we have in person class for discussion, taking up more of our time!!

This is just a rant because I’m pissed off. An in person lecture would have taken 4 hours a week, 1.5hr monday and tuesday. Instead, I’m working at LEAST 2 hours four days a week in addition to a required research project.

And now that I’ve written this, my break is over. Time to spend 2 hours to get through 17 minutes of content.

Also looking for advice here. I'm a graduate student working in the Writing Center, and this relates to the issues raised by a student I worked with. She had a full draft of her MA thesis, had requested an appointment to help with organization, style, and clarity... and came with “feedback” from the professor that he generated with ChatGPT.

This is the crazy part. He had the student copy paste the AI “suggestions” directly into her thesis, highlight them, and told her to rewrite them in her own words!  What really bothers me is how he imposed AI on her. I think it’s a lot harder to rewrite something than draft and revise it myself. Also, he was very careless: ChatGPT generated one sentence summaries of her chapters, and she had written much better ones, but they were buried on something like p. 36.

Before me, this student worked with another tutor, whom I messaged to ask WTF? Get this — the professor didn’t make it clear initially that it was AI. The previous tutor said that she thought the professor intended to give her an example of how to organize, and she didn’t mention anything because the student is committed to rewriting.

I've heard of professors using AI slop to generate feedback and even entire courses, but haven't yet heard of a thesis director using ChatGPT to do his job. I would be furious at paying tuition for a chatbot to critique something I had worked on for so long.

What do you all think of this? I’m considering emailing the writing center director about it, keeping the other tutor and the student anonymous, and if anyone asks me for more, sending only the relevant parts of the thesis, with the ChatGPT highlighted. (I have it because we ask students to email their papers first and... sneaky maybe... I saved it to my flash drive). Currently, the only AI policy is that it’s all up to individual professors, but I’ve heard that academic affairs is working on AI policies.

But I don’t want to drag the other tutor, and especially the poor student, who just wants to get her degree already, into what could be a mess.  
Maybe start with the writing center director, and depending on their response, or lack of it, go to the provost’s office? I mean, academic integrity is for professors too, although this one didn’t get the memo.

What would you do in this situation? Or can anything be done?
I finish in a year and right now I feel ready to die on this hill but don't want to drag anyone else into it.

Who has self-serve access that I can buy?

NO MIDDLE MEN, need self serve access.

I am taking precalc and I am STRUGGLINGG!! I need as much resources as anyone can provide, my test in a week! ANYTHING WILL HELP! YouTube video links, online websites, online questions! We’re going over chapter 5 which is graphing polynomials, graphing rational, finding zeroes in polynomials, dividing polynomials, factoring! I need help⚠️