I finally received my grade on my final report for Managerial Finance.  I made an 86% on it.  You wouldn’t believe what I got “gigged” on.  I used conversational English as I frequently do, even here I suppose and I kept using the phrase “Let’s take the example of…” or some such.  Well for every time I said “Let’s” I had points deducted.  Did I miss the concepts of the course?  No.  Did I screw up the numbers?  Nope.  Did I misapply the philosophies or learning objectives in Managerial Finance?  No.  Instead I apparently made the 7^th grade mistake of writing in a conversational tone instead of in a strictly dry academic tone.  Oddly enough I have received high marks in the past specifically because my papers were “engaging” or an “easy read” or even “flowing”.  But this time?  Oh no.  Apparently unless you could blow dust off the pages because it was so dry, you get gigged.

Okay I’m not complaining here, but the instructor also seemed at times to be a little reluctant on the feedback.  However after pretty much insisting on it after failing in my discussion posts one week I would routinely get feedback.  Also instead of the usual “welcome to my class, I hope you enjoy it” type of thing at the beginning we received a list more to the tone of “you will be deducted 10 points for every day late” or “you will be expected to…” type of thing.  Yeah, yeah I know.  Big cry baby whining about the mean teacher in grad school because he didn’t ask me how my day was or whatever.  Still, a good class with highly relevant material.  This professor was just certainly a lot less personable than I have previously experienced to date.  Maybe less enthusiastic would be a better way of putting it.  Lastly this dude graded papers tough.  Perhaps it was because he had exacting standards, maybe he didn’t like the cut of my jib (whatever a “jib” is) I don’t know.  I do know that I scored higher on the final than the class average which tells me that this guy was just a tough nut all around.

I’m glad for the experience, I’m even more glad it’s over.  People I’m here to tell you that the last 24 weeks have been BRUTAL with the bulk of the brutality in these last 6 weeks.

That being said my GPA is still intact as I made a 91% for the course.  I’m still sailing at a 4.0 GPA, which is great news however I’m so exhausted that I really struggled my first week in Operations Management.  However everything else should be down hill and I’m hoping to pick up momentum. 

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