Well, Pooey.

I am an ACE at mastering how to write papers for Australian professors rather than American professors in a manner of a couple weeks and asking no one for help! Ha Ha!


...Not.

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SO I got a paper back today, my first one ever!! Whoooo! So I ran to my professor ready to pick a new A or B level paper, within my usual grade range, of course, I wouldn't want to stain my almost (totally not) perfect, but generally pretty good record and I flipped to the back sheet where she left comments.

At the bottom it said "H2B". Uhhhh whatever that means. Let's go to comments to see what she said!

Well, there is a chart thingy for grading at the top. Most of my check marks were in the "good" range. Which is the middle column! The column right after "Bare Pass". I was just above a bare pass!! Aggghhhhhhekpskfkgpkefjo!!! She even put one check mark one the line that seperates "bare Pass" from "Good". WHAT?!?! huff puff huff puff.
It's alright, I thought. I have two check marks in " Excellent"! Yay! Let's see what they are for.

...Oh. They are only for "appropriate word length" and "image list". ... :/ Well, at least I know I am excellent at counting words and naming pictures.
I did also get two "Very good"s, one on my visual material used and the other on my well-organized, well-prepared presentation.

Uhhhmmm. Time to look up what "H2B" means! To Wikipedia!!!!

Ohhheeerrrmmuhhhh. ... Wikipedia has this handy chart that shows a "H2B" given at the University of Melbourne means a ... low B. In the number ranges of 70 - 74. (Seems like they grade out of 100, but it's not ten per letter grade, it's something weird. 70 - 79 is B range.)

Well, that's not so bad. It's my first paper here, I've never written for an Australian audience, and it's not even that far from my what I'd usually get. I should look at the comments.

UUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHH. :(

No one told me Australian professors were so MEAN. *__*

I thought this lady was nice!! She says a lot of things like "over-reliance on non-scholarly and non-referenced government website" and "more specificity and focus" and "more scholarly focus required". Mraaaaaggghhhhhrrrrr!!!! D:

Oh, and at the very bottom, where it looks like she actually ran out of room but really wanted to write this in, she wrote "Please seek assistance in improving your academic skills." Really, professor? Did you really need to cramp up your handwriting just so you could fit in that little nugget of wisdom? I don't think you did, I think you are just a meanie. I'm gonna go pick up a bucket of ice cream and watch Lion King in bed and BAWL MY EYES OUT AT THE PART WHERE MUFASA DIES AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT.

Not really, don't worry.

I don't really care that this lady seems to hate my paper and I got the equivalent of a B- on it. Australian grades transfer very well into American grades. It's just... really, lady, I don't like you any more. You seem to make me want to never study in Australia ever again because professors are so mean and now I am afraid of how I will do on my other papers. Uggghhhh.

I thought I was using good sources! I used all government and education websites, no .coms. Just one .org! Pschh. Those are good websites. What would rather me use, wikipedia? And think she got all snooty and specific about my formatting, like citing within the paper. All her comments are like "reference" and "page number" and I was like THIS IS HOW WE DO IT IN THE STATES GIVE ME A BREAK TRUNCHBULL.

OH YEAH and she commented that I needed to put a "u" in "color". I was like, ARE YOU FOR REAL. I AM AMERICAN. MY COMPUTER AUTOMATICALLY DOES THIS CRAP BECAUSE IT IS AMERICAN. You British-English spelling Nazi. Sheesh.


Alright, I'm done ranting. I'm actually not that mad, I'm just offended that she graded me down for crap like that. Crazy lady. If I were a teacher, I would grade on content and effort. Oh course, if I were a teacher, I would probably teach 3rd grade art class. ...

On a much better note, MY MOM COMES TOMORROWWWWWW!!!!!!! Less than a day! She comes tomorrow morning at about 10, and it 's 3 pm here, so .... 19ish hours!!!!! WHOOOOOOOO!!!!! I won't get to see her til later in the day because I have dump stupid tutorials on Thursday. :( But still. I am so excited. I can't stop smiling! I thinking someone is going to ask me why I'm smiling so much, and I will shout to the mountaintops "MY MOTHER IS COMING TOMORROW AND I AM SOOOOO HAPPYYYYYY!" Sigghhhh. Can't wait. Ok, I have to go to another class! Ciao for now! I love and miss everyone! Xoxoxoxoxo!