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today I wanna talk about being sick....
I don't normally get sick...and I've got a pretty strong ability to work when I'm sick anyway, but yesterday I just went to bed instead of prepping to lead a discussion worth 25% of my course mark...that's extreme...I got up at 6:30 and was just barely ready....but it just wasn't my usual polish...and the other members of my class marked me down because of it.
Oh sure, part of it was me being sick, but I can hardly blame them for being annoyed that I mixed up names a bit when associated people with questions....I'd be annoyed too. Happily our instructor didn't have an issue with it and said she was "very pleased" with how the discussion went. This really made my day. This instructor, call her FashionableLady, has a rep for being sorta stiff but I'm consistently pleased with her organization, forthrightness, and appropriatenss of evaluation. I really like her...anyway, the thing I was most concerned about was that she think I did a bad job...but she didn't...phew! It kinda sucks that my grade won't be as high as it would have been if I had spent maybe another hour on the prep....but hey...I AM sick....FashionableLady ended her email to me (giving me feedback) by saying that she really didn't have anything to tell me about how to improve next time which was super nice to hear.
I guess this bad performance is an issue for another reason too...I always seem to burn out at the wrong times...like I work my tail off almost all the time but when it REALLY matters that's when I somehow have a bad day...or just can't get up early or something...I've always felt like I just COULDN'T get down to work..I hate that.
I don't normally get sick...and I've got a pretty strong ability to work when I'm sick anyway, but yesterday I just went to bed instead of prepping to lead a discussion worth 25% of my course mark...that's extreme...I got up at 6:30 and was just barely ready....but it just wasn't my usual polish...and the other members of my class marked me down because of it.
Oh sure, part of it was me being sick, but I can hardly blame them for being annoyed that I mixed up names a bit when associated people with questions....I'd be annoyed too. Happily our instructor didn't have an issue with it and said she was "very pleased" with how the discussion went. This really made my day. This instructor, call her FashionableLady, has a rep for being sorta stiff but I'm consistently pleased with her organization, forthrightness, and appropriatenss of evaluation. I really like her...anyway, the thing I was most concerned about was that she think I did a bad job...but she didn't...phew! It kinda sucks that my grade won't be as high as it would have been if I had spent maybe another hour on the prep....but hey...I AM sick....FashionableLady ended her email to me (giving me feedback) by saying that she really didn't have anything to tell me about how to improve next time which was super nice to hear.
I guess this bad performance is an issue for another reason too...I always seem to burn out at the wrong times...like I work my tail off almost all the time but when it REALLY matters that's when I somehow have a bad day...or just can't get up early or something...I've always felt like I just COULDN'T get down to work..I hate that.
posted by Camel at 7:23 p.m.
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