I guess what I look at is that I consistently get the highest grades in the class. I got the highest grade on 2/3 lecture exams, a lab practical and the final lab practical. Plus I had the best collection in the class. I kind of feel like....if your best student has an 84%...maybe that means you're asking too much.

Not to mention this is ZOOL 471. Half of the students are masters/phd students and the other half are seniors. He treats it like that should be our only class. When we're all taking other 300-400 level classes. It just doesn't seem right to expect THAT much out of people who are already pressured and stacked to their fullest.

I just get upset when I don't think the grade I get is equivalent to how hard I worked. I feel that, when I put in the work I can get an A in anything. (that's proven by me passing Calculus haha). So when I study for 8 hours and get an A on a chemistry test....that's what I expect.

But when I study for WEEKS and get a C....that just doesn't sit well with me. It just seems to me like he is forgetting how it was to be in this position. He is 68...been here over 40 years and teaches a single class every semester. So it seems like he feels that because he has enough time to sit around and look over all this stuff and he thinks it's easy that we should too.

I talked to him today about it - he came into my lab. I said "you gave us those pages telling us they were for us and to help us key out insects. We never went over it in the lab" and he said "well I still gave it to you". So apparently it doesn't matter to him that he told us it was for our "own personal benefit". He pretty much said tough noogies. So we'll see. I don't think he will turn in grades with the highest one being a B so maybe he'll curve it but I doubt it.

And sorry, Gray. I was so livid when I was posting all that stuff. I shouldn't have been so harsh. I can see where you are coming from, I guess it's just different when you're the one taking it and when you're the one giving it. I just hope I never become the kind of professor that intentionally tries to trip people up on exams.