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Originally Posted by Argonautomobile
This may not be what you want to hear and maybe it isn't my place to say it, but I think you may have become so fixated on a tiny imperfection that you've lost objectivity here. Your professor said a lot of really positive things here--you did well in the course. An A- is a good grade. Heck, as long as you passed GPAs start not mattering the further in your career you get. It was only when you pushed and pushed that the conversation started getting unproductive.
You can be a therapist. You are meant to be in graduate school. You are doing well. I think being sent to the disciplinary board is a little absurd, but don't freak out about it yet. It's a place to calmly state your grievances and settle the issue as to whether a doc's note excuses the late grade. Worse case scenario, they tell you you were rude, you apologize and move on with life. Good luck.
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No, I decided not to make a big deal about the 1 point/A-grade. Yes it was due to psych meds side effects that I didn't anticipate, but at the end of the day I enrolled myself in the DBT program while I was in school and I made the choice to be med compliant, so any side effect from that choice is my responsibility so the consequences are my own.
Lesson learned: Don't take multiple new psych meds with unknown side effects when you are in graduate school and have **** to do.
And yes, I did get fixated on the grade initially bc I have a problem with equating self worth with my school performance. I have a lot in my life that is uncontrollable, but I am still an excellent student- that is under my control. When my performance was affected by something out of my control-unanticipated side effects- it made me feel more out of control and FRUSTRATED bc how can I fight that? How can I do my best academically if "getting better" mentally means dulling my brain and thought processes?