OMG Professor Screwed Me||||Update: Resolved

[Hacp]

I got a (Never Went) which means I never attended which is an F in my thermo class. I attended all his classes and took all his tests including the final. Apparently, he gave me that grade in the 4th week of classes. Hopefully this will be rectified.

/rant

Update 2: So I managed to get a grade for the course and sign up for next semester's course. Final grade was a B, I did better in the final than I expected.

Update:
Ok I got a response from the professor. It was in fact not his fault but mine. Apparently, I didn't sign an attendance sheet the first 2 weeks so he marked me as never attended. He will not give me credit for the course, but he has the power to change the Not Attended to Withdrawn which is not an F. I will need to take the same class again and it is not offered in the spring. FML! UGH.

Hey, on the bright side, I might get a better grade. I was almost certainly going to get a B- in that class. I might be able to boost it up to a B.

 

[darkxshade]

If your professor screwed you, I figure you've already been rectified.

 

[shortylickens]

So, by your own admission he didnt screw you, he simply made a mistake.

We really got correct the youth of today into thinking that not everything is perfect or should be perfect. Also, not everything is an emergency when your life isnt going like you want.

/old man rant

 

[theflyingpig]

Perhaps you were such an unremarkable student that your professor forgot you even existed. Would that hurt your feelings, Hacp? Would it hurt to know that your effort was so substandard that the person being paid to teach you forgot about you?

 

[Crono]

Take it to the head of department/dean if it isn't rectified soon.

 

[polarmystery]

So, by your own admission he didnt screw you, he simply made a mistake.

We really got correct the youth of today into thinking that not everything is perfect or should be perfect. Also, not everything is an emergency when your life isnt going like you want.

/old man rant

Speak English old man!

 

[TruePaige]

Wow, you didn't make enough of a mark for him to know you attended at all? 0.o

 

[Kalmah]

Don't you love it when crap like this happens.

I had a test once that I was suppose to take online. When I clicked it it said 'currently unavailable'. I was excused for it.. Then it happened again on the next test. She kept saying that she was going to fix it for me. I went through the entire class without taking a single test. Then a week before finals, she gets it fixed and I have 20 tests to take in 5 days. It was math too. Man was I pissed. I spent the next 70 hours straight with a calculator, a notebook, and a VERY BAD ATTITUDE trying to finish the tests.

I wanted to choke a bitch.

 

[Crono]

Wow, you didn't make enough of a mark for him to know you attended at all? 0.o

Maybe he's a graduate of the prestigious Milford Academy.

 

[destrekor]

This is why it never hurts to actually just talk to a professor, even if just once, before or after class. And I mean it, just once or a on a couple occasions, can really help in the long run.
It also helps that almost every time I've been in a large lecture class, I'd still likely have it happen if not once, a couple times, where I, gasp, had a question.
I'm hardly an A student, not even a solid B student. Looking back, I can admit I just don't try. So it's not a situation of "always talking to the professor", I just cannot think of a time where I NEVER talked to the professor. A question about lecture, the reading material, a due date, picking up a test (typically a situation where I walk in late and miss them being handed out, seems to be frequent that when I'm late is the day they do that).

 

[destrekor]

Don't you love it when crap like this happens.

I had a test once that I was suppose to take online. When I clicked it it said 'currently unavailable'. I was excused for it.. Then it happened again on the next test. She kept saying that she was going to fix it for me. I went through the entire class without taking a single test. Then a week before finals, she gets it fixed and I have 20 tests to take in 5 days. It was math too. Man was I pissed. I spent the next 70 hours straight with a calculator, a notebook, and a VERY BAD ATTITUDE trying to finish the tests.

I wanted to choke a bitch.

I would have NEVER let it go that long. Not taking tests is nice, but you know it's guaranteed you'd have to take them eventually.

If I missed 2 tests, quizzes, or any assignments, due to an error somewhere, I would have been raising hell to get the error corrected. Just makes it worse the longer the problem last.

 

[Kalmah]

I would have NEVER let it go that long. Not taking tests is nice, but you know it's guaranteed you'd have to take them eventually.

If I missed 2 tests, quizzes, or any assignments, due to an error somewhere, I would have been raising hell to get the error corrected. Just makes it worse the longer the problem last.

It got to the point where I was going to tell her to piss off if she was going to make me take them.. It didn't turn out as planned...

 

[shortylickens]

I would have NEVER let it go that long. Not taking tests is nice, but you know it's guaranteed you'd have to take them eventually.

If I missed 2 tests, quizzes, or any assignments, due to an error somewhere, I would have been raising hell to get the error corrected. Just makes it worse the longer the problem last.

This is a problem I've been having with lazy, dumb, spoiled teeny boppers in my math class. They waited until the last week of the semester to tell the instructor about the problems they were having with getting tests completed and having them marked, then yelled at her for not being able to correct the problem immediately. (In math, we take our tests outside of class in the math lab. You have to decide when the best time is for you.)
One of the fucks who goofed off the whole time stopped me in the hallway and said "You NEED to help me, bro!"
I almost slapped the bastard. Then I realized at age 18 it wouldnt do any good.
He failed the class.
Fuck him.

 

[Whisper]

This is a problem I've been having with lazy, dumb, spoiled teeny boppers in my math class. They waited until the last week of the semester to tell the instructor about the problems they were having with getting tests completed and having them marked, then yelled at her for not being able to correct the problem immediately. (In math, we take our tests outside of class in the math lab. You have to decide when the best time is for you.)
One of the fucks who goofed off the whole time stopped me in the hallway and said "You NEED to help me, bro!"
I almost slapped the bastard. Then I realized at age 18 it wouldnt do any good.
He failed the class.
Fuck him.

I've run into a similar situation in one of the classes I taught, although I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that my particular set of students was lazy/dumb/spoiled; perhaps just opportunistic.

Anyway, the issue I experienced was that approximately half the class failed to mention to me that the textbook for the course was out of stock in the campus bookstore. Not a huge problem, and it was taken care of within a week, but they chose to wait until the day before the first test to inform me.

 

[Whisper]

This is a problem I've been having with lazy, dumb, spoiled teeny boppers in my math class. They waited until the last week of the semester to tell the instructor about the problems they were having with getting tests completed and having them marked, then yelled at her for not being able to correct the problem immediately. (In math, we take our tests outside of class in the math lab. You have to decide when the best time is for you.)
One of the fucks who goofed off the whole time stopped me in the hallway and said "You NEED to help me, bro!"
I almost slapped the bastard. Then I realized at age 18 it wouldnt do any good.
He failed the class.
Fuck him.

I've run into a similar situation in one of the classes I taught, although I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that my particular set of students was lazy/dumb/spoiled; perhaps just opportunistic.

Anyway, the issue I experienced was that approximately half the class failed to mention to me that the textbook for the course was out of stock in the campus bookstore. Not a huge problem, and it was taken care of within a week, but they chose to wait until the day before the first test to inform me.

Edit: And to the OP, as others have said, and as I'm sure you've already done, just speak with your professor. It's obviously a mistake, and I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a reason as to why he/she would have even the smallest problem with fixing things right up. The only potential problem I'd see is if this was something that you noticed and knew about from the fourth week on, and chose not to mention it until now. Even then it should be an easy fix, although that might irk the professor a bit.

 

[Locut0s]

Sounds like some kind of registration fuck up.

 

[Hacp]

Ok I got a response from the professor. It was in fact not his fault but mine. Apparently, I didn't sign an attendance sheet the first 2 weeks so he marked me as never attended. He will not give me credit for the course, but he has the power to change the Not Attended to Withdrawn which is not an F. I will need to take the same class again and it is not offered in the spring. FML! UGH.

Hey, on the bright side, I might get a better grade. I was almost certainly going to get a B- in that class. I might be able to boost it up to a B.

 

[Whisper]

Ok I got a response from the professor. It was in fact not his fault but mine. Apparently, I didn't sign an attendance sheet the first 2 weeks so he marked me as never attended. He will not give me credit for the course, but he has the power to change the Not Attended to Withdrawn which is not an F. I will need to take the same class again and it is not offered in the spring. FML! UGH.

Hey, on the bright side, I might get a better grade. I was almost certainly going to get a B- in that class. I might be able to boost it up to a B.

If you've taken all of the tests, then depending on your university, you may be able to go to the dean of students and appeal for the withdrawn to be changed to an appropriate letter grade. Given that you were handing in work with your name on it to the professor, he likely should have contacted you before the end of the semester to let you know that you would not be receiving credit, rather than letting you continue to turn in work. However, since you attended the class and completed all required assignments, you may be entitled to a grade regardless of what your professor says. However, again, this depends on your university.

 

[Cheesetogo]

What the hell? I would be bitching up a storm with a department right now if I was in your place. How can you be okay with not getting credit for the class?

 

[newnameman]

Ok I got a response from the professor. It was in fact not his fault but mine. Apparently, I didn't sign an attendance sheet the first 2 weeks so he marked me as never attended. He will not give me credit for the course, but he has the power to change the Not Attended to Withdrawn which is not an F. I will need to take the same class again and it is not offered in the spring. FML! UGH.

Hey, on the bright side, I might get a better grade. I was almost certainly going to get a B- in that class. I might be able to boost it up to a B.

So were you not in class those first two weeks? Or did you just somehow miss that there was an attendance sheet?

 

[Ronstang]

Attendance in college courses is nothing more than an ego trip for the prof. If you can make an A+ in a class without ever showing up except for tests then why should you go? To stroke the prof's ego? I guess they cannot handle the fact that there are people out there that are smart enough to not NEED THEM to learn something.

 

[Hacp]

So were you not in class those first two weeks? Or did you just somehow miss that there was an attendance sheet?

I was unaware that there was an attendance sheet at all. No one passed anything to me, I guess that's what I get for sitting in the back.

 

[TecHNooB]

It's kind of surprising how your professor is totally unaware that you were in his class. If you attend regularly, professors usually remember your face. Mine do, anyway. Did you sit in the back and never ask questions? lol

 

[Hacp]

Attendance in college courses is nothing more than an ego trip for the prof. If you can make an A+ in a class without ever showing up except for tests then why should you go? To stroke the prof's ego? I guess they cannot handle the fact that there are people out there that are smart enough to not NEED THEM to learn something.

Its not the professor's policy. I guess it has something to do with state funding. Also, even if you were Gibbs himself, not attending a lecture probably means you drop half a letter grade come exam time.

 

[Hacp]

It's kind of surprising how your professor is totally unaware that you were in his class. If you attend regularly, professors usually remember your face. Mine do, anyway. Did you sit in the back and never ask questions? lol

He was aware of me. However, the grade is an automatic grade assignment given to you if you never showed up the first few weeks. The professor was totally unaware that I was marked never present. However, when he eventually goes online to plug in our grades, my name won't be on the list.