Comments closed for grading, and other matters

It is time to total everything up in preparation for final grades, so comments are going to be shut down by midnight tonight at the latest.

There have been a few anonymous posts lately, which you may remember are not allowed. The person who decided it was a good idea to start calling us names had their post deleted, per the rules outlined in the syllabus. Almost everyone else was able to follow the rules and has our thanks.

I fully endorse Sarah's comment below on the matter of interim grades. We are not allowed to mass post your grades in any form, even anonymously, so the best we can do is the same thing you can do yourselves, get a rough average of your previous tests and papers. There simply is not time to individually email 200 people in the end of semester rush, and there would be little purpose in doing so. Your job as a student is to do the best you can every time out. That is especially true if the problem is, as suggested in the deleted post, that students don't actually know their own previous grades because they threw their earlier tests and papers away. I sincerely hope that is not the case.

I will offer a piece of advice: take some pride in your work, and hold on to all your graded assignments until you graduate, beyond if you plan any sort of public career. Certainly keep them through the end of the courses you are taking. You never know when you might need a letter of recommendation, want to refer back to something you learned, or find yourself in some sort of academic problem or dispute.