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So I just got my mark back from my CMPUT course that I mentioned earlier.

A little run down of the drama:

• Our team busted our butts off working to finish the group project worth 35% of our overall mark.
• We also did a wicked presentation (many said it was the best in the class).  However, part of the presentation marks are computed by peer reviews (which is really stupid since it’s a curved class).
• The end result was that we got 100% on our term project, but the problem was that the light marking put the lowest mark in the class at 91%.  On a curved course that’s really harsh.  Even worse… the worst project in the class is an embarrassment to our department and in no way deserves such a high mark.
• We got ranked 4th for our presentation because of retarded peer reviews and other factors.
• Since the class marks are so high and clustered, the prof decided to make a really tough epilogue exam that was supposed to be worth only 15%.  However, from the unfairly high project marks and clustering of the grades, this meant that our entire mark hinged on how well we wrote this “15%” exam.
• We complained hard to the prof.

That’s right.  We got 100% on the  project and we still complained!  The prof took our side into consideration and remarked all the projects  as well as the presentations.

I just got the marks in 10 minutes ago.  Victory!!!  (Yes, I’ll be an ass about it!)  Our team managed to clinch best term
project and presentation for the class.  More importantly, the spread of the grades are wide.

Though it may sound like it, we deserved our marks through our hard work.  We didn’t lawyer up the prof to achieve this in any way.  It just feels so good that some sort of justice has been done, considering how polished our project was compared to one that crashed and didn’t work at demo time.  It would’ve been just disheartening to have our distinction robbed by some sloppy grading.

I was pretty close to an A+, but I’m really happy with the A as my final mark.

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