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DUBBA TEE EFF
Dec. 19th, 2008 07:00 amGODDAMMIT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA I HATE YOU SO MUCH
AN INCH OF ICE, LIKE A FOOT OF SNOW, AND FINALS ARE GOING AHEAD AS SCHEDULED
...the sad thing is, I'm familiar with university administration, and know that basically they never cancel classes (here or my undergrad) unless a) the university has lost power, b) there is an inch-thick sheet of solid ice on the road, or c) a foot and a half of snow falls in like 2 hours. Since the ice that fell is not a solid sheet, I shouldn't even have gotten my hopes up. But because the university was acting like a chicken with its head cut off and sending out all kind of emails all ZOMG THE SKY IS FALLING, GATHER YOUR BABIES AND YOUR BEADWORK AND FLEE FOR THE HILLS FROM THE HORRIBLE WINTER STORM, YOUR FINALS MAY BE CANCELLED I foolishly assumed there was a possibility of them in fact being cancelled.
I would say that at least I won't have to deal with the annoying incompletes, but of course, because it IS so crap out there, inevitably I'll have some students who won't be able to show up for weather-related reasons (honestly, if I had to drive from West Liberty or North Liberty or somesuch shit, I wouldn't go in either, since most of the highways are not in fact clear) and I'll have to give them incompletes ANYWAY. At least if classes were cancelled I could have just graded everyone sans final, and just given an incomplete to those who wanted the potential boost a final exam might bring to their grade.
So, in less tl;dr: "grump."
AN INCH OF ICE, LIKE A FOOT OF SNOW, AND FINALS ARE GOING AHEAD AS SCHEDULED
...the sad thing is, I'm familiar with university administration, and know that basically they never cancel classes (here or my undergrad) unless a) the university has lost power, b) there is an inch-thick sheet of solid ice on the road, or c) a foot and a half of snow falls in like 2 hours. Since the ice that fell is not a solid sheet, I shouldn't even have gotten my hopes up. But because the university was acting like a chicken with its head cut off and sending out all kind of emails all ZOMG THE SKY IS FALLING, GATHER YOUR BABIES AND YOUR BEADWORK AND FLEE FOR THE HILLS FROM THE HORRIBLE WINTER STORM, YOUR FINALS MAY BE CANCELLED I foolishly assumed there was a possibility of them in fact being cancelled.
I would say that at least I won't have to deal with the annoying incompletes, but of course, because it IS so crap out there, inevitably I'll have some students who won't be able to show up for weather-related reasons (honestly, if I had to drive from West Liberty or North Liberty or somesuch shit, I wouldn't go in either, since most of the highways are not in fact clear) and I'll have to give them incompletes ANYWAY. At least if classes were cancelled I could have just graded everyone sans final, and just given an incomplete to those who wanted the potential boost a final exam might bring to their grade.
So, in less tl;dr: "grump."
