My mathematician sister can't be trusted to balance the checkbook because she makes mistakes with addition/subtraction. Linear algebra? No problem! Calculus? Child's play! Subtracting the check she just wrote me for a gift we're splitting for our niece? Horrors!

I'm pretty sure that most mathematicians can't do arithmetic.

This girl is offering to do extra credit to move her grade up to the A.

I always shut that down immediately by saying it wasn't fair to other students, especially when it's brought up at the end of the semester.

I am flexible, but again, when someone isn't happy with the grade they legitimately earned (i.e., barring extenuating circumstances), then that is their problem, not yours.

Or you can tell her that you don't move grades up, but that you are willing to consider lowering her grade.

I always shut that down immediately by saying it wasn't fair to other students, especially when it's brought up at the end of the semester.

I am flexible, but again, when someone isn't happy with the grade they legitimately earned (i.e., barring extenuating circumstances), then that is their problem, not yours.

Or you can tell her that you don't move grades up, but that you are willing to consider lowering her grade.

This was always my language coordinator's response when students asked for a certain grade or test section to be re-graded:

I'm happy to review the entire grade/test, but keep in mind this review may lower your overall grade.

This girl is offering to do extra credit to move her grade up to the A.

Too little, too late.

I'm such a grade whore, but I also totally know that I get the grade I earn. I remember one of my profs from last semester commented on my final paper, saying it was one of the best papers she'd ever read. Then she very carefully said she would have to consider my class grade, as my work throughout the semester did not reach the caliber of my final paper.

I ran into her when she went to turn in my grade change. She told me my grade, and I think she expected to get an argument, and I was like, "Really? That's awfully generous."

In other words, what's what's wrong with people?

Waiting to hear how Aims is doing...

She's doing ok. Well, as ok as can be expected.

I'm applying for several jobs and hope that something will come along that I will be good at and that I will enjoy.

More in a sec - I have to put a certain little to bed.

Sigh. I emailed her again with "The grades are final now." She emailed me back to tell me, once again, that she's just one point away from an A, and does one point really matter that much? (Yes. It does.)

Just don't reply.

Hil, respond and say, "If you e-mail me again, I will publish your e-mail address on a public website, and you will start hearing how wrong-headed you are from people all over the world."