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Devastated after recent assignment grade - Cheeseburrito - 03-19-2019
I'm in the EC nursing ADN program and finished my first week of nursing core classes on Sunday. I received my first assignment grade back and got a 68.5. I'm crushed and feeling defeated like I haven't felt in a long time.
How do I recover from such an emotional defeat and move on to be successful? It feels like if I can't get something like this right maybe I should try a different career at this point.
RE: Devastated after recent assignment grade - davewill - 03-19-2019
Treat as a learning opportunity. Talk to the prof and/or a TA and fully understand what the deficiencies were. If they are such that you can address them in your future studies, then do so. If not, best you find out early and take another route.
RE: Devastated after recent assignment grade - triforce828 - 03-19-2019
Ditto on what davewill said.
To add in an experience I had:
At B&M university, on the first day of a technical writing class the instructor quickly stated he would be giving inconsequential Ds and Fs (maybe a couple of Cs) for the first few assignments. It was to shock students into producing better work. After a certain point he would transition into the actual grading. Yikes!
I eventually dropped the class due to a schedule conflict. However, I often wonder how the students in the class fared or if this sort of teaching technique worked.
I hope this is not the case for you. But it feels like I have had many professors who are SUPER hard graders the first couple of weeks in order to weed people out.
My kid got Ds for the first couple of TESU Capstone assignments. She read the comments on her assignments, emailed the professor, and realized her usual way of completing assignments weren't going to work. Her grades steadily improved from there, even received an A on the Capstone. However, those Ds brought the overall grade to a B. It was a good lesson in perseverance, flexibility, and really paying attention to the rubric.
I'd encourage you to stick with the class and communicate with the professor/TA, see how the next assignment goes, but keep an eye on the drop/withdraw dates.
Don't give up hope yet!
RE: Devastated after recent assignment grade - MrBossmanJr - 03-19-2019
It's only one assignment. In my calc-based physics course, I got a 64 on my first test and a 54 on my second test. Afterwards, I picked my grades back up to As on the next tests and did as much extra credit as possible. I ended up with an A for the semester. Just read and study the readings more carefully and follow the guidelines set by the professor and you'll do just fine.
RE: Devastated after recent assignment grade - udi - 03-19-2019
(03-19-2019, 11:54 AM)Cheeseburrito Wrote: I'm in the EC nursing ADN program and finished my first week of nursing core classes on Sunday. I received my first assignment grade back and got a 68.5. I'm crushed and feeling defeated like I haven't felt in a long time.I actually think it's not a big deal at all because it's only one assignment. Employers care about degrees, not grades. Just don't stop! This is NOTHING. I got put on academic alert one time because I got a D- in accounting. I was very sick during that semester and almost lost financial aid.
How do I recover from such an emotional defeat and move on to be successful? It feels like if I can't get something like this right maybe I should try a different career at this point.
RE: Devastated after recent assignment grade - cookderosa - 03-19-2019
(03-19-2019, 11:54 AM)Cheeseburrito Wrote: I'm in the EC nursing ADN program and finished my first week of nursing core classes on Sunday. I received my first assignment grade back and got a 68.5. I'm crushed and feeling defeated like I haven't felt in a long time.
How do I recover from such an emotional defeat and move on to be successful? It feels like if I can't get something like this right maybe I should try a different career at this point.
Wow, what a kick in the gut.
I considered dropping out of TESU when I failed a DSST exam. Seriously, it was such a blow to my psyche that I thought "I knew I wasn't smart enough to get a college degree! I should just quit."
Obviously I didn't quit- but it was more damaging than I expected, and even now writing you about it I can still feel those butterflies.
I can only tell you that you're going to have other blows - if not from your writing, then from some a-hole nurse manager or a doctor or a <gasp> patient who challenges your whatever - knowledge, professionalism, judgment. It's going to happen again.
If I had any advice, it would be to work on ways to build your resilience, because even if you stopped pursuing nursing, you will still need to build this muscle. (which is something that I'm still not great at btw)
RE: Devastated after recent assignment grade - Cheeseburrito - 03-19-2019
(03-19-2019, 04:12 PM)cookderosa Wrote:(03-19-2019, 11:54 AM)Cheeseburrito Wrote: I'm in the EC nursing ADN program and finished my first week of nursing core classes on Sunday. I received my first assignment grade back and got a 68.5. I'm crushed and feeling defeated like I haven't felt in a long time.
How do I recover from such an emotional defeat and move on to be successful? It feels like if I can't get something like this right maybe I should try a different career at this point.
Wow, what a kick in the gut.
I considered dropping out of TESU when I failed a DSST exam. Seriously, it was such a blow to my psyche that I thought "I knew I wasn't smart enough to get a college degree! I should just quit."
Obviously I didn't quit- but it was more damaging than I expected, and even now writing you about it I can still feel those butterflies.
I can only tell you that you're going to have other blows - if not from your writing, then from some a-hole nurse manager or a doctor or a <gasp> patient who challenges your whatever - knowledge, professionalism, judgment. It's going to happen again.
If I had any advice, it would be to work on ways to build your resilience, because even if you stopped pursuing nursing, you will still need to build this muscle. (which is something that I'm still not great at btw)
I needed to hear this. I've always had soft skin and take things very personally. You're right, I need to be resilient and strengthen my core so to speak.
RE: Devastated after recent assignment grade - clep3705 - 03-20-2019
Let's move the discussion off of grades to learning. What was the assignment? What was the nature of the deductions? If you lost many points from APA style violations, that's something that can easily be fixed. If it is knowledge or comprehension, that's another matter altogether. What is the class? How do you study? Did not start the assignment early or did you rush it to completion as the deadline was near?
How many Excelsior nursing students post here? Not very many. There are hundreds of thousands of nurses and nursing students at allnurses.com. Nursing students should post there, not here. You need to find a critical mass of people who have direct knowledge of Excelsior. If it only gets harder, you need to reevaluate. Are you taking on debt to do this?
RE: Devastated after recent assignment grade - Ideas - 03-20-2019
Did you do well in all your other classes? Do you know what the average score was for that exam?