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B+

My heart sank as I saw the letter grade

B+

My graduate career was over, if that grade stood It was tantara less than an A if you wanted to keep your standing in the progra jobs after your courseas finished

My sto to my eyes I knew I should have taken the incomplete

Luke came into my office and I tried to hideand I certainly didn't want hirade, but I couldn't keep it from him

"What?" He bent down, takingme to face him "What's the matter?"

"I got"B

+"

He ood at all

"I should have trustedmy eyes "Now, my career is over It's over"

"What?" He knelt beside my chair and took my face in his hands "Of course it's not over You can appeal it You can ask for a rewrite"

"Oh, yeah, and that will look really good on rade Student asks for rewrite People will be dying to ith ut and not handed it in"

I covered my eyes and cried into my hands I felt so totally crushed, erade, o to another faculty rade, it would stand From what I knew of these cases, ue's assessment of a paper unless it was clearly mistaken or biased

At o up to an A- but even if I appealed, it ht stay at B+ and would alienate me from the faculty From then on, I'd be considered a whiner