don't worry, be happy
My class has been over for 2 weeks. In general, I think grades are supposed to be posted the week following finals. I've been checking for my grade everyday since 5/8, and I have no grade. Yesterday I even asked our college secratary if she got her grades yet, and she said "yeah, I thought they were all supposed to be posted like 2 weeks ago"
"Yeah, me too"
So I've been starting to sweat this, why isn't my grade posted? I know I blew the first test HUGE. I got great grades on everything else, all the labs, projects and homeworks, but with only 2 tests at 30% each, that doesn't matter much.
The lovely thing about grad school (at least in the engineering college) is that no grade less than a B counts towards your degree, so anything less than a B is a good as an F. I get a freaking 59 on the first test. I'm nearly suicidal. Even if I get 100% on every other assignment, I would need a 90 or better on the final to get a B. Possible, just not terribly likely.
So everything was going to ride on the final.
I study my brains out, and then came the final.
8 problems of varying points each, the last being 20 points.
I felt like I nailed all but two. Which two? One 15 pointer, and of course, the 20 pointer. I ran out of time for the last one, and literally wrote "You need to do X,Y,Z (replaced of course by a couple of sentences of real engineering jargon), but I've run out of time, and just wanted to put something down to show that I knew how to approach the problem"
In other words "Please have mercy on me"
So cleary, I only write all this because today I checked, and my grade is finally posted, B+. I almost fell out of my chair.
My academic career can continue now.