abnormal psych: f'd up?

[kodalai]

So, of course, can't have a class in which anything runs smoothly.

There was a lot of mixup in the beginning of the class over the textbook. Apparently it wasn't in the bookstore, or wasn't enough in the bookstore, or something like that, but there was a good two or three weeks in the beginning of the class where nobody had the book. A bunch of people went and bought it online, so of course had to check with the teacher as to which texbook they wanted.

Now, my book-buying strategy this year was thus: go to the bookstore first day I got back, note down the name and author of every book the catalogue said is required for the class, and see if I can buy it online. So, doing this for my Psych class, I ended up with a book of Abnormal Psychology, fifth edition. However, I noticed that the other people all seemed to be ending up with eleventh and twelfth editions; so, just to be sure, I brought my textbook into class, showed it to the teacher, and said "Is this good?" and she said "Yes, that's good."

However, when taking my first exam -- an open-book exam -- I kept having the uneasy sensation of "wtf, this guy isn't even mentioned in my book. And this stuff isn't covered for another nine chapters. O_o" That probably should have tipped me off, but I figured maybe the exam was just designed to be very challenging.

Got the results back from the exam today: the highest class score was a perfect 50, and the lowest was a 38. Guess whose was the 38?

*head --> desk*

So, went to talk to the professor, said "You said the fifth edition was okay, right?" and she said "O_o I wouldn't have said 5th edition was okay, that one's much too old."

O...kay. Hopefully we can work something out, because I can't afford to get a bad grade in Abnormal Psych. That's my easiest class this semester. It had better be an ace, because with E4 and especially Japanese dragging me down, I may be in trouble otherwise.

Comments

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Wow. That sucks so much. You must have felt awful, but I hope you know it was SO not your fault and you can't beat yourself up about it!

(::remembering that feeling::)

[kodalai.livejournal.com]

I'm not too stressed about it, surprisingly. May have maxed out stress quotient already. I'm pretty sure the prof will be reasonable, it's just another case of "gah, NOW what?"

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a healthy attitude.