Hopefully this will be the last time I post about comps aside from [crosses fingers] maybe that post that says that I passed.
Anyway, the saga began with the knowledge that we were allowed to take our comps answers home over the weekend to edit them for spelling and grammar mistakes (NO content alterations, NO citation alterations, NO meaning alterations). The professors received a copy of our original answers and we were instructed to save those on our personal jump drive and then turn in the “edited” answers today by noon.
Somewhere between that happening and Friday evening I realized that my jump drive was missing.
I tried not to freak out over the weekend because I figured that I probably left it in the computer lab or in my office on campus, and that I would pick it up Monday morning and bang out the edits before class started at 9:55. Great in theory, except when I went to campus at 9am the jump drive was nowhere to be found. So I spent the greater part of the morning hunting down the IT guy for the department and trying to find out if there was any way he could recover the answers I wrote during the exam so that I could turn them in by noon and still have them count.
THANKFULLY, he was able to do that, so I just turned in my original answers and crossed my fingers that they will be all right. I know there were some issues with its and it’s and me not knowing the difference between those words, but I really don’t think that will affect the way that my answers are scored. If it does, I’ll be darned.
I did find the jump drive this evening. It was in the pocket of the fleece sweatshirt I was wearing during comps. The sweatshirt was in the clothes hamper. L.O.L. At least now I have my teaching materials for tomorrow!
Behold, the evil sweatshirt, one of San Diego’s finest products.