Macbeth

We went and saw Macbeth last night, the great Shakespearian tragedy, which is being put on by the Citadel. They had "changed" the story, placing it in a world war II setting. It didn't work. There was problems with enunciation and sentence breaks, so the wording was really hard to understand. Something that needs to be dealt with carefully while dealing with Shakespeare's plays. Out of the whole play, the best acted characters were those done by the children. How sad is that. The final review: Don't waste your money; you will be disappointed

My mark for my Christian exam came back. Are we all ready for this: 18/45. That is the worst that I have ever failed any test but I knew that mark was coming so at least it wasn't a shock. I went and talked with my prof afterwards. I briefly explained that when I'm under stress, the bipolar starts to cycle. When I'm off balance, I have trouble holding onto thoughts for more than a few seconds. While this doesn't greatly effect a multiple choice exam (they are typically timed so that I can read a question a couple of times if I need to) or a short answer, it reeked havoc with the long written responses. My prof understood. He said he is more than willing to accommodate this but that we should try the official methods before we work out something on our own. He suggested that I go and talk with the students with disabilities office. So I went and told them briefly what was going on. As soon as I said bipolar, the receptionist said that I was going to need to see one of their advisors. I have an appointment for next Thursday.

The other thing that my prof said was that when he is deciding on final marks, he takes a lot into consideration. Things such as if you get a really low mark on your first exam and really high marks on your next midterm and the final, then he will scrap the mark from your first midterm and give you the mark off of the later tests. This means that I shouldn't give up and that I can still get a good mark in this class.

And he said that he would help me out. If I start planning my questions out (we already have the questions for the next test), I can bring them to him and he will help make sure that I'm on the right track. He even has some well written exams from past terms that I can look at (for questions similar to our last exam of course). This is perfect because then I can write an answer that is very similar to what he is looking for.

I'm so glad that I have a prof that really wants his students to succeed and do well in his course. He realizes that a lot of people who take the course probably aren't studying to be theologians.

All in all, it is a huge relief. I better get going. I have some planning to do.