I missed some of last semester due to an illness and as a result I had to take an incomplete in one of my classes, and make it up this semester with a different professor (let’s call him professor X). The agreement was that I would take the course over with professor X, and then professor X would give my final grade to my original professor so that he could change my incomplete. All of my other grades were posted a few days ago, but I still did not see my incomplete grade from last semester changed, so I just sent Professor X an email last Friday reminding him to give my grade to my original professor. Now, he replies this morning with an email that scares the hell out of me…
First of all, Professor X says that he has no record of me taking his course as a make up (he seems to think I was officially taking his course), when I clearly remember talking to him about it at the beginning of the semester. Now worst of all, he says “ACCORDING TO OUR RECORDS, YOU DID NOT TAKE THE FINAL EXAM.” ***???!!! He says that my final grade for his class would be a D+ including a zero for the exam, and that I will need to talk to my original prof regarding a settlement for my grade.
This was the exam that I spent the entire weekend studying for, and I definitely did take it…I have no idea what he is talking about! Now I’m not even sure how to reply to him or what to do from here- it seems to me that he lost my final, how the hell can I prove that I did take it? The worst part is that if I remember right, he wasn’t even there during our final…he just had a bunch of TAs or grad students to proctor it. This was such a large class that even if he was there, he probably did not see me, because I certainly didn’t see him at all during the final.
Does anybody have ANY ideas of how I should reply to him and what I should say? He already sent a carbon copy of my initial email along his response to my original professor, so now my original professor will think that I just skipped the final or whatever, and who knows what he will do…maybe assign the D+?
I really have no clue of how to prove that I was there during the final since the class was so large. I do know a couple of people in the class, but I can’t be sure that they saw me there in such a large classroom, and even if they did, I doubt that the professor would take their word for it. The only thing I can think of is that I do remember some of the TAs that were there- I vaguely remember what one or two of them looked like and where they were sitting/standing. I remember asking a question or two from one of the TAs who was sitting near me (near the back of the room), and I turned my exam in to this same TA. I wonder if she would recognize my face if she saw me, and then she could testify that I was there. This would be quite a stretch of luck anyway since she was dealing with tons of other students, so why would she remember me, someone she doesn’t even know (I am foreign tho so that may help). But who knows if she was a senior who graduated, and even if she wasn’t, she probably won’t be around on campus during the summer, and neither am I. I am now at home, over 200 miles away from campus, so I have really no way of meeting with the professor in person or anything. Ok I can’t write any more because I don’t know what to do…does anyone have any ideas? SORRY THIS IS SO LONG