But more on my weekend later.
For the moment, here's a quick update of this most recent Miami-drama:
I went to class, and got my paper back (the one that I had left with the chair). Obviously, my GA had met with her. It was awkward, she wouldn't look at me, and she didn't revise my grade. I still had a 0. I meet her in her office hours, asking for a grade, becauseI don't deserve a 0 if I didn't plagiarize. She won't give me one, I have to resubmit my paper, edited, in order to get one. Thus, I cannot have the curve that the rest of the class is allowed. She won't apologize. She's terse. I'm peeved. I throw vague citations into the paper to appease her, and I start thinking of dropping the class.
I go to Jackson and Atlanta for the weekend and I don't think once about it. What bliss.
I come back and realize that I cannot withdraw from the class at this point. Nor can I just change it to a credit/no credit option. Class is still awkward and my GA won't look at me, even when I talk to her. I asked the Chair of the Dept. if I have any options outside of petitioning to an academic committee about withdrawing. She shrugs and says that she'll get back to me. I really like the Chair. She is just too awesome.
So that's it for the moment. We'll see if the Chair has anything to say. If she doesn't, that would be fine enough, but I REALLY don't want to write the final for this class- it's the same as this midterm. Great.
It would NOT be cool to withdraw from a course three weeks from the end of the semester. I hope your awesome chair helps come up with something, or that your GA will be fair and it will just blow over. Good luck!
Still hoping this works out the way it should, and by that I mean you getting the redemption you deserve.
Ouch. That is seriously not cool. Shame on the GA.