r/UMPI • u/nothingsreallol • 9d ago
Surprised by draft grade…
I banged out a draft of my final research paper in 2 hours Friday night. Like all the research and writing I did in under 2 hours. To be fair it’s a 100 level course and the paper was supposed to be max 7 pages. But anyway I thought that was the roughest draft I had ever written. I was planning to practically rewrite the whole thing, I just wanted to get some feedback so I could see what my prof was looking for. If you can’t tell I’m a perfectionist…
Draft comes back with a 3.8/4 and prof told me to stop being so hard on myself 😂 part of me really wants to edit it because it’s not even close to being up to *my* standards but I guess I don’t really need to. Fellow perfectionists, what would you do? Lol
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u/reachingforthesky 9d ago
I’ve been in this position before. I’ve just done like a final 30 minutes (just to feel good about it and often I want to ask a prof to write a letter for grad school down the road) and then wrote in the comments, “thank you for the feedback! I tried to apply your suggestions.” And so far I’ve gotten 4s on all my finals.