[nabs-l] professors and disability services

[Corbb O'Connor]

Hi Valerie,

I'm sure that through these experiences, you've learned--as many of us  
have--the hard way that procrastination is never a good idea! Having  
worked in a Disability Support Services office, I don't really have  
any solutions for you at this point for this past semester. But for  
next semester, I'd start early and harp on your professors to get you  
the information that you need.

On the bright side, though: you should have your notes or thoughts  
from the psych course even without the outline. So rely on those as  
you head toward the final exam. For your English class, I'd just  
present your professor with the e-mail where she said it would be fine  
to hand in the work late. Be polite, of course, and say you were  
relying on that message when working on the assignments.

Ponder this, though: something I've learned while studying here in  
Ireland. Do what you can, and if it doesn't work out, so be it.  
There's nothing more you can do for your English class, and you can  
study what you have for psych. Good luck, work hard, and look forward  
to doing something differently next semester!

Corbb O'Connor

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Corbb O'Connor
studying at the National University of Ireland, Galway

On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:11 PM, Valerie Gibson wrote:

Hi,
my name's Valerie. don't really post here much, but looking for
feeback on two situations i've got going on, which as you prob know:
situations before finals is never good. anyway...

one issue, i probably should have worked out sooner, but here it is:
when first regestering for my first year of psych, yes i'm a freshmen
btw, I emailed my professor and asked hi if he could send me any notes
and things that he shows the clas via email.  He's one of those
teachers who teaches in a large auditorium, and projects an outline
for the class to cpy and fill out based on his lectures.  Well,
natureally i don't see the outline, so i asked this accomidation.

"No." was his responce. he said that he needed to see a paper from
disability services (DSS), if he was going to provide that.

I didn't want to fight, and what harm could there be in going to DSS
to get the paper so long as i passsed the class, i thought.  so i did.

Well, the paper was a letter of accomidation where i had to write down
any accomidations i may need, and take each paper to my professors.
they would sign off on it, and i'd bring it back to DSS.  Well, after
filling out the paper DSS told me to ome back in a few days to pick up
the copies to give to my professors.  Normally, they'd call my cell
when i needed to come by, and it wasn't until three weeks later that i
finally got the paper, and even after my psych professor's signature,
i've still not gotten my outline.

Second issue:  my english professor was probably the most open
professor i've gotten this year. she was open to working with me, even
when i didn't want to work with DSS, and emailed anything she gave the
class to me.

We have four projects that we have to write by the end of the
semester, and we can revise as many times as she wants.   My first
project got a good grade, but she pulled me aside on the second
project, and told me that it earned an "unsatisfactory", the lowest
grade, based on the formatting.  natureally i understood that i should
have worked on finding someone to check the formatting.  So i had to
revise.

The papers were due yesterday, and unfortuneately, i was sick over the
holidays, and wasn't in school.  I emailed my professor and asked her
if i could email her the papers that day, and give her the physical
papers the next day, to which she rudely told me that i could.

If anyone knows my household, i don't get that much support with
little things, like having a sighted person check to see if my lines
are double spaced and things, so the next day, i got back to campus, i
ran by the writing center just to ask them if my formating was okay,
before running to my english teacher's office and turning it in...and
now, she's "having to think on wether she will even take it".

and if she doesn't, i will fail.  and i'm already failing psych due to
the information provided above...any thought?

Val

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