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Specializes in Critical Care, Trauma, Emergency.

I'm in too! This & finishing Chemistry @ Clovis Community College, then I'm DONE!!

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I'm in!!

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I'm in too! This & finishing Chemistry @ Clovis Community College, then I'm DONE!!

Lucky you. I bet you can almost taste it! I'm in Chem @ Clovis this semester too. After this semester I have 4 more. I will be taking 4600 in the Fall. Woohoo.

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Lucky you. I bet you can almost taste it! I'm in Chem @ Clovis this semester too. After this semester I have 4 more. I will be taking 4600 in the Fall. Woohoo.

You're not kidding! It tastes like Apple Pie with vanilla bean ice cream! I am SOOOO done- completely fried. Thank Goodness Chem @ Clovis is reasonable & not a torture fest like this! I can't believe I'm going to tell you this- I used to want to bop people in the head with a frying pan when they said it to me- but, it really does go by fast... YOU CAN DO IT!!!

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My TA is the slowest grader ever....we finally have our week one grades this morning! Ugh, just had to vent!!

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Ok Good Nurses... I need HELP!!! Present participants, or those who have already taken this class (especially you guys & gals): What is the flippin' deal with this class? I am in section 1059. TA (C.S.) is already making me insane. Every single previous class- had to reference websites using : "Retrieved on (insert date here) from: http:// whatever website" NOW, in the last class, it's wrong??? Also know that if either a website or doi are not included in your references, even if you don't have one, that's wrong too. The assignment instructions are NOT clear, as usual, and I really have no idea what we are supposed to be doing here for our PhD in APAology... ANY thoughts, tips, and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!!!

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Ok Good Nurses... I need HELP!!! Present participants or those who have already taken this class (especially you guys & gals): What is the flippin' deal with this class? I am in section 1059. TA (C.S.) is already making me insane. Every single previous class- had to reference websites using : "Retrieved on (insert date here) from: http:// whatever website" NOW, in the last class, it's wrong??? Also know that if either a website or doi are not included in your references, even if you don't have one, that's wrong too. The assignment instructions are NOT clear, as usual, and I really have no idea what we are supposed to be doing here for our PhD in APAology... ANY thoughts, tips, and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!!![/quote']

Which APA manual are you using? The 6th ed changed the "retrieved on date". Check out the Purdue Owl for the current recommendations. It is frustrating but you are almost done!!!

As far as instructions not being clear...develop a close relationship with your TA and do not submit anything until a day before the deadline. Do the assignment early, but wait to submit it. That way, you can watch the rest of your classmates clarify issues, get answers, and see directions get changed BEFORE you hit submit.

The diploma really is worth all of the aggravation!

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Thank You. To be honest, I threw the 6th edition APA manual in the garbage a week after I got it. I've used OWL the entire time. I sent this TA an email with examples of discussion postings, from every single nursing class I've taken- all 8 of them- including the grades ( full points ) and comments "good APA" . I'm not going to look for her reply until tomorrow, so I won't be too angry to sleep AGAIN tonight. This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever done in my life. I can't wait until it's over. The only thing I've gained is a vehement hatred for institutional learning, which is sad, because I was always the weird kid who cried and wanted to go to school on snow days... Worth two years of my life, numerous grey hairs, even more numerous wrinkles, time with the people I love that I will never get back, and all the things I really wanted to do, but couldn't, all for this stupid piece of paper that someone decided we all MUST have, or be declared worthless? I think not... Thanks for listening, as well as your encouragement...

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I have same TA and my paper is being shredded. I'm debating dropping the class as I am investing way too much time and energy into a project that is borderline failing. I don't see the situation improving. I'm curious to hear what her response is to you to see if it is even worth emailing her to fight for points.

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I have same TA and my paper is being shredded. I'm debating dropping the class as I am investing way too much time and energy into a project that is borderline failing. I don't see the situation improving. I'm curious to hear what her response is to you to see if it is even worth emailing her to fight for points.

Mimi,

I will absolutely post to let you, and everyone else, know what happens. I should have known I would end up with another psycho to torture me to the bitter end... I may drop too, just to get away from this one. She told me, in a previous communication, that this is the first time she has TA'd for this particular class, so either she is trying to impress the higher ups, or she always stinks, but they had no one else available... For Gerontology I had a similar idiot that told me "You got what you paid for...ha ha ha" when I explained that there is some weird glitch in my word processing program that kept me from putting "running head" on the first page of my papers- either it appears on all pages, or I would have to take it off, so none had it, no matter what I tried- she took off so many points for that one single thing that it dropped me an entire letter grade. I HATE these people.

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For Gerontology I had a similar idiot that told me "You got what you paid for...ha ha ha"

Oh my goodness, that's horrible!

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