Every student begs for extra credit at least once during the semester, usually after you bomb a test or write a truly atrocious paper. You usually hope for a one page write up of some extra lecture someone is giving on campus, or an extra homework assignment or something. Anything that will help boost your grade. It doesn’t matter what it is or how long it takes, most students will do anything for a few extra credit points.
I am no stranger to the begging for extra credit thing. I do it all the time. It’s just a bit different for me, being a psychology major. Sure, I’ve done the occasional extra paper or movie write-up, but most of my extra credit does not involve anything more strenuous than circling numbers on a survey. Nearly every single psychology professor I’ve had will give us an extra credit point for participating in some sort of study another professor is running. I’ve had my grade boosted an entire letter grade just for agreeing to be in a few studies.
Yesterday I got an email from my Animal Behavior professor. She’s still sick and told us that if we wanted to get an extra point tacked onto our final grade at the end of the semester, all we had to do was show up to class today and fill out a survey. Seemed easy enough, so I went. The research assistant passed out the survey and it took me ten minutes to complete. The class is an hour and a half long. So not only do I get an extra credit point, I got to have nearly an entire class canceled. Ten minutes for a point? Yep, totally worth it!
I love being a psychology major.
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