Don't lie to yourself

the last two are true for me depending on stuff. One prof i had fucked up grades for almost the entire class and the ran away to Germany a week before finals and a few people had to retake the class including me because of it.

Maybe I don't speak for all teachers when I say this, but at my school, we teachers are practically throwing points at students who do their work. You wrote your name at the top of a worksheet and did one problem out of 10? Sounds like a 50 to me! You got half the questions wrong but still completed the entire homework assignment? 70! Teachers can give as many points as they want for assignments, but the one thing we can't do is give points for work that hasn't been attempted or turned in. All we can give for that is a zero.