I’m not asking for a miracle, or: O Hod, why can’t it just be right?

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So, I’m going to talk about school a little because I just finished doing my Med Term homework(Yea. At 1.30 in the morning). First of all, I like this class, I really, really do. Hell, I’m loving all of my courses, quite frankly.

I mean, it’s a force of will that I don’t post the first written assignment I did for my Psych class. It’s the first report I’ve written in oh, over ten years, and I got a perfect score on it, which makes me feel so fucking insanely proud. Then there were the two quizzes after that that I did, that I got perfect scores on as well.

But one of the small issues I’m having in my Med Term class is that our homework online is frequently riddled with mis-spellings. Here’s an example:

Build a medical term that means enlargement of the spleen.
The proper answer for this is: splenomegaly. That term comes straight from our textbook. The answers for the homework, however, says the answer is : spleenomegaly, so according to the computer, I got the answer wrong. Now, mind you, the teacher for the course goes in and double checks our work by hand, but still. It also did this for splenectomy and hematopoiesis(it gives the answer as hemtopoeisis, which is another incorrect spelling on it’s part).

It will also do this if you don’t give it the answer to a question EXACTLY the way it wants it, such as:

The organs of the lymphatic system other than lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes are: Spleen, tonsils, thymus gland. That’s what I put.
This is what it wants: spleen, tonsils, and thymus.
Thus, I got that wrong, too.  And it does this every time. I don’t know if the teacher sets the answers up herself or not, but if so, I’m a little worried that she’s spelling things wrong!

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