Dissuaded

I received a low score on one of my psychology essays. It wouldn't have been so bad if I felt like all the points were big and genuine ones, but about half were nit picky, small things and some were out of my control or the online material had told me to do. I feel like my tutor is very harsh in her marking but I am still waiting for answers because she seems to be evading my emails. I'm understandably feeling low about all of this and has made me concerned about my future assignments. I know I would not be able to continue earning 90+ in my essays, but such a drastic drop was a surprise and a huge blow. It is making it hard for me to find the motivation to keep working when I feel like I am not good enough, in my tutor's eyes, to do well in my essays.

In other things, the work is very methodological at the moment. It is all about statistics and data, combined with interesting psychological things in another book. The other book is much easier to read because it's interesting, but the methods book literally causes me to fall asleep. It's frustrating because although it's not interesting, it is still useful information that I want to learn. Thankfully, most of it is going into my head though, which is a good thing. I'm going to try to forget about my TMA 02 score and hopefully do better in TMA 03, with the little and pointless feedback I received in TMA 02. :\