Advice please? I'm a first-year graduate student and am struggling tremendously in one of my classes. The thing is that the teacher's assistants keep taking points off erroneously from my grades. Every assignment, I have to keep going back and ask them to review my grades. This is tremendously embarrassing in front of my peers (the TA's are all PhD students), not to mention the professor, but I usually walk out with 5-10% more (consider the fact that if 100% is an A+ and I had a 75%, I just walked away with 80-85%...). There are only about five assignments this semester for that class, so each counts.
If I don't pass this class, I'm in trouble, so I keep going back for the points. If I were doing well in the class, I wouldn't bother.
If you were me, would you keep doing this - would you do whatever it takes to pass the class, even if you look annoying and desperate? Is it annoying and desperate to keep going back? Wouldn't I feel even worse if I didn't pass the class because I didn't go back to dispute the grades?