Every time I sit down to grade finals I have a mild panic
attack. Granted – I am prone to over thinking and anxiety anyway – but I don’t
have this with grading at any other point in the year. 

      Questions swirling around
my head;

•       Was my final good enough? What makes a final a
  final anyway??
•       If my students didn’t stress out over my final
  did I even do my job?
•       Why didn’t I write a better rubric? Why didn’t I
  foresee the glitches?
•       How much should this assessment impact my student’s grade this late in the semester?
•       How would another (better) teacher grade this?
  Do I really know what I am doing?
•       Did I grade too hard? Was I way too soft? –
  Probably the latter honestly.
•       Are my grades too high? I really am happy with
  the work have done but shouldn’t my grades be more like a bell curve than a Nike
  swoosh?
•       How does someone go to summer school for religion
  anyway??
•        Should I let students know that the grades are in in
  case they want to see them before Christmas Would that just be chaos?
•      Ah.

Anyway – my grades are in. Per my usual I went over
everything 10 times to make sure there were no surprises. Is this a new teacher
thing? Is this a crazy person thing? Does anyone else question the heck out of
themselves before submitting grades?