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Bumping into the wood because of the trees

Can I get nothing right? I don’t like how things are going since Dr Bowman turned up. We’ve gone about four years into the past with the reappearance of adjustments to the exam marks after we (including me) recommended that such alterations be left till the very end, but now it’s all out in the open again. Madam Mao observed that we were doing something that no American university would ever see, and my preference is that we make such alterations in the background, but leave the public marks alone. I do have a formula for making such conversions, which works perfectly, but Dr Bowman insisted on reverting to conversion tables with marks of his own devising. Tables?! The reason why I devised a formula was because tables were sodding nuisances, although I also know how to circumvent the lack of a formula by using Excel to look things up for me. Bowman doesn’t listen to advice. In fact, he spends most of his time in his office, having no idea (as far as I can tell) what goes