u/Future_Range_2400

Hey guys, I’m hurting for some new music. My spotify age is probably like 70 I mainly listen to old stuff (Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Talking Heads, Steely Dan, the like) but I really like Geese/Cameron Winter, The Strokes, Radiohead, Mac Demarco and Faye Webster but I’m also getting into MJ Lenderman, This is Lorelei, etc. Pls give me any recommendations you think I’d appreciate! I especially need some female artist recs! Thanks!
(P.S. I’ve already tried BCNR I can’t get into it I’m sorry)

For context, I’m a first semester undergraduate English literary studies student.

As the title says, I’m wondering how you grade essays generally (I’m more specifically asking English professors)? One of my professors, who I really respect and admire, seemingly gives pretty arbitrary grades and upon asking him how he comes up with them he just said “it’s kind of random, mostly it’s measured by the originality of the argument, the clarity of it/if it’s thesis driven” or something to that effect. He leaves extensive comments on my prose, which I appreciate, because he only does it to make me a stronger writer, and he doesn’t seem to take off points for writing on a sentence level. However, sometimes, like on the recent feedback I received for a research paper, he gave an 87 mostly because of how I structured the paper, which is definitely important but since he said that “all the right things are there” it makes less sense to me that I got an 87. Not that that is a terrible grade, especially considering that he’s a notoriously harsh grader, but I feel like giving me an 87 just because of the structure when he says my argument is strong is a weird choice. How do you guys go about this? Would you do the same?