I found a book that had helpful info on grad school applications and other related stuff.

Graduate School: Winning Strategies for Getting in with or Without Excellent Grades ISBN: 0968217346

You won't know if your prof will write a letter if you don't ask...

Sounds like you should use these last few weeks of school to impress your professors! The grad school letters show that people who have been in grad school and know what you are like as a student believe you can make it in grad school. If you use work references you should try to get them from people with PhDs. Still the general rule of thumb is to have more academic than work references.

great to know I have some slack professors since they wont remember me and I did pretty well. guess grad school is a no for me unless I work under good people then. Thanks for the help.

I was out of school for 6 years wen i applied to grad school and i called my professor who i had taken my field school from and she wrote a god reference for me. My grades werent all that good so I got admitted on "provisional" status. No big deal at least I was in and I did OK. I even got a real archeology job when I got out with a new MA.

My advice is to talk to your professors now and ask them if they would write a good reference for you in a year or 2.

Good Luck!

CMM

You indicate a concern about your profs since you did well in class but they fear they will not remember you. The trick is not just to do well in class, but to be involved, to get their attention, show interest in the topic beyond doing the minimum needed to get an A.

Keep in mind that once you get to Grad School, it is pretty much all on you to do the work. You need to do a lot more than the class work to succeed - choose your own research topics, track down the profs to help and get directions, etc. If you had already been doing this as an undergrad, your teachers probably would not have a problem remembering you.

I have taught on and off as and Grad Assistant, and then and adjunct for the last 26 years, and there are still many students that come to mind immediately - but there were not always the ones with the best grades. More often they are the ones that had to work hard, that interacted with me to get help, to do extra work, or to take on extra projects on their own. This is the type of person that sticks in your mind, both for the time you actually spend interacting with them, and for the initiative they show, a sign that they will somehow be successful even if they don't do well grade wise.

Good Luck and I hope you can impress your profs in whatever time you have left.

DM

thanks a lot everybody, I was just concerned about that teacher's manner when I asked her about what I should do, she was my advisor, main arch teacher, and I did a project under her. Im just going to find another way around this but I'm not really stressed about it much anymore. c'est la vie.

I would suggest going into the field for a bit...there is some difference between the academic field and the CRM field and its helpfull to know that.
I think you underestimate your proffesors...i have never heard any stories of proffesors writing bad reviwes about people so they dont get into grad school.