I ended up getting a response back from the department chair within approximately an hour of my email. Her email stated (paraphrased) the following:
- my project advisor is currently in India (his home country)
- the department secretary is on vacation
- I'm not the first person this has happened to this quarter
- my advisor has already been made aware of this situation
- when my advisor contacts her with a letter grade for me, she'll handle it
I'm one of I think a total of three students who worked with this same instructor on their projects. I'd be willing to bet that he did the same thing to the other two - I know for a fact that there's at least
one other student - she's supposed to be going to grad school this summer - hopefully she gets this taken care of soon too or it'll be a short trip to her grad program. Oh well. As long as it gets taken care of soon....