# College dopers, how'd you do this semester? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668 "2006-12-18T18:51:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/41 "2006-12-20T21:08:12Z")
Official grades: A- across the board. Adequately excellent, as usual. I’ll have to try harder next quarter. ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/42 "2006-12-20T22:08:20Z")
I got a 3.3 in General Chemistry (kinetics and equilibrium) and a 3.9 in Writers of the Beat Generation. I’m not really happy with that 3.3 because it’s in a science class, but in my defense I was working full time. Sigh. I’ll do better next time. ---
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/43 "2006-12-20T23:32:59Z")
I got an A in the medical sociology class I took this semester and a B+ in cell biology. I am more pleased by the B+ than the A because the biology class had way more material and I’m way better at remembering concepts than very technical information and processes. I graduated a year ago, I just took these out of some sort of dubious idea they’d be “fun”. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/44 "2006-12-21T02:36:08Z")
I had my last final of the year mid-day today, and I probably will not know anything about my grades until next year, because the online grade posting system will be closed on Friday, and I doubt that any of my classes will have finished the grading by then. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/45 "2006-12-21T03:42:08Z")
I had 23 students in my Calculus 150A class. 2 A’s, 4 B’s, 6 C’s, 4 D’s, 7 F’s. Somebody has to hold the line against grade inflation. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/46 "2006-12-21T16:08:49Z")
[QUOTE=Me] I only took one class this semester (ENGL 701 Literary Scholarship), and just e-mailed my final research paper last night … I’ve been all kinds of “I’m done!” happy since then. I won’t know my final grade until later this week, but I won’t be surprised if I get an “A” – then again, I also won’t be very surprised (just kinda disappointed) if I get a “B,” because I messed up one small assignment early on and my final paper was 2 pages shy of the minimum length. [/QUOTE] My final grade was posted today: A- ! Yay! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/47 "2006-12-21T16:41:28Z")
Thanks to this thread I went and looked to see if either of my grades had posted yet, and low and behold I got an ‘A’ in the course that I wasn’t sure of my grade in. So I got 'A’s in both of my classes this semester. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/48 "2006-12-21T17:08:39Z")
(on preview, this is a little confusing- I am a printmaking major/ Art History minor at a Fine Arts/design school.) Much better than I’d anticipated, actually shaping up to be the best semester gradewise since sophomore year. I was sick for 4 days the week before finals (slept for 18 hours when I planned a 3 hour nap, then puked for 12 hours, then spent two days recovering fluids and waiting to be sure I wasn’t going to inflict it on anybody else…) and I was afraid I was screwed. Apparantly all my work earlier in the semester paid off though: Senior Thesis\* : A- Cubism (400-level Art History): A\*\* Papermaking and Book Structure: A\*\*\* Imaging from Cinema: A+\*\*\*\* Chaucer and his World (Lit): still waiting, but I’m not worried about this one, it’s a 200-level and I did well on the midterm and I’m proud of my final paper. All in all a great semester, though it kicked my butt while it was going on- I did some great work and I think my thesis show in May is going to be excellent. I also spent the last few days after classes ended pulling my final proofs for a solo show I have going up in January - So Exciting! \*this is basically an independant class- I have an adviser and a group of 15 other students, we all work on our big culiminating body of work. Mine is a mishmash of etchings, toys, minicomics, artist’s books and drawings. I think the minus was because I didn’t turn in a revised artist’s statement at my crit. \*\*really wasn’t expecting that, my illness caused me to turn in the final paper with really crappy formatting and poor citation style, but I guess I did pretty well in the presentation earlier in the semester. \*\*\*this was my slacker class this semester, but I did learn a lot of new skills. \*\*\*\* I had no idea what I would get in this class- It was basically a 6- hour a week lecture that consisted of the teacher showing clips from movies, usually around a theme like lighting or mood; and an independant project that related to “the movies” in some way. I dithered around on my project for the first few weeks, but in the end my “Greatest Movie Ever Made Action Playset” (working title) came out nicely. It is a set of interchangeable cutouts based on scenes from Citizen Kane, all hand- drawn, about 30 pieces in all, with a nice display box. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/49 "2006-12-22T00:07:43Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] I doubt that any of my classes will have finished the grading by then. [/QUOTE] I was wrong. First grade received: Cultural Geography- A ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/50 "2006-12-22T01:11:28Z")
I went on medical leave halfway through the semester due to what is now being called atypical rapid cycling bipolar depression type II. Yeah, fun. Medication is now working and I’m a lot better, but am not returning to school until next year. I’ll take some classes at a nearby school and live at home next semester, and hopefully have a job, too. ---
**Author:** ![baronsabato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@baronsabato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baronsabato)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668/51 "2006-12-22T02:31:42Z")
Teaching College Biology (a TA position for a lower-division bio course): A+ Neurobiology: A+ Human Physiology: B, which is pretty good considering it has a really high failure rate. Biostatistics: B, which is also pretty good considering I didn’t really care about it at all. Biostatistics Lab: A All-in-all, it wasn’t a _bad_ quarter, especially for my last quarter. Since I decided I wanted to go out with a bang, I took far more classes than recommended, especially for a biology major. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-dopers-howd-you-do-this-semester/384668.md?page=2)