I haven’t got any results back. The profs haven’t had time to mark the exams and papers yet.
Anyway, I’m not even going to try to estimate them; between the paper that was due last Tuesday, two final exams on Thursday and one on Saturday, and then one more today (last one–hooray!), I’m sure I could have done better if things had been scheduled more realistically. But all within one week? Argh!
I got an A in Spanish translation, and I’m still waiting on my grade in Computer Assisted Translation, otherwise known as The Incredibly Crappy Class with the Teacher With No Idea How to Teach This Subject and who Set Ridiculous Assignments that were Incredibly Complex and had Nothing to Do with the Goals of the Course and which I Can’t Believe I Missed the Evaluations For because I Had some Choice Words for Him, Let Me Tell You.
I’m in graduate school, working on a master’s in English. Got an A in Victorian lit; still waiting to hear about post-modern colonialism. One semester down, three to go. Oh, and a summer seminar.
Still taking the finals. Argh. I’m about halfway done, but I think it’s telling that I’m really looking forward to when I can go home and get all my wisdom teeth pulled.
My guess is that I’m gonna end up with a mix of A’s and B’s. I let things slip towards the end of the semester… I pretty much had straight A’s at midterms.
I started going back to school this semester. It’s been a while so I took a math class and nothing else. I got a B which isn’t great but not bad either. The cool thing is that A) I figured out how much I need to study and B) I learned early morning classes DO NOT work for me.
Another cool thing is that my grades on tests trended up, the early tests were Cs and the later tests were Bs, then As.
I am taking another math class next semster, pre-calc* something or other, I should do better.
Slee
*The last time I was in school I was still drinking. I mamnaged to get through calc but I am retaking the earlier classes because a) I didn’t retain much, it is hard to retain info when you are either drunk or hungover all the time and b) I decided that I want a really good grounding in math since I will be taking tons of it. I’ll be in calculus again in the summer. Being clean and sober is making this *way * easier.
Senior design: A- (though my team placed 1st in the competition)
Mechanical design: awaiting final grade
Internal combustion engines: C (judging by what I’ve heard, this is above class average)
Automatic controls: awaiting final grade
I’m graduating tomorrow, with no honors at all. (Saved me $20 on the sash, anyway.)
Booyah! I pulled out an A- in cardiovascular physiology. My last two exams were a 95, and a 78 (alas, that 78 was the one that counted more.) Though I really shouldn’t be complaing about an A- in that course, since it was bitch-ass hard. It’s a shame my school uses grade modifiers, cause otherwise I’d have a perfect 4.0, but since it does, and an A- is only a 3.67, I only wound up with 3.86. Still in the ‘A’ range, and nothing to sneeze at, but it looks like I’ll never have that elusive 4.0 (well, I suppose I could have a different semester with a 4.0, but my cumalative GPA will never be a 4.0.)
Yeah, me too, except I failed to realize just how crazy and unsalvagable things were for me until the first week of December. This whole working the graveyard shift all week, then going to school for half the day thing is much more difficult on my nearly-37-year-old body than it was on my 29-year-old body. For this–and for other reasons–I’ll be taking a medical leave of absence next semester, and big changes will be made before I return in Fall '07.
And yay for you for realizing that you needed a break. Better that than to risk getting F’s, y’know?
I went back to school this semester to get teacher certification in k-12 vocal music.
Classes: Elementary Music Methods, Choral Arranging, Choral Conducting, Intro to Learners, Intro to Teaching, Intro to Schools.
Straight As. Hopefully I can keep that up. I didn’t realize how hard it would be to go to school while maintaining five jobs and a house. Not to mention having a wife who occasionally enjoys spending time with me.
I think I speak for everyone when I say we are very happy to see you doing well in school. I have no idea what you’re going to do with the degree, but if you’re taking classes like “Intro to explosives” and “Shockwave theory,” we hope you do very well, indeed!
Don’t know. We have a weird schedule where after break we have another week to study, and the finals starting Janurary 14. Writing up final paper for English right now, which is being rather obstinate.
Oh, I’m not a lit major. Sorry, I probably should have specified that. I do have to take some lit classes, but my program is Professional Writing & Editing.