Official grades: A- across the board.
Adequately excellent, as usual. I’ll have to try harder next quarter.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
My final grade was posted today: A- ! Yay! 
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.
(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.
I was wrong.
First grade received: Cultural Geography- A
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.
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.