# So I got an A today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620 "2007-12-19T21:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/21 "2007-12-20T16:27:56Z")
Congrats! I was at two colleges yesterday- the one where I work and the one where I went- and it was grade day at both places. It reminded me so much of the “Gettysburg roster” scene from _Gone With the Wind_ (except it was students checking grades with cellphones rather than from the coded grade postings on the doors from “my day”). ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/22 "2007-12-20T16:34:41Z")
Annnnnnd… just what did we have to do to get all these "A"s? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/23 "2007-12-20T17:21:56Z")
Hard work 😛 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/24 "2007-12-20T20:01:02Z")
I made an A, too! (Mine was in Nursing Care III) Let’s hear it for all the A students! I heard basketweaving got to be too easy so now it is underwater basketweaving. ---
**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 20, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/25 "2007-12-20T21:20:46Z")
Congrats! I join the happy “A” students, having gotten my final grade yesterday for ENGL 611 Studies in Rhetoric: Rhetorics, Ecologies, and Networks. In addition to finishing the semester I have also now officially finished my graduate coursework, and my final GPA is 3.82. Not quite an “A,” but close enough for me! 🙂 All that’s left now is my thesis. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/26 "2007-12-20T21:50:52Z")
Do you get a free hamburger at McD’s? ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/27 "2007-12-20T23:10:16Z")
I got an “A” in my Java I class - basically a 1st semester comp sci class using Java. Since I’ve been programming many years in C/C++ it wasn’t a very difficult class. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/28 "2007-12-20T23:16:48Z")
I got an A too. Mine was rather unexpected, since I B’ed out on my first two exams. I was already telling people that I’d made a B. I must have really turned it around on the paper and the final. Mine was Comparative Animal Physiology, by the way. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Basandre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@Basandre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Basandre)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/29 "2007-12-21T03:50:38Z")
Ooh, ooh, I’m included! I got an A in Cataloging! ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/30 "2007-12-21T12:51:53Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Basketweaving is always held up as the stereotypical no-content waste-of-time course, but I have a suspicion that it actually takes quite a bit of skill. [/QUOTE] I made a few simple baskets in 8th grade. Making a nice basket takes practice, but the basics are pretty easy. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/31 "2007-12-22T17:59:13Z")
[QUOTE=Septima] I don’t know what the equivalent is. It’s a written…thing, that you spend the last semester writing, and then you get a degree. [/QUOTE] Yes, equivalent to senior seminar. I ask because my daughter just finished hers in American History. And got an A on it, too. Must be a good year for History majors. She won’t be graduating yet, though, because she still has requirements to finish for Sociology. Congrats again. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620/32 "2007-12-22T19:10:18Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Basketweaving is always held up as the stereotypical no-content waste-of-time course, but I have a suspicion that it actually takes quite a bit of skill. I always took it as meaning it’s a waste of time because it doesn’t make you more hireable (generally) or move you closer to your degree. Underwater Basketweaving, on the other hand… > [@Septima](#): > > (do geek-out stains wash off?) Yeah, but you have to use the blood of cheerleaders. It’s a little difficult to get the stuff as you get older. Two As and two Bs for me this semester, BTW. I’m a little disappointed with one of my Bs, but the other one is OK–Spanish III was hard. (Relatively speaking.) > [@N9IWP](#): > > I got an “A” in my Java I class - basically a 1st semester comp sci class using Java. Since I’ve been programming many years in C/C++ it wasn’t a very difficult class. I’m trying to learn Python on my own again, so hopefully I have as much luck. I’ve never done much “real programming”, just a little bit of robotics stuff in C++ and a lot of object-oriented scripting in some pretty stripped-down GCSes back in the day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-an-a-today/430620.md?page=1)