After a tough semester with a rathertumultuos end, I’m done with my Junior year. I’m back in good old northern Virginia and just e-mail my Stability and Control professor the last of my take-home finals (I guess it took the “take-home” aspect a bit literally.)
The university was very nice about helping all the students get through this semester. We all had the option of getting graded on just the work we’d submitted prior to the 16th, submitting all of the rest of the work or anything in between. Most professors have fixed students grades as they were on the 16th as a minimum so that your grade couldn’t go down from there, only up. I have to say, while it was nice to have that safety net, it made it pretty hard to get motivated for the final week or two, knowing that if I just did nothing, I’d still get at least a 3.0 GPA for the semester.
I’d like to thank all the Dopers who were so supportive of me in the thread I linked to above. Being able to post here about what was happening around me really helped me sort out how I was feeling and how I should react. I greatly appreciate all of the prayers and thoughts I got from the people in that thread. Thank you all.