i like to toot
my own horn. i set the curve
i don't take challenges lightly. if atleast it's a fight i feel is worth my energy.
take for example school. i can instill some pretty heavy emotional abuse towards myself for having not gone to college sooner. but then i try to think positive, of how i can take it more seriously now, than ever i would have when i was younger.
so, when i bought my used Astronomy book this semester, and read the chickenscratched note by its previous owner on the first page of Chapter 1, i couldn't help but feel a tinge of anxiety.
i knew it would be a hard class, for the physics and hard science involved. but jeeze... this is the note "Drop Kim's class in fall '03 he only gave out 3 A's (in all his classes-total 150 students which is down by 50%) and 20 B's- 75 C's & 50 or so F's"
Ok, wow... So I told myself... "I am going to have to be one of 3 A student's"
It's half way through the semester now. I go on Saturdays so the class is pretty small (started with 14, now down to 9). I sit in the front, row, I never say a word. Dr. Kim passes out a sheet with grades for the class occasionally based on homework assignments, and popquizes. These are anonymous for the most part... grades list according to student ID numbers. I've been mostly at the top. There is an assignment missing...but cummulatively, my A's have outranked despite.
Got results from the Midterm this past week. Ranked again... but this time a combination of his 3 classes... only 38 students this semester, academic fear has been instilled by now it seems. He gives everyone the opportunity to retake the same test, to study again, and correct any mistakes.
I am going to have to retake mine. But not because I did poorly(well actually I did, by my standards 67% blows). But because my competitive edge has been challenged in a bad way... He's grading on a curve this time around. And I have set it.
I came out with the highest score of all 3 classes. So as long as I improve by atleast 67% again, I will maintain.. and have the only A... and an ACTUAL A, not just a curved A.
:)
I don't usually brag like this. I just forget sometimes of what I'm capable, so I have to remind myself... incessantly.
i don't take challenges lightly. if atleast it's a fight i feel is worth my energy.
take for example school. i can instill some pretty heavy emotional abuse towards myself for having not gone to college sooner. but then i try to think positive, of how i can take it more seriously now, than ever i would have when i was younger.
so, when i bought my used Astronomy book this semester, and read the chickenscratched note by its previous owner on the first page of Chapter 1, i couldn't help but feel a tinge of anxiety.
i knew it would be a hard class, for the physics and hard science involved. but jeeze... this is the note "Drop Kim's class in fall '03 he only gave out 3 A's (in all his classes-total 150 students which is down by 50%) and 20 B's- 75 C's & 50 or so F's"
Ok, wow... So I told myself... "I am going to have to be one of 3 A student's"
It's half way through the semester now. I go on Saturdays so the class is pretty small (started with 14, now down to 9). I sit in the front, row, I never say a word. Dr. Kim passes out a sheet with grades for the class occasionally based on homework assignments, and popquizes. These are anonymous for the most part... grades list according to student ID numbers. I've been mostly at the top. There is an assignment missing...but cummulatively, my A's have outranked despite.
Got results from the Midterm this past week. Ranked again... but this time a combination of his 3 classes... only 38 students this semester, academic fear has been instilled by now it seems. He gives everyone the opportunity to retake the same test, to study again, and correct any mistakes.
I am going to have to retake mine. But not because I did poorly(well actually I did, by my standards 67% blows). But because my competitive edge has been challenged in a bad way... He's grading on a curve this time around. And I have set it.
I came out with the highest score of all 3 classes. So as long as I improve by atleast 67% again, I will maintain.. and have the only A... and an ACTUAL A, not just a curved A.
:)
I don't usually brag like this. I just forget sometimes of what I'm capable, so I have to remind myself... incessantly.