Comments | pemberleya: oh em eff gee!!!

pemberleya

oh em eff gee!!!

Jan 11, 2006 10:40

grades are finally in. now that classes have started. to really get this, you have to understand that i haven't gotten an A in a class in my major since i was 18. i got A's in english classes and history and easy stuff, but i did 6 times that much work for each science and math class and got B's and a healthy crop of C's ( Read more... )

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disembodiment January 11 2006, 16:56:58 UTC

Wow! That is awesome! Congratulations! Good work.

I am scared of what I will get my first semester. I'm setting my work expectations high, but I am not expecting A's, because I know it's really hard to get A's. I haven't been graded in 5 years, either, so it's going to be an adjustment.

pemberleya January 11 2006, 17:53:51 UTC

dude. seriously. i was shooting for, like, i would be happy and it would be awesome if i could just get a nice solid B run. i'm not going to be over this for about a week. the thing you're going to have working in your favor, as long as you're willing to be cool with B's and the occasional C, you're in business. at our school (and i can't fathom it would be much different at MD) the median grade is set to 85%, and then most people will fall nearby and 70% of the class gets B's. on the low side, there's a larger C margin than there is for D's and F's, so you have to be like, doing worse than 90% of ppl in the class to get a D or F. really, it's not hard (unless you have serious test-taking issues) to set yourself above like 10-15% of your classmates ( ... )

disembodiment January 11 2006, 20:12:31 UTC

I will be happy with B's, too. I hope the curve is the same at UMD; because it sounds like something I could live with. I am not going to be one of those people in law school who was a straight A student and then cries when they don't get straight A's in law school.

I don't have any real test taking issues, but I'm not sure how well I'll deal with the whole class being determined by one test. That seems kind of rough. Since I was a philosophy major, I wrote papers during all of undergrad. I don't think I took any tests.

This is all really encouraging because I am still pretty scared of starting in the fall. It doesn't quite seem real to me yet.

pythonmont January 11 2006, 21:16:20 UTC

That officially deserves a "w00t." Not "wOOt" or "woot," but the alpha-numeric "w00t."

And, speaking as a former TA, there should be more students like you that don't piss and moan about getting a B here and there. Makes you a more well-rounded person anyway.

afoundobject January 11 2006, 21:19:52 UTC

yay! you are a superGenius!!!

:)

fightmediocrity January 11 2006, 23:34:19 UTC

Abby is therefore, and I quote, "super-duper coolerific."

That is awesome. I know you sweated about the whole post-grad thing, and I knew, I KNEW you'd be fine, 'stead of layin' around smoking you some opium.

Hee. I'm tripping on the new Tylenol cough syrup. Mmm. Minty.