Grades in.

[icarus]

Just got my grades.

I completely overloaded myself this semester, but I made it. I think my grades are good enough to get funding for next year. *crosses fingers*

I've moved from an A and A+ average my first two quarters, to an A- this one. Average for the year: 3.86

3.8 -- English Composition
4.0 -- Asian History
3.4* - That horrible Intercultural Communication class
4.0 -- Tutoring

Next year is going to be harder. I have my tougher courses, math in particular.

I've eased in after a 15-year absence from school with my best subjects. I'm not making the mistake of taking such a heavy load again. It cost me. That Intercultural Communication should have been an A, if I'd turned in all the work. And the English Composition grade was hurt by my attendence the last two weeks as I desperately tried to catch up on everything else.

You know. This is still better than I did as a kid. 3.4 was normal for me because of all the work I wouldn't turn in because it wasn't "perfect."

For all that it's been tough this quarter... I love school. :D


*Deserved - I had to choose between not turning in one assignment here or not doing two Asian History assignments. It was no contest.

Comments

[florahart]

Good job. I know you were fretting about perfectionism and grades and so forth. Also, big ol' article in the paper even down here about UW admissions and stuff--ack!

Only UW-associated schools...

I laugh every time I see grades from that neck of the woods. I remember, from when my brother was there, that they actually use a scale up to 4.0, with every 1/10 included. My other brother: WSU. They use (or at least did) A, A-, B+. So do the smaller state schools. Well, Central does, and Eastern I think. I dunno about Evergreen and Western, being right there next to UW. All seven Oregon schools also use letter grades. They just hafta be different, those Washington folks. :D

Course, for you, it would hurt, in this case, if they did, as the 3.4 and the 3.8 would likely translate to B+ and A- and that would be 3.3 and 3.7.

I never took any college math on the way to my lit degree. The irony: the husband actually needed to (and still does; he's never gotten around to finishing his degree mostly due to math requirement!) and just plain doesn't get it at all, and I only didn't because I couldn't be bothered to do a formal placement exam. The online practice one says I'd (still) be fine with whatever the one right before calculus is despite not having actually taken a math class since, uh, 1986, but they require a formal one and pssht, I didn't need it for anything. Heh.

[angeluszion.livejournal.com]

Great job, it's better than my average. ^_^

~NAA

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

Well, really, 3.84 is closer to an A than an A-: 0.14 off an A, 0.17 off an A-.

And you beat me: 3.75. bah. I think I have a cumulative 3.80...? No, 3.79. Darn.

[ragnhildholm.livejournal.com]

congratulations! sorry, i've been offline for a bit... but that's great! now you can kick back and relax for a bit before school starts again ;-)