(this is copied from my Facebook)
I would only have an A+ left to get before I've "caught 'em all".
I never thought I'd get an A this term in any of my courses, and the cynical side of me thinks it's because I kind of sucked up to my C LIT prof and told her a bit about my academic troubles and also about trying to adjust to this 'arts course'/paper-writing thing. The other side's just happy but not sure how to show it. I want to show that I'm happy, but I don't know how to. Since I turned in my research paper on the day of the final, I emailed my prof about it and she said I got 94% on it (which is, I believe, perfect without it being perfect enough for an A+ -- she doesn't give part marks). Maybe I'm just good at papers. I mean, how else did my 'ethics paper that wasn't really' get 89%?
Aside from my C LIT grade, I won't see any of my remaining marks until I get back from ASKamp next Thursday, which means I'm left to wonder whether arts classes, with their absolute (but subjective) grading and essays are really that much easier for me.
the following is in order:
To be honest, I *am* worried about math and physics:
1. Granted, I couldn't finish one of the questions on the physics exam (didn't know where to go with it), but a number of the other questions seemed perhaps a little too easy.
2. In math, some of the questions involved mathematical series that could be simplified into a short formula; I never really learned these derivations so I brute-force-crunched the series in my calculator. It's also really really easy to make really stupid mistakes in math (that's the way it is with money, I guess).
Allison and I have our own gripes about the philosophy exam - mostly that the short-answer questions were far more specific than the ones asked on the midterm so we weren't quite expecting it.
I didn't even look through my notes before my criminology exam. I did the required reading, though. Still - questions like "$Person's book "$Title" was about _______" when it only got a one-paragraph treatment in a, what, 500-page textbook are aggravating. At least it was multiple-guess. But cumulative. So we were supposed to know the entire 500-page textbook (save one chapter on psych-y stuff).
Some calculation-y and background stuff can be found here. |
