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Grade report blues
Feb. 8th, 2005 09:47 pmLowell House, on the Feast of St. Jerome Emiliani
I was in a horrible mood earlier in the evening because I just saw my fall semester grades online, and no, I didn't manage an A in physics. It's stupid because I still got an A-, but I emailed the professor's assistant for my final exam grade, and it was clear that the final was solely responsible for pulling me down from an A. I think it bothers me even more than chemistry because at least in chemistry, I was doing consistently badly all semester and had at least a smidgeon of improvement towards the end (in relation to the average, anyway). But in physics, I had a chance to do well and get an A, but I didn't. I mentally calculated my GPA while walking home from lab, and it hasn't improved or declined. (How much is an A- on the 4.0 scale anyway? 3.5?) Really, it's stupid of me to be so upset about it, but I think I've become much more insecure about myself ever since freshman spring and more easily frazzled. It didn't help that the dining hall was crowded and noisy when I got there to eat dinner afterwards. >_< I hate eating alone at a table full of animated conversation.
So instead of doing homework--which in some ways would be the logical reaction to an unsatisfactory grade report--I sat around listening to FSTs and putting the final touches on the Haji/Shinwoo FST. (I've decided to keep it at twelve songs. I'm wondering whether to translate the lyrics or not--if I don't bother, then I'll be all ready to post it tomorrow.) Am in a better mood, although now I still have two sections of biology to read and a physics problem set to start.
Apparently, U.S. bishops require that you eat only one full meal throughout the day for the Ash Wednesday fast. That's much more rigid than the Korean diocese interpretation, which allow two. On the other hand, the U.S. dioceses allow breakfasts, if they're "light" and require either lunch or dinner to be skipped, while the meal we usually skip in my family is breakfast, which at least in my family is a relatively extravagant meal. (At least, it was, before my father went on his low cholesterol diet.)
Hm, I had a point to this update other than moaning and whining about school...I really ought to sleep.
Yours &c.
I was in a horrible mood earlier in the evening because I just saw my fall semester grades online, and no, I didn't manage an A in physics. It's stupid because I still got an A-, but I emailed the professor's assistant for my final exam grade, and it was clear that the final was solely responsible for pulling me down from an A. I think it bothers me even more than chemistry because at least in chemistry, I was doing consistently badly all semester and had at least a smidgeon of improvement towards the end (in relation to the average, anyway). But in physics, I had a chance to do well and get an A, but I didn't. I mentally calculated my GPA while walking home from lab, and it hasn't improved or declined. (How much is an A- on the 4.0 scale anyway? 3.5?) Really, it's stupid of me to be so upset about it, but I think I've become much more insecure about myself ever since freshman spring and more easily frazzled. It didn't help that the dining hall was crowded and noisy when I got there to eat dinner afterwards. >_< I hate eating alone at a table full of animated conversation.
So instead of doing homework--which in some ways would be the logical reaction to an unsatisfactory grade report--I sat around listening to FSTs and putting the final touches on the Haji/Shinwoo FST. (I've decided to keep it at twelve songs. I'm wondering whether to translate the lyrics or not--if I don't bother, then I'll be all ready to post it tomorrow.) Am in a better mood, although now I still have two sections of biology to read and a physics problem set to start.
Apparently, U.S. bishops require that you eat only one full meal throughout the day for the Ash Wednesday fast. That's much more rigid than the Korean diocese interpretation, which allow two. On the other hand, the U.S. dioceses allow breakfasts, if they're "light" and require either lunch or dinner to be skipped, while the meal we usually skip in my family is breakfast, which at least in my family is a relatively extravagant meal. (At least, it was, before my father went on his low cholesterol diet.)
Hm, I had a point to this update other than moaning and whining about school...I really ought to sleep.
Yours &c.
