They're Coming...
Exams, they're coming, coming to get me.
Lets see what I have:
1.First thing's first, finish up the programming lab assignment that was due Wednesday night ^.^
2.Monday - Civilization 1 Exam (8:30pm-10:30pm)
3.Wednesday - Calculus 2 Exam (10:30am - 12:30pm)
4.Thursday - Physics 1 Death...I mean Exam (10:30am-12:30pm)
5.Friday - a joke, I mean my Research Sources and Systems Exam (10:30am-12:30pm)
I haven't yet added my Algorithms and Data Structures exam to that list since I don't know if I should take it or not. He said we can take our average test score and use that instead of taking the exam, which mine is like an 85 or 86 so I'm debating whether I think I can get higher on the exam, not likely.
As far as my grades go, assuming that my exams don't either bring up my grades or bring them down, here is where I stand, unfortunately:
Civilization 1 - B
Calculus 2 - B
Physics 1 - D
Algorithms and Data Structures - B
Physics 1 Lab - A
Research Sources and Systems - A
If I calculated that correctly its 2.647
That sucks. I know people are thinking to themselves, "man, you shouldn't complain, thats better than my overall GPA." But honestly, thats pretty terrible since I'm almost positive that I know the material for all of these classes, save physics, better than 90+ percent of the people in them. Not to mention, if I keep that up, I'll be having a good time at BCC, cuz if I lose even one of my scholarships I'm done, I can't afford it as it is, but at least my loans aren't so big that I can't pay them off in a few years after school if I get a decent job. But, for example, if I drop below a 3.0, I lose $10,000 a year, thats a freakin' lot of money to get loans for, I don't even know if I can get loans for that much? T.T
Amazingly, all of my Bs and my D are 3 or 4 credits each, and my two As, well, those are a measly 1 credit. Yay for stupidity. I'm hoping for some mad curvature of the grades but its highly unlikely, I honestly don't know how I sucked this bad at the last second. Although I've had the D in physics all semester long, I had all of those Bs as As until last week when I took some exams that I somehow sucked royally at. My grade in Civ 1 is highly dependant on my essay grade too which I should get back from the professor tomorrow sometime, and I'm expecting it to either make my grade the B that I projected above or a C even, it kinda depends on how poorly I did, but I'm not expecting too much.
Honestly, I hate this semester as far as school is concerned. In general life is great, but school is being a total jerk to me right now. None of my classes were all that fun to go to, I had trouble waking up for 8am class, I didn't study for the first few tests that I got As on in my classes but when I studied hard for the last few tests, I got low Cs and high Ds on them. WTF. That makes no sense. How is it that I do worse if I study?
Basically, the point is that I'm going to have to do EXTREMELY well on ALL of my exams if I want to stay in school for more than one more semester, and if I do extra bad on my exams, I won't even be able to come back for next semester.
Anyway, I'm going to go start laundry that I was supposed to do yesterday so my work shirt will be clean for tonight. Oh, did I mention I ran out of money on my meal plan for this semester, so now I have to start buying food out of my bank account instead of off my student loans. Fun.
Lets see what I have:
1.First thing's first, finish up the programming lab assignment that was due Wednesday night ^.^
2.Monday - Civilization 1 Exam (8:30pm-10:30pm)
3.Wednesday - Calculus 2 Exam (10:30am - 12:30pm)
4.Thursday - Physics 1 Death...I mean Exam (10:30am-12:30pm)
5.Friday - a joke, I mean my Research Sources and Systems Exam (10:30am-12:30pm)
I haven't yet added my Algorithms and Data Structures exam to that list since I don't know if I should take it or not. He said we can take our average test score and use that instead of taking the exam, which mine is like an 85 or 86 so I'm debating whether I think I can get higher on the exam, not likely.
As far as my grades go, assuming that my exams don't either bring up my grades or bring them down, here is where I stand, unfortunately:
Civilization 1 - B
Calculus 2 - B
Physics 1 - D
Algorithms and Data Structures - B
Physics 1 Lab - A
Research Sources and Systems - A
If I calculated that correctly its 2.647
That sucks. I know people are thinking to themselves, "man, you shouldn't complain, thats better than my overall GPA." But honestly, thats pretty terrible since I'm almost positive that I know the material for all of these classes, save physics, better than 90+ percent of the people in them. Not to mention, if I keep that up, I'll be having a good time at BCC, cuz if I lose even one of my scholarships I'm done, I can't afford it as it is, but at least my loans aren't so big that I can't pay them off in a few years after school if I get a decent job. But, for example, if I drop below a 3.0, I lose $10,000 a year, thats a freakin' lot of money to get loans for, I don't even know if I can get loans for that much? T.T
Amazingly, all of my Bs and my D are 3 or 4 credits each, and my two As, well, those are a measly 1 credit. Yay for stupidity. I'm hoping for some mad curvature of the grades but its highly unlikely, I honestly don't know how I sucked this bad at the last second. Although I've had the D in physics all semester long, I had all of those Bs as As until last week when I took some exams that I somehow sucked royally at. My grade in Civ 1 is highly dependant on my essay grade too which I should get back from the professor tomorrow sometime, and I'm expecting it to either make my grade the B that I projected above or a C even, it kinda depends on how poorly I did, but I'm not expecting too much.
Honestly, I hate this semester as far as school is concerned. In general life is great, but school is being a total jerk to me right now. None of my classes were all that fun to go to, I had trouble waking up for 8am class, I didn't study for the first few tests that I got As on in my classes but when I studied hard for the last few tests, I got low Cs and high Ds on them. WTF. That makes no sense. How is it that I do worse if I study?
Basically, the point is that I'm going to have to do EXTREMELY well on ALL of my exams if I want to stay in school for more than one more semester, and if I do extra bad on my exams, I won't even be able to come back for next semester.
Anyway, I'm going to go start laundry that I was supposed to do yesterday so my work shirt will be clean for tonight. Oh, did I mention I ran out of money on my meal plan for this semester, so now I have to start buying food out of my bank account instead of off my student loans. Fun.