Priorities
My chemistry grade just came in, and thank fucking god I got an A-. I was borderline B+/A-, and if I fucked up on the final exam, I would have gotten a B+. An A- is not great, but at least it is in the A range, and in every chemistry course I have taken at college during the past two years (including this one, it has been six courses), I've gotten an A-, A, or A+ (unfortunately my grades have dropped each term). I just wanted to be able to say, "I'm an A student in chemistry." I guess technically I'm an A student in biology too (an A and A- in first year bio, A in cell bio, and A+ in biochem), but chemistry has been my focus for the past two years. In the fall I'll ask my teacher what I got on the final exam (he said that we were free to see it). I'm curious to know if I got the top mark, again, and how many other students got an A grade in the course, as I was getting the top marks, but they were borderline B+/A-, so I can't imagine people getting a final grade higher than mine.
This semester I regularly studied in the science study room, where the science and math teachers, as well as the dean, had their offices, so that I could ask my teacher questions. So all my teachers knew that I worked hard, and when I was studying the day before the final, the dean, who had seen me numerous times studying, said, "I hope all your hard work pays off." Well, it looks like it did. I totally stopped studying calculus for the past three weeks of school so that I could focus in chemistry, badly failing my last calculus test (12%) in order to keep my chemistry grade up, but it looks like it was a good strategy. It totally paid off not studying calculus!
This semester I regularly studied in the science study room, where the science and math teachers, as well as the dean, had their offices, so that I could ask my teacher questions. So all my teachers knew that I worked hard, and when I was studying the day before the final, the dean, who had seen me numerous times studying, said, "I hope all your hard work pays off." Well, it looks like it did. I totally stopped studying calculus for the past three weeks of school so that I could focus in chemistry, badly failing my last calculus test (12%) in order to keep my chemistry grade up, but it looks like it was a good strategy. It totally paid off not studying calculus!