GPA woes
So, it looks like this term's grades are going to be the worst since I started this process, mostly thanks to my jazz class. Some of that is my fault, some of it I can blame on the prof.
Utterly failing the last quiz was my fault--I wasn't in class pretty much all of the previous week and a half, and I blanked out on what I'd studied. Getting a shitty grade on the quiz prior to that I can blame on the prof. The quiz was three pages long. I only completed two pages of it because the quiz was printed front (no back) on page 1 and front and back on page 2. As there was nothing printed on the back of page 1, I had no reason to check the back page of the quiz to see if there was anything there. So, even though I did well on the rest of the quiz, I missed a third of the questions, which knocked my score down to a 64. He throws out the lowest quiz, but that's going to end up being this last one instead of that one. So, assuming I study my ass off for the final (half of the grade) I miiiight pull a C. Bleh.
I'm doing ok in my other three classes. I haven't been to my psych class at all and I still managed a 90 on the last quiz there (Scantrons, how I love thee.) So I should manage at least a B out of that. I haven't been performing up to my personal standards in my features class, but I'm running about on a B/B+ level there. So my GPA really kind of hinges on what grade I get for the SMFH. I think there should be no problem with that, since I'm going above and beyond what's usually expected from the position.
Still, I'll be lucky to pull a 3.0 for the term, which is kind of depressing. It won't drag down my overall GPA too much. I've done well enough the last four terms that I'm sitting at a 3.48, and even if I got the worst-case scenario grades, I'd still be at least at 3.3. And the GPA for my j classes is certainly high enough--it's close to 3.7 so far. The major does require 15 credits in another concentration, though, so I'm not sure how they're going to figure that. I suppose they may just take some of the credits for my psych minor and figure it that way. Which would kind of suck, because those grades aren't great. They only require a minimum 2.5 in all classes for the major, and I'd probably at least end up with a 3.3, but I wish it were higher.
I shouldn't complain, I guess. Unless I completely fuck up my last term, I'll still have a higher overall GPA (probably about a 3.4) than the one I graduated with last time (a 2.93.) And it's not like I'm going for any honors or anything (I can't; post-bacs don't qualify.) The only thing that GPA would matter for is if I decided to apply to grad school later, and after this exhausting experience, I don't see myself doing that for a looong time, if at all. I've kind of been a perpetual student since I was in diapers, so it's time to actually apply that knowledge instead of gathering more of it.
Utterly failing the last quiz was my fault--I wasn't in class pretty much all of the previous week and a half, and I blanked out on what I'd studied. Getting a shitty grade on the quiz prior to that I can blame on the prof. The quiz was three pages long. I only completed two pages of it because the quiz was printed front (no back) on page 1 and front and back on page 2. As there was nothing printed on the back of page 1, I had no reason to check the back page of the quiz to see if there was anything there. So, even though I did well on the rest of the quiz, I missed a third of the questions, which knocked my score down to a 64. He throws out the lowest quiz, but that's going to end up being this last one instead of that one. So, assuming I study my ass off for the final (half of the grade) I miiiight pull a C. Bleh.
I'm doing ok in my other three classes. I haven't been to my psych class at all and I still managed a 90 on the last quiz there (Scantrons, how I love thee.) So I should manage at least a B out of that. I haven't been performing up to my personal standards in my features class, but I'm running about on a B/B+ level there. So my GPA really kind of hinges on what grade I get for the SMFH. I think there should be no problem with that, since I'm going above and beyond what's usually expected from the position.
Still, I'll be lucky to pull a 3.0 for the term, which is kind of depressing. It won't drag down my overall GPA too much. I've done well enough the last four terms that I'm sitting at a 3.48, and even if I got the worst-case scenario grades, I'd still be at least at 3.3. And the GPA for my j classes is certainly high enough--it's close to 3.7 so far. The major does require 15 credits in another concentration, though, so I'm not sure how they're going to figure that. I suppose they may just take some of the credits for my psych minor and figure it that way. Which would kind of suck, because those grades aren't great. They only require a minimum 2.5 in all classes for the major, and I'd probably at least end up with a 3.3, but I wish it were higher.
I shouldn't complain, I guess. Unless I completely fuck up my last term, I'll still have a higher overall GPA (probably about a 3.4) than the one I graduated with last time (a 2.93.) And it's not like I'm going for any honors or anything (I can't; post-bacs don't qualify.) The only thing that GPA would matter for is if I decided to apply to grad school later, and after this exhausting experience, I don't see myself doing that for a looong time, if at all. I've kind of been a perpetual student since I was in diapers, so it's time to actually apply that knowledge instead of gathering more of it.