Conversation at my house; fuzzy yellow things

[cjsmith]

Me: Biology grades are posted!
Rob: And?
Me: I'm not the highest grade in the class. I'm down a third of a percentage point from someone in the afternoon lab section.
Rob: You suck.

[LJ-CUT TEXT="grades stuff"]
I'm ticked at myself for not getting 100% on that exam, given that I knew the material very very well thank you, but dangit I bet I can pull ahead of that other student muah hah hah. ;-)

In all seriousness, I'm very pleased. I'm thrilled. And I'm LOVING bio class AND bio lab.

Chem: 86%. I am annoyed, because I should have been able to do those problems, but apparently the average was sixty, and I learned that she does grade on a curve applied at the end of the semester on total points earned. Depending on how many drop the class in the next few weeks, I may or may not be on track for an A in there too, but I'm not an A on my own merit. Not yet, anyway.[/LJ-CUT]

Physics exam tomorrow. And physics lab. And bio lab. I want a nap.

Hey! Bio lab yesterday gave me a name and a concept to go with those weird little yellow fuzzy worm-shaped things that fall in the hot tub all the time. Those are MALE pine cones. Who'd'a thunk it?

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Yay, good grades!

"On your own merit" is sort of an odd phrase for it, given that the class as a whole ought to have enough of its own merit to get more than an average of 60!

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

Ummm, this is DeAnza we're talking about.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I suspect the range is enormous. No one got above a 91, but I overheard that somebody was in the twenties.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

True. It's not like the material on the test was unrelated to what we've been doing in homework two hours a night since the beginning of the quarter. We all should have been able to do pretty well. On the other hand, I lost a couple of questions by running out of time, and time is always something that can skew the results of the group as a whole.

Eh well. I'm not dead yet. (But still not king.) :-)