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

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it's an A by comparison. I'd like to understand, say, more than 95% of the material. (Of course, as you say, a test can be arbitrarily difficult.)

Part of my anxiety over this is that I am simultaneously grade-grubbing and desperate for a good foundation in this. I'm going on to o-chem and biochem, cellular respiration and drug formulation, and I neeeeeeeed to know chem. Yet I don't feel I can afford to make the mistakes that might let me learn.