At the end of last quarter I had finished all of the requirements I needed to graduate from the UW as well as fulfilled all of my Geography major requirements -- my Public Health minor was a lost cause though. However, I decided to stay one more quarter to partake in the capstone GIS (Geographic Information Systems) class, as well as maintain my internship. To be eligible for my internship, I needed to be taking 12 credits. I figured that since it was my last quarter here and I couldn't finish my Public Health minor, I'd take some random classes that I might actually be interested in. So I signed up for CLAS 430: Greek & Roman Mythology, PSE 309: Creativity & Innovation, ARCH 352: History of Modern Architecture, and GEOG 463: the aforementioned GIS capstone class. With no need to get good grades (heck, any grades) in these classes, I thought I would engage in a method I'm calling the "free-balling" method, a term probably used incorrectly. I was to embark on my easiest quarter of college yet to end it off in style.
Somehow, easy got intermixed with lazy. Within two week, I had dropped the ARCH class when my TA e-mailed the class on a Friday with notes for the quiz we would have on Monday -- I had yet to attend a class. I missed the first day of the geography class (the only one I really cared about), but I did make my first creativity class -- probably because it was on Wednesday at 2:30, following my geography class. However, I missed the first day of the mythology class, and continued to miss this 9:30 behemoth. I didn't seriously considering going until the TA e-mailed me on Monday that the midterm would be in one week's time. Even then, I was like, "nyeh," as I figured I could get away with just doing the reading. I procured half of the reading materials on Friday.
By the time of the midterm on Monday, I had attended no class and not done any reading -- just forty minutes of glancing over the lecture slides online the previous night. My apartment-mates had a monetary bet of whether I would get over 20% on the test or not. And of course, I walked into the test fifteen minutes late -- people were already walking out when I showed up. I sat down with SCANTRON in hand, and began the forty question multiple choice test. I left knowing that I got at least four questions correct.
Fast forward three days, and the TA e-mails us saying that the answers were online. I checked them out (more due to the fact that my apartment-mates had money on the results than me actually caring), and was pleasantly surprised when I got eight out of the first thirteen correct. Suddenly hope stirred in my heart -- had I magically pulled off a miracles of miracles and owned a midterm of a 400 level class I had done practically nothing for? I proceeded to get nine of the next ten questions incorrect. By the end, I knew that I answered at least sixteen questions correct (I don't remember what I put down for all my answers). I thought, "crap, I needed 25 questions right to get at least a 0.7." Yeah, I was aiming for a 0.7.
Two days later, and my TA sends out another e-mail: "Sorry, I can't get your grades online, but I have the grade conversions scale up." I opened the website up, and immediately scrolled to the bottom: I needed 16 questions to get a 0.7. Huzzah, I'm off the bubble. I'm a man who sticks with what works for him, and as I'm satisfied with the results I got with the amount of work I put in, I'll hold the strategy for the rest of the quarter. Some may ask if my GPA is going to decrease and I counter, will it matter if my already low GPA gets any lower?
Somehow, easy got intermixed with lazy. Within two week, I had dropped the ARCH class when my TA e-mailed the class on a Friday with notes for the quiz we would have on Monday -- I had yet to attend a class. I missed the first day of the geography class (the only one I really cared about), but I did make my first creativity class -- probably because it was on Wednesday at 2:30, following my geography class. However, I missed the first day of the mythology class, and continued to miss this 9:30 behemoth. I didn't seriously considering going until the TA e-mailed me on Monday that the midterm would be in one week's time. Even then, I was like, "nyeh," as I figured I could get away with just doing the reading. I procured half of the reading materials on Friday.
By the time of the midterm on Monday, I had attended no class and not done any reading -- just forty minutes of glancing over the lecture slides online the previous night. My apartment-mates had a monetary bet of whether I would get over 20% on the test or not. And of course, I walked into the test fifteen minutes late -- people were already walking out when I showed up. I sat down with SCANTRON in hand, and began the forty question multiple choice test. I left knowing that I got at least four questions correct.
Fast forward three days, and the TA e-mails us saying that the answers were online. I checked them out (more due to the fact that my apartment-mates had money on the results than me actually caring), and was pleasantly surprised when I got eight out of the first thirteen correct. Suddenly hope stirred in my heart -- had I magically pulled off a miracles of miracles and owned a midterm of a 400 level class I had done practically nothing for? I proceeded to get nine of the next ten questions incorrect. By the end, I knew that I answered at least sixteen questions correct (I don't remember what I put down for all my answers). I thought, "crap, I needed 25 questions right to get at least a 0.7." Yeah, I was aiming for a 0.7.
Two days later, and my TA sends out another e-mail: "Sorry, I can't get your grades online, but I have the grade conversions scale up." I opened the website up, and immediately scrolled to the bottom: I needed 16 questions to get a 0.7. Huzzah, I'm off the bubble. I'm a man who sticks with what works for him, and as I'm satisfied with the results I got with the amount of work I put in, I'll hold the strategy for the rest of the quarter. Some may ask if my GPA is going to decrease and I counter, will it matter if my already low GPA gets any lower?
so are you not taking 12 credits right now?
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