Near the End: Round-Up 2

Do not fear for I have not forgotten. Alright so just about everything with last semester has finally come and gone. I believe that this one was going to be about grades. As we know we had a period this year in which we were going to put our feet in the water in an effort to be quite closed about things close to home and with grades. Needless to say, I found this quite pointless and worthless. Although grades are not meant to be competitive (too bad programs are quite competitive and will uphold stiff GPA requirements for applicants), in the normal and personal life, I do not see why we need to maintain an element of concealment. Not to attack those that do, but I just find it a waste of the limited amount of life energy that we have been given, you know? Probably not.

At the end of last semester I was at an 3.83 GPA. At the end of this semester I am now at a 3.759. It is shocked to know that even though people make above average grades that the GPA still lowers as punishment. It is a difficult thing to explain when you tell people that you have a 3 point something on the 4 point oh grading scale for anything below a 4.0 is looked upon as bad. Just think about it, an A is a 4.0 but a B is a 3.0. Once one gets their first B there is no way to get back to 4.0. Sure you can get a 3.9 but that is with extreme diligence and effort.

But in my case, with 11 credits, I earned an A in Chinese, an A in Introductory Chemistry Laboratory 2, a B in Bioinformatics, and a B in Organic Chemistry 1. Next semester I aim to get an A in all of my five classes, but most likely that will not be the case. For next semester I am taking Organic Chemistry 2, Introduction to Computer Programming (Java), Applications of Statistics, Math Structures, and Physics. This comes to a total of 18 credits, which is quite a bunch to take. I hope to be able to manage all of these classes and score A's. With all but one worth 3 credits, a B will really hurt.

That is just about it for grades, the next one will probably deal with people and activities, and the last one will deal with the future plans, or as we called it in Bioinformatics, "Coming Attractions."



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The Beginning of the End (1)

Well today was the final day of lecture for Introduction to Chemistry Lab 102. Because of a bit of fated purpose of trying to get all 100's on every class period and attaining at least a 95 in each lab, I can say that I did not attend today's class. And currently, I doubt that I am also going to go to the final Lab Class on this upcoming Monday. It seems that it would be a bit futile knowing that what we do in lab wont really be on the test in that capacity. Sure there will be questions about it, but all of that can be gleamed from just reading the lab instructions and attempting to recognize what is happening before we take the test.

This reminds me that we have only about a few more mere weeks left in class for this semester. This will mark the end of my second year at Virginia Commonwealth University. The beginning of the end of the college career is starting to come to a close. On the four year plan aspect, this marks the crossing of the halfway point and the sprint downwards to the bottom.

I have had a great time in my first part of college and I can say that this will hopefully continue as I go further along.


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