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Old 12-11-2009, 11:53 PM
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I got home at 4:50 and realized I hadn't done an extra credit assignment due at 5:00 ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu

But I did it in like twenty minutes and my teacher was nice and accepted it.
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Old 12-14-2009, 01:18 PM
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Four-hour ball-shattering torts exam starts in 40 minutes :freakout:
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Old 12-14-2009, 01:40 PM
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Old 12-14-2009, 01:45 PM
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Old 12-14-2009, 06:44 PM
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weeeeellp...that was p. much the most humblingly ass-kicking graded exam I've ever sat through. I've got a bad feeling about that one. But no time for sorrow, civil procedure on Friday, onward and upward :sisyphus:
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:darn: Ah well, kick back for this next one.
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Old 12-15-2009, 05:12 AM
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CMOS inverters in lab tomorrow.
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Old 12-16-2009, 07:59 PM
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Well, I'm done for the semester.

And all it took was three all-nighters to finish my three papers on their respective due dates.

And I was surprised to receive an A and A- on the two papers I've gotten back... Looks like I might be getting all A's this semester, amazingly.
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Old 12-16-2009, 09:55 PM
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A/A for my bullshit classes, A/A- for my real classes.
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Old 12-18-2009, 05:10 AM
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One more to go. Civil procedure tomorrow afternoon. I am not too worried about this one, and I just finished re-re-tooling my outline and now I am pretty much a badass personal jurisdiction machine. International Shoe? Shit yeah. Asahi? Fuck. Yes. Burger King? Bet your asshole. Worldwide Volkswagen? Like a motherfucker.

Pennoyer? No.
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Old 12-18-2009, 06:38 AM
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Yikes ... took 4 hours to do my 2 hour lab today and still couldn't quite get it working. Oh well, at least during times I was waiting for the TA to be available, I was able to work on the homework which was due during my afternoon class.

Also, week 3 (of 10) is now done, and I'm off school for the Xmas break. Classes resume on Jan 4th.
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Old 12-18-2009, 05:09 PM
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I finished this quarter earlier in the week, and even though one of my final papers was two days late, he gave me a good grade on it anyway. And I passed one of my MA exams and got a high pass on the French reading exam, so it's only one more exam next quarter, and I get my MA. :woohoo:
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Final scores, BABAA! That is to say ABABA! So I still have a 3.75 GPA :w00t:
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Old 12-18-2009, 05:25 PM
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Congrats, meep! And go git 'er, Dancing Queen!
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Old 12-18-2009, 11:02 PM
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Old 12-19-2009, 12:56 AM
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I take it your retooled outline did the trick, then?
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Old 12-19-2009, 01:17 AM
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I is done with school. :yup:
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Old 12-19-2009, 03:56 AM
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Sat down with an adviser and talked about just what in the hell I'm doing up here. Nothing specific set out yet, 'cause I'm just going part-time right now which really slows things down, but it looks like I'll be changing my major to Physics or the more general physical sciences program, still aiming at teaching when all is said and done. I'll probably keep an English minor. It seems that science teachers are in high demand these days, and I'm pretty sure at this point that I'll enjoy it more than teaching English.

I survived this semester, brought my GPA back up a bit from the debacle I had last year. Things are looking up.
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Old 12-20-2009, 08:55 PM
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Old 12-24-2009, 06:34 AM
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I was really sweating my corporate finance class this quarter - I got the homework OK, but on the midterm I scored exactly the mean. :deepsigh: So I reluctantly resigned myself to just passing and getting through.

The class still had the project and final to go, though. Project was to evaluate a recent IPO, arrive at a proper stock valuation, and make a buy / no buy recommendation to a board of investors. The final exam was three pages of questions, all about the role of debt in valuation, M&A (mergers and acquisitions), and warrants/convertibles. No calculations, more of a defend/attack/defend exercise where you had to pick a position and articulate it against a rising tide of objections and new conditions.

So while I was home in Virginia with family last week, I got an unexpected email from the professor. "Way to go!"

"What?" I asked. "Final exam and project? How did I do?"

"98/100 & 43/43. Highest scores on each."

So only two classes to go before graduation; International Business Ethics and Capstone / Business Strategy. Current GPA is 3.955.

Today I received an email from my academic advisor. I've been invited to apply to Alpha Sigma Nu - the Honor Society of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. :woohoo:
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Nice work Sauron. I don't understand US GPAs. Ours go up to seven and yours go up to...?

I'm sitting here with 4000 words to write about different aspects of haemotology by Monday. And my brain is frozen. I just can't do it. I have so many terms floating around my head I can't keep them straight.
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Ours go up to 4?

It's been a while since I've had to worry about GPAs.
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I never worried about them. :nope:
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A (90-100%) = 4
B (80-90%) = 3
C (70-80%) = 2
D (60-70%) = 1
F (<60%) = 0

For each course grade a number is assigned, and the average of the courses yields the GPA.

Unless you are on the plus/minus system, then all hell breaks loose and the A students become handicapped.
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Advice for students pursuing graduate degrees in the humanities. Just Don't Go

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Most undergraduates don't realize that there is a shrinking percentage of positions in the humanities that offer job security, benefits, and a livable salary (though it is generally much lower than salaries in other fields requiring as many years of training). They don't know that you probably will have to accept living almost anywhere, and that you must also go through a six-year probationary period at the end of which you may be fired for any number of reasons and find yourself exiled from the profession. They seem to think becoming a humanities professor is a reliable prospect — a more responsible and secure choice than, say, attempting to make it as a freelance writer, or an actor, or a professional athlete — and, as a result, they don't make any fallback plans until it is too late.

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What almost no prospective graduate students can understand is the extent to which doctoral education in the humanities socializes idealistic, naïve, and psychologically vulnerable people into a profession with a very clear set of values. It teaches them that life outside of academe means failure, which explains the large numbers of graduates who labor for decades as adjuncts, just so they can stay on the periphery of academe.

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It's hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their idealism and energy — and lack of information — are an exploitable resource. For universities, the impact of graduate programs on the lives of those students is an acceptable externality, like dumping toxins into a river. If you cannot find a tenure-track position, your university will no longer court you; it will pretend you do not exist and will act as if your unemployability is entirely your fault. It will make you feel ashamed, and you will probably just disappear, convinced it's right rather than that the game was rigged from the beginning.
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