Kevin's Watch

Before I start my externship (all 160 hours of it, unpaid), figure out what to do with my son during the day ($1,000 a month for day care say whaaaat), and figure out all the extra stuff I have to do before I GRADUATE! WITH A DEGREE! Maybe even magna cum laude, though I don't think the particular college I go to makes such distinctions.

Even though it's a bit early, I can safely say, in this is instance: I am awesome.

Now, if only that $30,000 worth of student loans would just disappear....

Congrats for getting this far, Jaz! The rest of it is just details.

Good job. I got Magna Cum Laude, though I thought maybe I'd get something better with a 3.8 GPA. I made, like, one C in Race & Ethnicities, though. But eh. I liked the class and the professor, so no bad feelings!

Uh, yeah...as long as you pass, so what? Unless you all put more significance on it...my paper doesn't have my mark, just the fact that I have the degree. We used to joke that 1% more than the passing grade meant you were working too hard.

(But congrats JazFusion. )

--A

I share Av's sentiment about these things. Nevertheless, JazFusion, you certainly have the right to feel pride in yourself after all the effort (and money) you've put into your studies. Congratulations!

Congrats, Jaz. I'm just in my second semester... though a junior, strangely enough. I just got Dean's List and Chancellor's List certificates in the mail today. They worth keeping? A couple classes might challenge my 4.0 this semester.

I dropped one class, Early American Lit. The instructor was crazy. Smart, but out there. Like a cross between Morgan Freeman and Wanda Sykes. Would've saved myself some heartache by paying attention to her rating on ratemyprofessor. Got the third and final revision of my paper back, and it was a C+/B- . If the things she'd marked had made any sense (or in some cases wouldn't have been patently wrong) I would've stuck with it, but the final was coming up, and I just had no faith that I wouldn't lose mass points in the essays with no way of knowing the grade before the drop date. Just too much damn work for the reward, and I got 5 other classes to worry about.

But it's spring break, woo hoo! Going to Savannah next weekend.