What were your grades...

[Guest stardust]

My first year of college I had a 3.6 or so. Then I transferred here and it all started going downhill. Honestly, I'm still not sure what my GPA is since my graduation check has two different GPAs on it. My UNT GPA is a 2.651 whereas my GPA including transfer hours is a 2.862. If my overall GPA is the latter, I'm hoping to bring it up to a 3.0 this semester so I can at least graduate with a B average. If not, I'll settle for having it at a 2.75 or so, just as long as I get to walk in five months.

 

And here we're on the straight A, B, C, D, F scale, too--no + or - although it is being considered and I think went into effect for recent new students but not for those of us who have been here for a while. The school I went to first did use the +/- scale and I can definitely say that it helped my GPA more than hurt it since I seem to be one of those on the cusp people who is right there at making the next highest grade but just can't seem to do it.

[Mole 0]

B in Psychology

B in English

B in Human Development (worthless class that means nothing for transfers

A in Government

 

3.25..not too bad for my first semester in college.

That's what I got my first semester of college, and it all went down hill from there.

Really I did terrible my first year of college......and now I'm moving up.

I didn't do well in high school because I was a slacker, so I came into college saying I wasn't going to do that anymore. So I changed my study habits, and did very well.

[lomasmoney 0]

What sucks the most is that I went from having a 3.8-4.0(it always varied) in High School to a 2.49 in College. Damn you OU.

You pretty much have to be a dumbass to get lower than a 3.8 in high school.

 

Well, either a dumbass or a slacker.

yeah ok

[Guest Jimbo]

3.28 GPA-- 2 A's, 4 B's...the grades are good enough considering the situation, but it shoulda been 4 A's and 2 B's....

[bob_barron 0]

I got a B- in online journalism.

 

All of my other classes are full year.

[Mole 0]

I got a B- in online journalism.

 

All of my other classes are full year.

Isn't your major journalism?

[bob_barron 0]

Yea it is.

 

I'm also taking-

Intro to Magazine/Feature writing

Intro to TV Broadcasting

Rise and Fall of Hitler

City Politics in Canada

Canadian History

19th Century Literature.

 

I won't get my grades in those classes until May

[AboveAverage484 0]

A+ in American History I

A- in American Government

B- in Intro to New Testament

B in Social Problems

C+ in Intro to Computers

(always made perfect on hands-on, but when it came to vocabulary and objective answers I sucked it up)

[Mole 0]

Yea it is.

 

I'm also taking-

Intro to Magazine/Feature writing

Intro to TV Broadcasting

Rise and Fall of Hitler

City Politics in Canada

Canadian History

19th Century Literature.

 

I won't get my grades in those classes until May

I'm taking Intro to Broadcasting, which is bascially the same exact class as Mass Media in Society. I don't know why they have two classes just alike, it makes little sense. I wish they had "Movie Directing" or something simular to it.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Yea it is.

 

I'm also taking-

Intro to Magazine/Feature writing

Intro to TV Broadcasting

Rise and Fall of Hitler

City Politics in Canada

Canadian History

19th Century Literature.

 

I won't get my grades in those classes until May

I'm taking Intro to Broadcasting, which is bascially the same exact class as Mass Media in Society. I don't know why they have two classes just alike, it makes little sense. I wish they had "Movie Directing" or something simular to it.

You're really not gonna find anything quite that specific unless you're at a film school. Or someplace really, really big.

 

We've got a couple Cinematography courses, and certainly theater direction, but that's it.

[Mole 0]

Yea it is.

 

I'm also taking-

Intro to Magazine/Feature writing

Intro to TV Broadcasting

Rise and Fall of Hitler

City Politics in Canada

Canadian History

19th Century Literature.

 

I won't get my grades in those classes until May

I'm taking Intro to Broadcasting, which is bascially the same exact class as Mass Media in Society. I don't know why they have two classes just alike, it makes little sense. I wish they had "Movie Directing" or something simular to it.

You're really not gonna find anything quite that specific unless you're at a film school. Or someplace really, really big.

 

We've got a couple Cinematography courses, and certainly theater direction, but that's it.

My school is a big science school, so it doesn't have very many communication classes. Hell, they are only offering 5 Comm classes next semester, so that is very annoying.

 

Some people have told me that film school doesn't really teach you the stuff you'll need in "movie business." It is better to just figure stuff out on your own or read a book about it.

[Mik 0]

I know this won't go over well...

 

Nutrition and Disease: A

Methods in Nutritional Sciences: A-

Teaching Apprenticeship: A

Empirical Research: A

 

3.94

And now the free flights to get whooed by grad schools begins.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

I know this won't go over well...

 

Nutrition and Disease: A

Methods in Nutritional Sciences: A-

Teaching Apprenticeship: A

Empirical Research: A

 

3.94

And now the free flights to get whooed by grad schools begins.

Why wouldn't that go over well? Hell, those either seem like bird courses, if they're even real subjects at all. Teaching Apprenticeship?

 

EDIT: I'm in high school. I have two exams on Friday and two on Monday, for my senior year and I can't fuck it up or I won't get accepted into U of T, which has pretty high standards. Yay.

[Mole 0]

I know this won't go over well...

 

Nutrition and Disease: A

Methods in Nutritional Sciences: A-

Teaching Apprenticeship: A

Empirical Research: A

 

3.94

And now the free flights to get whooed by grad schools begins.

Wow, that's damn good.

 

My ex's boyfriend got a 4.0, but his major is Bio Chem, which means he is one smart guy.

[Mik 0]

I know this won't go over well...

 

Nutrition and Disease: A

Methods in Nutritional Sciences: A-

Teaching Apprenticeship: A

Empirical Research: A

 

3.94

And now the free flights to get whooed by grad schools begins.

Why wouldn't that go over well? Hell, those either seem like bird courses, if they're even real subjects at all. Teaching Apprenticeship?

 

EDIT: I'm in high school. I have two exams on Friday and two on Monday, for my senior year and I can't fuck it up or I won't get accepted into U of T, which has pretty high standards. Yay.

Actually, they are all 400 level courses. Nutrition and Disease was the hardest class I've taken at Cornell. More medical terms than I knew what to do with, with an MD professor who talked over everyone's head.

 

Empirical research was an easy A, but to get it I had to clone a DNA library from tissue mRNA and grow cell lines.

 

Teaching apprenticeship was tough. I taught a class as an undergraduate TA. I had to grade twenty 15 page papers, write exam questions, prepare for and teach a 60 minute section each week, and some other stuff.

 

And Mole, I'm Nutritional Biochemistry. I do just about the same stuff as he would.

[Spicy McHaggis 0]

4 fucking 0, baby!

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

Partial Differential Equations - A+

Analysis for Dynamical Systems - A+

Introduction to Probability - A+

Convexity Theory - DEF (continuing this course into the new semester)

Contemporary Political Issues - A

 

My overall GPA is something like 4.28 on a 4.33 scale.

[Mole 0]

And Mole, I'm Nutritional Biochemistry. I do just about the same stuff as he would.

Damn, you smart bastard.

[Guest Jay Z. Hollywood]

Archaeology 101 B

Psychology of Sport B

Archaeology of Classical Civilization C

The Television Revolution A

 

Semester GPI: 3.0

Cumulative GPA: 3.04

 

Skimming along the edges of what I need to get the juicy communications internships here

Edited January 21, 2004 by DuskTillDawn

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

I know this won't go over well...

 

Nutrition and Disease: A

Methods in Nutritional Sciences: A-

Teaching Apprenticeship: A

Empirical Research: A

 

3.94

And now the free flights to get whooed by grad schools begins.

Why wouldn't that go over well? Hell, those either seem like bird courses, if they're even real subjects at all. Teaching Apprenticeship?

 

EDIT: I'm in high school. I have two exams on Friday and two on Monday, for my senior year and I can't fuck it up or I won't get accepted into U of T, which has pretty high standards. Yay.

Actually, they are all 400 level courses. Nutrition and Disease was the hardest class I've taken at Cornell. More medical terms than I knew what to do with, with an MD professor who talked over everyone's head.

 

Empirical research was an easy A, but to get it I had to clone a DNA library from tissue mRNA and grow cell lines.

 

Teaching apprenticeship was tough. I taught a class as an undergraduate TA. I had to grade twenty 15 page papers, write exam questions, prepare for and teach a 60 minute section each week, and some other stuff.

 

And Mole, I'm Nutritional Biochemistry. I do just about the same stuff as he would.

I see. I was thinking about taking life sciences, but I'm more of a "Maths/Physics" kind of guy, so that's out of the question. I can't stand all of the memorizing crap that comes with biology and kinesiology, such a waste of time.

 

For someone whose used to percentages and the like, how does the GPA work? I always thought that 4.0 was perfect or something, but then someone said that they had gotten higher? What's a 4.0 then, like an 85?

[Ace309 0]

Just as a side note, I found out yesterday that I got a Politcal Science Outstanding Student commendation for the Canadian Politics class, which is also the class that spawned the paper I'm presenting in March at Crossing Borders.

 

And the bastard STILL only gave me an A-.