Originally posted by seaworthc
its obvious from this post you go to a weak school. I can't remember the last time I took a class where 89.99=90. I think you should be more concerned with the fact that all those A's in the past probably only compare to a C+ at you local community college.
join the real world. 89.99 = B+ = failure.
seaworth, your candid "telling it like it is" has changed my life forever. all this time, here i was buried in my books, striving to do my best, thinking that it didn't matter where i went to school as long as i genuinely put my heart into my work and that the great big guy in the sky would equalize it for me. no, wait- before you begin to laugh and scorn at my naivete...i realize now how foolish i was! your words ring of the truth i should have had the guts to admit to myself the first time my ears pricked when i heard the sketchy word "curve" or "bonus question" in my biochem 9999 class. and they call themselves an accredited undergraduate institution!!
how can i in full conscience accept this, this (*spits*) "transcript" of "As"...a mere cloak, a facade for what the education at my lowly grade-inflated institution is truly worth...indeed, this a- is a blessing in disguise, jolting me out of my self-constructed dreamworld.
having realized the error of my ways...i've decided to do a post-bacc program. you know, the one you can apply for when you had a really bad undergrad record? i know it's a long, tough road ahead...i know i'm going to have to convince adcoms of my newfound maturity to overcome my pathetic ugrad record (with that a-!
) but i can do it! inspired by the "99" thread, i'm going to aim for a post-bacc transcript of ALL 99.9s (forget numerical grades, they're too vague.) when i succeed, i hope to inspire the other sdners who are in my position!
thanks so much for opening my eyes to my true potential. seaworth, i really admire you and wish more sdners would be like you...then we'd all be one step closer to that ideal goal: the well-earned, honest straight-A record.
