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Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
Lines:
Dude, I hope it turns out to be closer to a month.5 than a year.
Cicero:
I think everyone has a bad college semester. When I was hired as an RA, (sophomore year -- served until junior year, then I got fired) I ended up getting a 1.75 GPA for the Fall semester. It totally dicked my cumulative, but whatever. I was just overwhelmed with stuff and had some of the same things ya'll were talking about. Working 20-30 hours a week, classes and the whole social life thing can be hard to balance.
OTOH, Going on academic probation was a real motivator for me, and then I kicked it in gear. Basically, I would have lost all my financial aid and not have been able to go to school had I fucked up again; pretty much par for the course everywhere else. Knowing that, and knowing that I had scholarships and grants, I figured I better take advantage of shit. So I'm here now, finishing up my fourth year and only a half semester away from my double major. Then again, I still have really never tried.
Last night was the first night I actually did "homework" that was not a paper since I was in high school. Statistics shit. Lame. Coincidentally, I dropped that class my Senior year of HS because I was getting a 98% in it. . . and now all of it seems so foreign. I mean fuck, four years ago. I have always just gotten by easily because I'm "naturally smart" (I guess) -- and without studying, I've managed a pretty respectable GPA for undergraduate work.
I look back and I'm sort of disappointed. Yeah, I've held down part-time jobs all four years and worked for three different Departments, now lobby and serve on the Senate -- but I kind of feel like I pissed in the faces of the people I got scholarships from and the taxpayers ultimately for their grants. Even the loans. I could have done much better if I actually tried, but meh. I'm trying now though, just to see how a little effort can go as far as the ol' GPA boostin' in case grad school becomes an option considering the economic prospect of the day.
Oh well, I'm rambling.
Anyways Animal Ghost, shit happens, sorry to hear you got arrested -- and I hope stuff gets better man. I've had two run ins with the police over the past two weeks and they were just ridiculous. I'm just glad Fargo cops are stupid as fuck. Yay for that.
KvP:
--- Quote from: Animal Ghosts on 26 Jan 2009, 20:12 ---Yeah but see, my grades are good, I am totally engaged in my school, and absolutely don't want to not be taking classes. I took my time off before starting school, and definitely don't feel the need to take any more time off. Plus, there's no way I'd want to go anywhere else, I'd have to take more than one class at once and couldn't go bouldering after lunch every day. I just got arrested while on campus and the school is all agro about it.
Fuckers.
--- End quote ---
So they let you do that at the Springs campus but at the Boulder campus they wouldn't?
Granted, Boulder's fucking expensive, and I'm not really a fan of the atmosphere, but there's always Superior or Longmont to commute from, which isn't too bad.
Professor Snuggles:
My school is a private college, boulder is a state school. They have no connection.
KvP:
Ah, I thought you were attending CU. My mistake.
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