Culling the flock. [16 Apr 2007|10:49am] [ music | Midlake "Roscoe" ] Just got back in from the accountant's and checking my mark in quantum. Leaving the exam early definitely hurt my grade, I ended up with a C+ overall. There were two people at the A+ level, two at A-, and one A. about 3/4 of the class ended up passing. I looked at some of the student numbers of the people who failed and my eyes welled up with tears. I remembered how hard they'd studied, some of them are my friends. A few of them are pretty likely to be removed from UVic (having an F on their transcripts while on academic probation pretty much guarantees that they won't have the GPA to get off academic probation.) Seeing so many people fail out is getting ridiculous. I need to keep on making new study-friends each semester because so many of them have fallen out of the program. We have lost somewhere around 1/2 of our program since the first few third year classes. This is hard to see because they are all very bright people (relatively speaking). You don't get into third year physics by being slow on the uptake, you can slack, but everyone in the program is obviously very sharp. Now so many of them just have to give up on what they wanted to do with their lives. Well, I'm pretty much guaranteed my B.Sc. at this point (I need about 5 more courses), but I'm left with the dilemma of not having good enough grades for grad school. If I want into an interesting program for graduate studies I need a B+/B at least. I'm skimming a B-/C+ at the moment. I'm intending on taking a bunch of extra 4th year courses and hopefully I can bring my grade up from there. I don't know what I'm going to do. I need to study now. 5 comments|post comment

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