Another 4.0

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Another 4.0
Well, I just got my last grade back for this semester. I made a 4.0, just like I thought I would.
Again, I'm the perfect example of a great student and a lazy bum at the same time. I didn't deserve A's, and yet I have them. The only class I tried in at all really was Japanese, and even then I completely skipped a test and a quiz. I turned homework in late on a regular basis and didn't really care. Heck, I didn't even take my oral final. The most work I put into that class was staying up the night before the final, not to study, but to finish my homework that was a week late. I didn't even review the vocabulary for the final... Yeah.
For the other classes, it was again general BSing, especially since they were literature classes. I didn't read like half the books in Japanese Lit, I skipped 3 weeks of Chinese Lit and only read 2 or 3 books for the semester. My papers were generally rehashed class discussions or things that were so common knowledge that I have no idea how a teacher could look at the thesis statements and not burst out laughing. Did I learn anything this semester? Good question. Maybe a little... found a few books I like... but generally it wasn't what college should be.
Why do I get decent grades if I don't work hard enough to get them? Is it even ok? It's not like I'm going to go talk to the teachers and ask that they lower my grade, but really. I would have given myself these grades below if I were a teacher:

Japanese: A
Chin Lit: B-
Jap Lit: B+
Asian Amer Lit: A-
That's how I feel I should have done, based on effort. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to work enough that I feel like I've learned something in Japan these next two semesters.