HA! Sox, that is so true. I actually used to say to the B students who were using the "I tried hard!" defense "And I can tell you worked so hard. You got a B! That's great. That's so much better than the people who just met the standards and got a C!"
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
The Minearverse 6: Fiery Thread of Death
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
Kat - Mar 11, 2008 6:13:07 pm PDT #303 of 4535
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
WindSparrow - Mar 11, 2008 6:32:23 pm PDT #304 of 4535
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Speaking from the other side of the grade war, as a student, I adored my 9th grade algebra teacher. She gave certificates of achievement to everyone in her classes who made a C or better. She gave us this big pep talk at the end of the year, explaining that if you got a C in her class, that meant you had worked hard, mastered the material in a very satisfactory way, and were capable of learning any future level of math that might be required. I can attest that I worked very hard for my B in algebra, learned scads of good study habits because of how that teacher required us to do the work, and gained enormous confidence in myself.
I have long known as a student that a hard-won C often means more than an easy A.
Kevin - Mar 12, 2008 1:16:35 am PDT #305 of 4535
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Aims - Mar 12, 2008 3:09:30 am PDT #306 of 4535
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I have long known as a student that a hard-won C often means more than an easy A.
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SailAweigh - Mar 12, 2008 5:43:44 am PDT #307 of 4535
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I have long known as a student that a hard-won C often means more than an easy A.
This. College was a rude shock to me, that my professors didn't just see how brilliant I was and hand me the A's I was used to and never had to work for before. It didn't take me long to get up to snuff, but it actually ended up making all those A's I got in high school feel like I cheated somehow and that I never actually deserved them.
lisah - Mar 12, 2008 5:46:10 am PDT #308 of 4535
Punishingly Intricate
College was a rude shock to me, that my professors didn't just see how brilliant I was and hand me the A's I was used to and never had to work for before.
College was actually easier for me gradeswise than high school, for the most part. Grad school was the easiest by far. But good grades weren't really the point there.
SailAweigh - Mar 12, 2008 5:50:32 am PDT #309 of 4535
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
But good grades weren't really the point there.
I think that was the problem for me. I started doubting that I'd really learned anything in high school. I knew, even with a B in college, that I had worked for it and had to really learn how to put all the information given to me into a useful context and not rely on sheer memorization of facts.
Tamara - Mar 12, 2008 7:35:02 am PDT #310 of 4535
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
SailAweigh is me. Straight A's without a single bit of homework all through high school. College was quite the shock. Being 17 at the time didn't help either.
Laga - Mar 12, 2008 7:37:53 am PDT #311 of 4535
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
grades? We were being graded? I was hanging out in the student center with the leftists.
Tamara - Mar 12, 2008 7:47:41 am PDT #312 of 4535
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Laga, I was at the University of Oregon. We were all leftists.