2 posts tagged “finals”
I don't like to post about TV too often, since most of the stuff I watch religiously is either mind-numbing or obscure. This month has been all about the shows I want to see, though! BBC American finally graced us with another season of Hex, the show about a bunch of hot British teenagers trying to either destroy or save the world. (I had to wait for more than a year before they launched the new season!) And tonight there is finally...after waiting and waiting for all of HBO's other shows to end...a new episode of Big Love!
On another note, I won't get to watch this until I get home from finishing today's finals. This is the first semester that I've actually done well enough in a math class that I don't have to worry about getting a decent grade on the final in order to pass the class. It's not that I'm that bad at math; it's just that some of the professors at my school have ridiculously high grading standards. If I get as low as a D- on the final tonight in my statistics class, I'll still get a B in the class. (Unfortunately, I'd still have to get a 100% on the final in order to get an A.) The C's I've been getting in math have really brought down my GPA, so a B in stats will look good on my transcripts. I thought I would be excited that all of my math is done, but I'm a little disappointed. I just started getting it, and liking it. I think I'll have to take another stats class at university, since I've heard that working knowledge of statistics is necessary for an anthro major. A little part of me really wants to learn more math.
I just took my last final of the semester. With luck, I passed both of the classes I took. This was the first semester that I've given up on trying too hard to get an A; I just wanted to pass with a C and be done with it. Why, you ask? Because I've finished all of the classes for my major, and now I'm just trying to finish the few classes I need to transfer to real college. I'm going to be able to transfer to university in the fall (finally), and I only have three classes left to take: the last half of Elementary Algebra, Statistics, and a "life-long learning and understanding" class (I chose Psychology of Sexuality). I've stopped caring about A's, because I know that as a tranfer student who is only planning on going to a Cal State, I can hopefully get in pretty easily.
Sometimes I wish that I had bothered to take the extra classes I needed in high school that would have allowed me to go straight to university, but I think that with my inability to stick to things, I would've ended up at community college in the long run. I think I was destined to be a 26 year old junior in college. Oh well. I think that I'll end up the happier for it, since now I know what I really want to do. I've found that of the people I know who went to college, the ones who surfed around for a while before finding something they were truly passionate about are much happier in life than the one who went straight to college from high school and picked a major just to graduate in four years.
One should not be defined by one's career, but it happens. I don't want to end up like some of the women at my work: 65 years old, making $10 an hour after working there for 40 years, unable to retire, and having lived the "get over it" life that is retail. I may be 30 before I even get my bachelor's, but isn't thirty the new twenty, anyway?
