Finals suck

**station82o** · 22 Dec 2006, 05:03 PM

i finished just above 3.00 with a 3.01 - pretty relieved at that, it was a long climb back up there.

**The_Meach** · 22 Dec 2006, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by Frito

I'm starting on a final paper that's due in three hours.

Hooray, beer.

Thread winner!

**Brisco Bold** · 22 Dec 2006, 11:35 PM

I remember fretting about my grades in University. Then I got to college, where getting a 4.0, 3.4 or 2.8, was irrelevant; it's all about whether the guy you know has a hook-up in HR.

**Fe 26** · 23 Dec 2006, 05:39 AM

that sentence makes no sense to me

**FuryFox** · 23 Dec 2006, 12:11 PM

He's talking about jobs.

**Brisco Bold** · 23 Dec 2006, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by buttcheeks

that sentence makes no sense to me

University and colleges are seperate entities in Canada. Colleges offer vocational, hands-on training. Universities offer theoretical, fancy-book learning.

Grades don't matter in college; the goal is acquiring a job. Your goal in university, as you generally aren't trained for anything in particular, is bumping up/keeping up that GPA. (That of course depends on your major.) When you leave the university enviroment, it comes as quite a shock that the thing you work so hard to maintain is meaningless to everyone but you.

Edit: And there are two sentences in that post, not one.

**Fe 26** · 23 Dec 2006, 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by Brisco Bold

University and colleges are seperate entities in Canada. Colleges offer vocational, hands-on training. Universities offer theoretical, fancy-book learning.

Grades don't matter in college; the goal is acquiring a job. Your goal in university, as you generally aren't trained for anything in particular, is bumping up/keeping up that GPA. (That of course depends on your major.) When you leave the university enviroment, it comes as quite a shock that the thing you work so hard to maintain is meaningless to everyone but you.

Edit: And there are two sentences in that post, not one.

lol, college in canada is vo-tech?

**NoboruWataya** · 24 Dec 2006, 01:57 AM

A+, A, A. Three semesters in, still a 4.0.

Yay for grad school: where an A is still an A, but a B is D, and a B- is an F.

(I finished undergrad with a 3.2; damn distributive studies requirements to hell)

Edit: More interestingly, in the intro to high school math for college freshmen course i taught, I gave 3a's, 3b's, 5c's, 4d's and 5f's. We did factoring, rational expressions, functions, logs, exponentials and a little bit of conic sections.