But I do have it in a frame, so that’s good.

There was a stretch in February and March that was pretty rough.  Between classes, work, being sick, Trivia, and more, I got a little bogged down.  Something had to give.  Unfortunately, my ASP.NET class is what gave.

The professor mentioned to me that he was very forgiving on due dates for students that were in their CIS internship.  I told him that he really shouldn’t have told me that.  My attendance dropped drastically. I always intended on going to the next class, after I caught up on sleep or got the assignment completed.  That just didn’t seem to happen though.  (For the record, I was doing just fine in my other classes, it was just this one that I was having the problem with.)

Two weeks ago the professor sent out an email saying that the midterm was that Thursday.  Panic time.  I met with the professor.  He was very understanding about the whole thing, much more than I had any right to expect.  I did a couple of days of frantic studying and took the exam.  Then came a week of spring break.  Today I showed up for regular class for the first time in quite a while.  He handed the midterms back and I got a solid B.  Not perfect, but damn lucky.

This is the sort of stunt I used to pull the last time I was in college.  Except that I used to just stop going to class, never to return, and I’d fail the class.  So this is an improvement. Far from perfect, but at least I am passing the course instead of failing it.

I had my first math exam in 15 years (give or take) on Friday. I had been pretty sick for the preceding week and I came into the exam knowing that I wasn’t going to be able to do my best. (At that point I was pretty happy to be awake and moving, much less able to take an exam.) I took the exam and knew that I was pretty lost on the last page but otherwise it didn’t seem too bad.

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I just got my English 351 grade. I got an A. Three classes, three 4.0s. Unprecedented in my academic history, I think. Why didn’t I realize that college was this easy on my first (or even second) time through?
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My “winterim” advanced business writing class started on January 3. It runs from 8:30 to noon every weekday until January 19th. It is a “writing emphasis” course so there is usually a writing assignment or two due every day. It’s a lot of work but I’d much rather do it this way than have it spread out over an entire semester.
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I took my last final this morning.
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