"Please sir, I want an A!" Oliver Twist (when he got into college)
Before moving on to the creation of more exciting blog entries, I need to take care of an item of business. One stipulation of the folklore almanac is that we must account for any absences from class, and while I've been pretty faithful about attending all of my classes; in fact, other than this absence, I can only think of one day that I've missed in one class out of all of the classes of all the semesters of all the years I've been at BYU! It was a Spanish 105 class, in case you were curious, and I didn't feel too bad since 1) the class met every day, 2) I made it to every other class, and 3) as I recall, I had a whopper of a Geography assignment to complete that day.
Anyway, I did miss one day in folklore class - Nov 10 - the day when "Family Expressions and Customs" was discussed. It's really too bad because I enjoyed reading the section about expressions and customs in the book, and it would have been fun to share and listen to what the class members had to say. Still, I had to make a close call between attending class and studying for the English Language 322 exam at 11 am: the one was worth a possible wealth of folklore knowledge; the other 35% of my ELang grade. It will not surprise those who you who are well acquainted with my obsession over grades to learn that I chose the latter. And by the way, the test went quite well - 49/50.
Before moving on to the creation of more exciting blog entries, I need to take care of an item of business. One stipulation of the folklore almanac is that we must account for any absences from class, and while I've been pretty faithful about attending all of my classes; in fact, other than this absence, I can only think of one day that I've missed in one class out of all of the classes of all the semesters of all the years I've been at BYU! It was a Spanish 105 class, in case you were curious, and I didn't feel too bad since 1) the class met every day, 2) I made it to every other class, and 3) as I recall, I had a whopper of a Geography assignment to complete that day.
Anyway, I did miss one day in folklore class - Nov 10 - the day when "Family Expressions and Customs" was discussed. It's really too bad because I enjoyed reading the section about expressions and customs in the book, and it would have been fun to share and listen to what the class members had to say. Still, I had to make a close call between attending class and studying for the English Language 322 exam at 11 am: the one was worth a possible wealth of folklore knowledge; the other 35% of my ELang grade. It will not surprise those who you who are well acquainted with my obsession over grades to learn that I chose the latter. And by the way, the test went quite well - 49/50.
1 comment:
Don't worry. You will never be or feel as bad as I did when I missed one day of class...and the next... and the next...and got a well-deserve d "E" at the end of the semester.The drop in college from 4.0 to 3.6 to 1.99 was mighty fine. I could never get a "C" grade, only A, A-, B+, B, B-, D, E, and W. I really did think that a C would have rounded things out nicely.
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