This weekend I was finally able to work up the nerve to open my grades from last semester. With so much trauma going on right now I was not about to add to my problems with bad grades.
My mother was actually the one who threatened me with bodily harm if I didn’t open them up and tell her that instant just how brilliant her baby boy was. Mom’s a great aren’t they? And for an instant, I felt like her baby boy again. But then I realized that I had to pay rent and I had a meeting to attend Monday morning first thing. Damn!
I got my grades in the mail from the university almost a month ago. When I saw it sitting on the table of my apartment with the little yellow foreword sticker from the post office all I could think about was the dread of seeing my grades.
Fortunately my grades were not nearly as bad as my sick self-pitying mind made me think. It was stupid to think otherwise, I love what I do and I love my field of study. I have a passion for IT the way Mac folks feel about Apple.
Anyone who doesn’t care about their grades is a prick who either always gets all A’s or has their education paid for. Both of these types of individuals irritate me. Not because I feel inferior to the people who get strait A’s, well maybe a little, and not that I am jealous of those who have rich parents, although I suppose it would be nice to be a trust fund baby. But it’s mainly that I see going to university as a lesson in life. People who don’t take it seriously usually end up hating whatever job they end up getting and just making the rest of us miserable.
3 comments:
you earn your grades, and in your case, you earn them well. trust fund babies don't know what real life is like, and bookworms who get straight A's have no street smarts more often than not. it's better to have an appreciation for what is going on, and if you get good grades in the process, it's all the better. nice work sir.
Your mom is great. But I have to say, I don't understand the need to hide from your grades. For me, when I avoid something like that, it just keeps building that bad kind of stress until I lose functionality. If I just open them, and see how bad it is, then I at least know and can move on. It is hard to make a decision on the next step to take, without knowing how the last step left you.
And also, I know that you did your best in school. And if they didn't like your best, then they can all go straight to hell. :)
sooo.... what category do I fall into... I always wanted to see the grades although I had already figured them out before the end of the semester.... and most of the time they just might have been a's....
Trav are you saying I have no street smarts? cause dude I can kick you :)
Congrats JW, even if I had to hound you to find the actual grades out :)
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