February 1, 2006
View Comments | Post CommentGULC Grades Are Out
So grades are out here at Georgetown University Law Center, and boy is it funny. After you've heard people cautiously asking, "So... um... are you satisfied with your grades?" or "Hey, by the way... uh... like, are you, like, alright with what you got?"
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Jesus, people, come out and say it. Either be open and honest about it, or be private and stoic. But don't sit there asking around it and being ambiguous. If you want to know what I got, ask my grades. I'll tell you, because I take the open and honest route. I wear my scars proudly. If you don't, keep it to yourself. But there's no harm in asking. If I were instead taking the private and stoic route, I would answer, "I'd rather not say," and that would be it.
It is absolutely incomprehensible to me that anyone would be angry if someone asked them what grades they got. Either one answers, or one declines. Neither alternative should cause anger. So why does everyone refuse to ask?
Maybe I'll start a trend with my blunt and upfront living. Here are my grades:
B- in Civil Procedure
B in Torts
B+ in Contracts
Here's how I feel about them: The Civ Pro and Torts were as expected. Civ Pro was hard and I didn't work enough for it. Torts was easy, but I never read for it, listened in class, or took notes. I'm a bit disappointed in Contracts, because I feel that I knew all that material very well, and I thought I wrote a wonderful exam. But overall, the strictly average (i.e. mediocre) 3.0 comports with all the sleep I got last semester, the lack of reading, the lack of paying attention in class, and the utter lack of studying for the exams.
I'm pretty sure that my Legal Research And Writing grade was good, but I have yet to receive it and anyway, it is only a midterm grade.
So, if you're willing, tell me your grades. If you're not willing to tell me your grades, then don't ask me to ambiguously explain my feelings about mine, and don't ambiguously explain yours. It is in my nature to attempt to disambiguate ambiguous things, and I will do the same with your grades. That will offend you, and I won't feel bad.
Posted at February 1, 2006 12:19 PM | Comments (9)
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i wouldn't be too sure about your legal research and writing grade...what with split infinitives like "to ambiguously explain."
*shakes head in utter disappointment*
Posted by: jeanette at February 1, 2006 1:31 PM
No, I carefully considered that split infinitive, and decided that splitting the infinitive was necessary. If I wouldn't have split the infinitive, it would've been "Don't ask me ambiguously to explain..." which would have made "ask" the verb predicate of "ambiguously," which is not what I intended. Alternatively, I could have made it, "Don't ask me to explain ambiguously my feelings about mine," which just sounds awkward. I suppose that I should've considered it a little longer and changed the entire structure of the sentence in order to avoid the split. Oh, well.
Posted by: David Barzelay at February 1, 2006 1:39 PM
Another perspective on it:
I honestly don't want to know what other people got. I could care less about who scored higher than who. Because they're my friends, though, I do want to know if they're happy or bummed out in general.
So I have been asking a few people if they're satisfied with what they got and leaving it at that regardless of their answer.
As for my grades? I'm satisfied.
Posted by: Aaron at February 1, 2006 5:22 PM
Chicken.
Posted by: David Barzelay at February 1, 2006 5:40 PM
i like split infinitives. so you only had 3 classes plus legal writing last semester?
Posted by: Ula at February 1, 2006 5:50 PM
Yeah. This time we have four plus Legal Research and Writing, which is actually as much work as any of the others, even though it's worth less.
Posted by: David Barzelay at February 1, 2006 6:05 PM
Grade-whores.
(oh, and heres what I got).
A in Microprocessor Applications
B+ in Computer Architecture
B+ in C++
B in Engineering Economy
I should have had the A in economy. Other than that the A in MicroP Im extremely proud of. Its the first class that I was really determined to get an A in.
Posted by: Chris Santoro at February 1, 2006 8:36 PM
Legal Research & Writing - both "worth less" and worthless. I'm sure I'm not the only person who had that thought...
Posted by: Lyndon at February 7, 2006 8:57 AM
With grades like that D, you'll never get a job. At a subpar school like Georgetown, you'll be stuck in a closet doing docket review for some giant law firm. Too bad you won't get paid as much as the kids who got Bs at Harvard.
Legal Research and Writing = most work for least credit. I'd rather sleep late. At least our current brief isn't graded.
Posted by: Your mom at February 9, 2006 2:26 AM
