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I’ve come to the conclusion that perhaps my expectations are a bit too high these days.\u00a0 This evening my mark was returned for my Enviro Chem paper and I nearly cried.\u00a0 It’s the lowest mark I’ve received on any assignment or paper since I returned to university (discounting the disasters that my exams always turn out to be).\u00a0 Considering the struggles I have with understanding Enviro Chem, I shouldn’t be so surprised that my marks are – at least according to me this evening – substandard.<\/p>\n

That said, I squeaked out an A- on my paper.\u00a0 I have a feeling that I should be satisfied with it and continue moving forward in the hopes of improving as the weeks progress.\u00a0 I’m just worried that if I can’t keep up a minimum 3.7\/4.0 average that I won’t make it into grad school.\u00a0 Scratch that.\u00a0 I’m worried that I won’t make it to 3.7.\u00a0 I’ve got two stinky 2.7s (B-)\u00a0 and two 3.0s (B) on my transcripts from courses I completed before I transfered to RMC.\u00a0 They haunt me.\u00a0 I see B’s dancing around my head in my nightmares.<\/p>\n

I’m feeling very overwhelmed at the moment.\u00a0 Perhaps it’ll pass next week when I’m roaming the halls at ISSOTL<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m super excited about next week.\u00a0 First, I’ve taken the whole week off so I can concentrate on school papers and assignments for a few days.\u00a0 Second, I’m attending my first major education related conference.\u00a0 I’ve been to a number of technical conferences over the years, but I’ve been told that an ed. conference is distinctly different.\u00a0 Third, I’m a co-author (but not presenter) of one of the papers being presented at ISSOTL this year.\u00a0 Yep, I have another notch on my curriculum vitae.\u00a0 Perhaps this will motivate me to write a few other papers over the next few months to try and increase my publishing credits while I’m still working on my undergrad degree.<\/p>\n

In a few days I’ll be registering for my winter courses.\u00a0 Perhaps that explains my current feelings.\u00a0 I checked my course plan this evening and see so many blank areas indicating courses left to be completed.\u00a0 It’s like I’m swimming in glue.\u00a0 I know I’m moving forward but it certainly feels like I’m treading water at the moment.<\/p>\n

Worrying comes natural to me.\u00a0 That said, I do need to get my butt in gear for my current courses.\u00a0 I have two more papers and multiple assignments due before the end of the month.\u00a0 Which brings me back to my happy feelings about the much needed days off next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve come to the conclusion that perhaps my expectations are a bit too high these days.\u00a0 This evening my mark was returned for my Enviro Chem paper and I nearly cried.\u00a0 It’s the lowest mark I’ve received on any assignment or paper since I returned to university (discounting the disasters that my exams always turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}