Hey! It's me again! Plain, to see you again! Annnnnd...that's enough of Cheap Trick...(thank you to How I Met Your Mother for getting that song stuck in my head...)
I survived the hardest semester of my undergraduate career! I had 6 solid As going into finals week, which is a big deal since grades on are the +/- system here, so a 93 is an A- and therefore is not an 4.0. Then the Sunday night before finals starts, I get sick. And I'm not talking head cold sick or nerves sick...I'm talking a sickness that was not pretty. I was sick for a solid 36 hours, and missed 3 finals, which my professor (same one for all three classes, which was convenient) was kind enough to let me make up. And even with the amazing kindness of my professor, I knew that my 4.0 for the semester was gone. Being sick for 36 hours really screws stuff up. I ended up with 3 As and 3 A-s, which I know is spectacular, even when you don't take into account that I was sick for the first day and a half of finals week, and that I had to make up 3 finals, back-to-back, on the same day, in my professor's office, with her sitting right there, an entire week after I would have taken them had I not gotten sick. Anyways, I'm not "complaining" about my 3.835 gpa for the semester, which combined with last semester's 3.868, gives me a 3.85ish gpa at Roosevelt (and brings my cumulative gpa for my first 3 years of college to a 3.69), it's just frustrating that I had the 4.0 within reach and lost it because I got sick. Don't get me wrong, I am eternally grateful to my forensic psychology professor, who taught three of my classes, for letting me make those finals up with no penalty. And I am lucky that my cross-cultural communications professor allowed me to turn in my final paper 4 days late and only took 10% off of my grade. I know that I made out like a bandit in this situation, but the perfectionist in me misses that 4.0.
But hey, I kicked some serious butt this semester considering the workload that this 18-hour semester threw at me, especially the month of April. Goodness. The month of April, alone, had a group project with a PowerPoint presentation, a big project that involved interviewing people about their stress levels, 2 huge homework assignments, 1 test, an individual presentation on an article from a scholarly psychology journal, an 8-10 page case report where I had to pretend that I was a repressed memory expert who was going to testify in court, an oral examination where I had to pretend I was a repressed memory expert who was testifying in court, 2 basic papers, and 1 of my 6 finals (would have been 4, but I had to make up 3 of them). That's not including trying to keep up with the readings in some of those classes. So yeah, I survived, and I did well. I'm so glad I never have to take 18 hours again.
OH, and I'M A SENIOR IN COLLEGE NOW! How did that happend?? It really makes me feel old and like an adult, and I just don't like it...lol. But seriously, I'm a senior. I have to start making big life decisions about graduate school or law school or working or what the heck I actually want to do with my life after I graduate...that's intense.
For now though, I'm going to take the summer to work, study for the LSAT, and take advantage of the fact that I live 5 blocks from Lake Michigan and do some reading on the beach. LET'S GO SUMMER 2013!
Until next time,
Amber Marie <3
