janetlin | Jan. 20th, 2007

I just realized I never posted how my grades turned out after my last finals.

Child Development: D+ (grr, which means I must have only got a C on the final. I really don't want to take this class again...)
Geology: B- (I still totally love this teacher)
Linguistics: B
Russian: A- (Yeah, seriously. "Gifted" with languages as I supposedly am, I haven't gotten an A in a language class since probably Spanish in High School. Wow.)

So I was incorrect in the way I was calculating my own GPA. Pluses and minuses do have different point values than full letter grades. *sigh* So my optimistic logic that "A- is still an A" doesn't quite apply. But, the flip side of that is that a D+ doesn't hurt me as badly as a plain D. So. My cumulative GPA is slowly being drawn up and at the moment I'm sitting at 2.66 (smack in the middle of C), which is generally nothing to be proud about except that I know I can make it continue to creep up. Graduation requires 3.0.

Classes start again on the 29th. Turns out my second semester of Russian has _not_ been canceled. And I think I'll keep it. I was considering dropping it so I could take British Lit I from the same teacher I'd had before (who was cool), which happens in the same time slot. But

fiery_fairy has this mad plot to go to Russia in May/June and I would really really really like to go, so I figure I'd better keep my skills up. Oh, also while I was scrolling through the class schedule to find out if it had been canceled, I came across Linguistic Anthropology: Guh. *drool* And it's three units, and it's during an open time in my schedule... I'm so torn! I could drop Russian and take that instead, or I could take it in _addition_, which will give me 16 units this semester. Nothing unusual or remarkable about that except that if my grades were the way they were while I was only carrying 13, I don't know that I want to push it by adding another class worth of homework. I was further saved once I got home and checked my catalogue, and it turns out Linguistic Anthropology has a prerequisite, anyway, so I can't take it this semester. The prereq, conveniently, is Intro to Cultural Anth, which I am taking. So maybe I can take the other one in the fall.

Oh, and speaking of, while I was in that section of the catalogue, I checked the requirements for Anthropology minors. 18 units, 12 of which need to be Upper Division. So I went trawling through the course list to see if enough classes caught my interest, and it turns out the ones that sound interesting to me fit that exactly: four three-unit upper division classes, and two three-unit lower division ones (one of which is the one I'm already signed up for this spring). I could totally do this!