Paying for School

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

First Grade

I got my first grade back from my Masters Module last night.  It was for one of the papers I wrote, a review, for the counselling section of the module.  My paper got an "A".

I was "bouncing off the walls" excited!  I ran upstairs and told my wife, the Elusive, about the mark and she was excited for me.  For all I know everyone is getting "A"s and I'd be fine with that.  What matters to me is that I didn't get a "seriously, you think you can do this?"


As I went to bed last night I was expressing my thankfulness to God and then this thought came to me and kept me awake for a while, "You can only go down from here!"


I've decided this morning that in a "the glass is half full/the glass is half empty" world I'm a "someone probably poisoned my water" kind of guy.

I've got so much to learn.

p.s.  apparently writing before 8 a.m. provokes me to overuse quotation marks.

8 comments:

  1. well done man! super stoked for you and to be honest, you're the man, so for the most part I believe you can consistently hover around where you're at ;)

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  2. Apparently my brain forgets what quotation marks are after 9 p.m. I re-read the post and counted only one exclamation mark which made me wonder why you thought that was an overuse. Doh.

    And awesome!!!!! Congrats on the A!!!

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  3. Thanks Matte! Thanks Calvin - I'll hover but you've got all the dance moves! Thanks for fitting in the time to read Michelle - enjoy your vacay!

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  4. Off to the great start! I got to hand out my first As, Bs, Cs, and even a few Ds, Es (yeah I was surprised we had those too) and even a very few Fs. Assigning the mark is psychologically the hardest part about marking. As a prof it sure is nice to read a paper/exam worthy of an A!

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  5. Es? I hope to avoid that section of the alphabet! I hadn't thought about the grading from that side of things. I hope you are treated nicely on "ratemyteacher".com!

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