feels like a milestone...
Mar. 30th, 2004 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electricland...and a weight off my shoulders.*
I called up McGill and asked them to reset my password so I could access my student records (it's been a long, looooooong time since I knew my MARS password). Looking at my transcript was like a 1-minute roller-coaster ride through undergrad, and it took a while for my heartbeat to return to normal.
I don't remember every single course, naturally, but I do remember each year very vividly. First year plain sailing. Second year a couple of hiccups (which at that time meant two B-), but still good. Third year I actually encountered a couple of subjects I couldn't master at one glance, and started to fall apart -- there's a supplemental exam in there, and a D and a C+ and an F. Then it all goes to hell.
Fourth year: catastrophe (there were long stretches where I didn't go to class, and I'm sure I only managed that respectable mark in my honours project out of pity) -- grades ar all over the map, there's two Fs, a D, an Absent and a Deferred in which I eventually got a C+. Shudder.
Then there's a year-long gap, during which I interned at a now-defunct national magazine, spent a lot of time in my room, got on my parents' nerves, and finally worked at Cineplex Odeon. I highly recommend this last as a spur to finishing your degree.
Final year: straight As. Well, two A- (which considering one is for a lab course I'd failed once and then been AWOL for during most of the following semester, shows remarkable forbearance on the part of the supervisor --![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stilldeepwater, you remember Dr. Wilcek?). Hah. See, McGill? I can do it if I want to. Take that. And graduation. Finis.
raithen has just put to rest some 3? 4? (how long is it since I began to contemplate going back to school?) years of angst about how those last two years will look to admissions committees ("they will likely ask about them at an interview, then move on.... :D"). On the downside, I suppose this means I now have to rely on my application-writing talents rather than the brilliance of my transcript. Eek.
It seems silly, writing about it, but it does feel like one more demon stomped on.
*I suppose milestones are weights. Perhaps I've passed the milestone and taken the weight off my shoulders to rest for a bit. Does that mean I have to pick it up again, or can I just bury part of what's in the backpack and not think about it again? Can I beat a metaphor to death or what?
I called up McGill and asked them to reset my password so I could access my student records (it's been a long, looooooong time since I knew my MARS password). Looking at my transcript was like a 1-minute roller-coaster ride through undergrad, and it took a while for my heartbeat to return to normal.
I don't remember every single course, naturally, but I do remember each year very vividly. First year plain sailing. Second year a couple of hiccups (which at that time meant two B-), but still good. Third year I actually encountered a couple of subjects I couldn't master at one glance, and started to fall apart -- there's a supplemental exam in there, and a D and a C+ and an F. Then it all goes to hell.
Fourth year: catastrophe (there were long stretches where I didn't go to class, and I'm sure I only managed that respectable mark in my honours project out of pity) -- grades ar all over the map, there's two Fs, a D, an Absent and a Deferred in which I eventually got a C+. Shudder.
Then there's a year-long gap, during which I interned at a now-defunct national magazine, spent a lot of time in my room, got on my parents' nerves, and finally worked at Cineplex Odeon. I highly recommend this last as a spur to finishing your degree.
Final year: straight As. Well, two A- (which considering one is for a lab course I'd failed once and then been AWOL for during most of the following semester, shows remarkable forbearance on the part of the supervisor --
stilldeepwater, you remember Dr. Wilcek?). Hah. See, McGill? I can do it if I want to. Take that. And graduation. Finis.raithen has just put to rest some 3? 4? (how long is it since I began to contemplate going back to school?) years of angst about how those last two years will look to admissions committees ("they will likely ask about them at an interview, then move on.... :D"). On the downside, I suppose this means I now have to rely on my application-writing talents rather than the brilliance of my transcript. Eek.It seems silly, writing about it, but it does feel like one more demon stomped on.
*I suppose milestones are weights. Perhaps I've passed the milestone and taken the weight off my shoulders to rest for a bit. Does that mean I have to pick it up again, or can I just bury part of what's in the backpack and not think about it again? Can I beat a metaphor to death or what?
