{"id":22,"date":"2008-02-06T19:48:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T03:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-02-06T20:10:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T04:10:25","slug":"schools-going-ok-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"School’s going ok, I guess."},"content":{"rendered":"

I got my first Physics exam score back today.<\/p>\n

Before I relate the actual raw<\/em> score, let me say that there are some mitigating factors here. I am taking Physics II with Calculus. I haven’t had any contact with Calculus in two years. I haven’t had a Physics course before. Ever. I started<\/em> my Physics career with Physics II with Calculus. I nearly dropped the course the first week and went with an easier one. I decided that I could do it and I toughed it out.<\/p>\n

So, now that I’ve softened it up a bit, my raw score was 44.<\/p>\n

This may seem low. Consider, though, that the class average was 31. And both my score and the class average were out of a possible 44 points.<\/p>\n

I shall now launch into smug, arrogant bragging, so you’ll probably want to just move on to XKCD<\/a> or something.<\/p>\n

Oh, hell yeah.<\/em> I almost dropped<\/em> this course.<\/p>\n

During the exam, I brought two much-needed corrections on the exam itself to the attention of the proctor, who then announced them for the benefit of the rest of the class.<\/p>\n

We have an optional online quiz system to which I am about to make my second correction.<\/p>\n

I’m also taking Intro to Linear Algebra. If I hadn’t been out sick yesterday, I would have got back my first exam in that class yesterday. That’s ok, though, because I knew that I had aced it before I left the exam<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Wil,” you’re probably saying to yourself, “when did you get to be such a smug, arrogant jerk?”<\/p>\n

“Dear reader,” I’d reply, if you were to actually put the question to me, “I’ve always been a smug, arrogant jerk. Usually I don’t strip away the veneer of humility to reveal the stark badassery that is me. Feel free to bask in it while it lasts.”<\/p>\n

And only those special readers who have put up with the all the bragging will now find out that my 44\/44 on the exam counts both the 6-point extra credit problem (that I got right) and the three 2-point problems (that I got wrong.) Don’t tell those non-baskers. They don’t get to see the man behind the titan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got my first Physics exam score back today. Before I relate the actual raw score, let me say that there are some mitigating factors here. I am taking Physics II with Calculus. I haven’t had any contact with Calculus in two years. I haven’t had a Physics course before. Ever. I started my Physics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}