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i kept a 3.2 which was exactly enough to maintain my scholarship. CS was a difficult major at my school and a lot of larger, easy classes suffered from grade d
by unshift 15y ago
i kept a 3.2 which was exactly enough to maintain my scholarship. CS was a difficult major at my school and a lot of larger, easy classes suffered from grade deflation. a lot of times i decided to just take the B in classes i didn't care about.
i also did a lot of CS group projects on my own which led to a lesser grade but better learning experience. i put a lot of effort into learning material i was interested in and got good grades in those classes.
post college, my GPA has had absolutely zero effect on any facet of my life.
- confuzzled 15y agoSo if it wasn't for your scholarship, you wouldn't have cared about grades?
- unshift 15y agoi probably would have regardless because i've been conditioned that way all my life, but i wish it wasn't the case. i'd have had a hard time dealing with getting a C, but looking back i wish i spent less time doing busy work for dumb classes and more time doing other things like chasing girls and having fun the fact is i could have worked my ass off for an A in french class, or writing, or whatever, and years later i wouldn't remember the material regardless because i didn't care about it at all. in the classes i did enjoy and did want to do well in, the material stuck with me (partly because it's my job)