Thursday, January 13, 2011
Grades
They suck to keep up. It's ridiculous the amount of emphasis everyone puts on grades, and to be honest, a single bad overall grade isn't going to murder your chances of getting into a good college. But to be honest, no one has a right to complain about them. I keep talking about my B in Euro, saying it was because of the ridiculous difficulty of the class, especially compared to the other Euro classes, but while that undoubtedly played a part, there are people who got As in that class, and I should have been one of them. I justify my really low scores on my two AP tests and French Subject SAT last year by saying it doesn't matter, because I'm not majoring in anything remotely related to European history or French, but those are just excuses. There isn't any reason for me to not have done well on those tests.
And as for every person who has, in their lifetime, blamed one of their grades on a harsh teacher, or on the fact that "no matter how hard I try, I just don't get it," we need to stop. A low grade is the product of nothing but yourself. It may be influenced by multiple things - a hard grading scale, an insanely difficult test - but in the end, it's your own fault if you don't achieve the score you want. The exception is when everyone failed, which is extremely unlikely - even for the calc test that had an average of 46%, there were people who got As. And while it may be harder for us to achieve just as high of a grade as those to whom the subject matter comes naturally, there isn't any reason that we can't. We're not stupid, just unmotivated, undisciplined, and unwilling to do all that it takes to get that score. We say we will, but think about it. Facebook, Tumblr, AIM? How often have we gone on those sites while "studying?" How often have we gotten distracted?
It's time we stopped blaming our grades on everything but ourselves, and took a step back to realize, the only ones shouldering the blame should be the ones we're currently pardoning - no one else but "me, myself, and I."
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