As the EE 323 grades finally made their way out of the Dean’s office (where Rob and I both agree they must have been tied up) semester 6 of 8 officially draws to a close. While it was not the most successful one to date, it was good enough to leave me in what I consider good shape coming out of 3 years of this thing they call undergrad.

Luckily last semester carried a few more labs that boosted the total credit earned up by 0.8 engineering course units over the second semester of third year. That combined with last semester’s almost spotless set of numbers… well let’s just say it keeps me just above that beautiful threshold they call 0.05 which allows me to round up instead of down when calculating the GPA. I’ll admit it’s a pretty sad tale when I’m figuring out those kinds of things but you need something to try and calculate when you’re biking in the rain. What else did I calculate you might ask? Well… I’m still above a 4.0 if I do the calculations factoring all the “+” marks as a bonus 0.3 grade points.

I was well pleased by the stellar lab report mark I sucked out of the last 397 project. While the system is designed to wreak havoc on the self esteem of everyone in engineering physics and honors physics programs, I feel like I won a tiny battle with the last project. Isn’t that what it’s about? I won the battle even though they won the war?? Oh well, so it isn’t quite that way but when you deal with “a personality” such as the one we all had to deal with it’s enough to leave me feeling alright about it.