It took me 12 quarters here at Cal Poly, but I finally did it. I managed to pull off a 3.5 GPA for the Winter 2006 quarter, making it onto the Dean's List. It was quite exciting and highly anticipated... here's how it all broke down.ENGL 149: This was perhaps the most surprising and disappointing... then again it set me up for the big excitement. Anyways, I was expecting to get a 100% in the class from Day 1, when I heard from Brian how easy Professor Rheingans was... and how relaxed she was in class. All the quizzes we took totally held me back, being as how I fucked up most of them... worth 10% of the grade I think. Project 1: 100%, Project 2: 100%, Project 3: 70%?!?!?! Yeah, that screwed it up... all because I wanted to screw Hasan over for not doing SHIT in his part of the project. Midterm: 100%, Presentation: 100%. I wonder what I got on that final paper... oh well. Final Grade: B+
EE 409: Okay, so her class is pretty fucked up. 1 quiz, 1 attendance, 1 midterm, and 1 final = your whole damn grade. A total of 13 problems combined that accounted for all the points... talk about BS. The whole class would've been easy, but I fucked up on the first midterm (lots of details here, basically she decided to change everything up on us and not give a test similar to what we had up our sleeves, and that just fucked us up). Haha, there was the whole incident of Andrew's transmittal to Arakaki's e-mail of our copy of the old final... good thing we had that thing, because the actual final had about 2 (out of 7) of them on it verbatim. I thought I did okay on the rest of it, and hoped that she would curve the class. I guess I either screwed up more than I thought I did or she didn't curve it as much. Final Grade: B-
EE 449: This one was a no brainer, Brian/Chase/I killed those labs and lab reports (all but 1) and averaged like 96% on all the reports, plus my notebook was spectacular. Final Grade: A
EE 442: Adam's a godsend. After Adam took the lab final, he basically came out and told me exactly what I had to do step by step on the final. I went in and took it... fudged some numbers around but I got the overall idea of it. We did okay on the lab reports, I think we averaged like a 8.5/10 on them... which I think was what brought my grade down a bit. Either way, I did okay. Final Grade: A-
EE 460: This time we get to thank Andrew for hooking it up after his section took the test before mine did. I definetly got at least 1/2 of the final right, on the forming/storming/norming/performing/adjouring part... but the "iterative something" I would've fudged, had Andrew not told me about it. Then there was that gay little evaluation test which we don't even know if it played anything into our grade. Final Grade: A
EE 402: Okay, so at this piont in time, I'm sporting a 3.2 GPA with the grades already given. But for one reason or another, 402 grades were not posted on Wednesday all day. I calculated and figured out that nothing short of an A in this 4 unit class will bump me up to a 3.5 MAXIMUM. Therefore, there was no room (+/-) to spare at all. I did great on the first midterm (90, should've been 93 or more had I not forgotten units and screwed up on signs) and above average on the second (66, class average was a 55 and this should've easily been a 80 test but time came into play and I also had a couple tiny concepts wrong). Obviously almost a 100% on the homework, and I studied pretty hard for this test. My 1 sheet of notes was fantastic... I had little compartments and whatnot on it, and I fit EVERYTHING from sheet #1 and #2 onto there, rewrote EVERYTHING. The final was 11 problems, of which 7 of them I had little to no problems with. There was the Smith Chart problem where I didn't have a TI-89 calculator to convert phasors to rectangular forms for me, but I managed to figure out ONE set of conversions, and basically took the assumption for the following section to be correct (doing it with the actual Chart) and just fudged a number that yielded 2% error, heheh. Then there was the reverse Smith Chart problem, of which I just kinda screwed around a bit but ended up I think getting the general principle of it right. The antenna problem I BS'ed my way through via the notes I had on my sheet. Lastly, there was a perfect conductor problem which we had to solve for the current density (Js) which I did NOT know how to even start... so it was turned in blank. Nevertheless, Thursday morning when I expected the grades to be posted, I was finally able to put all the dreams I had (and I really did have dreams where I dreamt that I had gotten the A in that class, only to wake up and go "fuck that was a dream") into reality and scream "YESSSS!!!" when I finally saw the above picture, showing my... Final Grade: A
So there you have it folks. A 3.5 GPA for one quarter and a little "Dean's List" insertion on my transcript for Winter Quarter of 2006. When the Dean's List certificate comes in the mail, it's going up on the refridgerator.
