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I struggled through high school. My average grade was a B, and that was with me giving 110%, studying for hours before each quiz, etc. I always had a hard time learning from the way teachers taught in high school. Some classes made sense to me and I excelled in them; others I had trouble passing. I made 2 Ds in high school. My GPA ended up being 3.5ish which was abysmally low to me considering I gave it my all.
College was more challenging, but easier at the same time if that makes sense. It required more work, but it was easier to control your grade because if you put forth effort, in most cases it was rewarded. There were a few classes (mainly math classes) that I had some major trouble with and ended up with a really low B in but I managed to only make 1 C all four years: a modern theatre history class that I took as a humanity course. There were 29 senior theater majors in it and me (a freshman computer major). I got into the course a few days late because there was nothing left to take. Me, being a freshman, had no idea that syllabuses were to be asked for and not given out, so I had no idea that the next class period there was a project due that couldn't be turned in late. It was my only 0 all four years, and it ended up making me have a C+ average even though I made As and Bs on every other quiz/exam/project in that class.
I guess my point is that even though I struggled through high school and college, I still made good grades, simply because I fucking tried. I ended up with a 3.55 cumulative GPA in college and a 3.85 major GPA, graduated with honors. And I thought it was absolutely beyond hard and took an amazing amount of effort.
My roommate junior year simply gave up. Morale is a huge part of college and some people can't get over a bad morale. You missed one class, oops, might as well fail that class because I can't get caught up, right! Might as well skip that test because I was at a party and didn't have time to study! I would have failed it anyway!
I think a C average is OK to get a degree, but only barely. Anything below that and the person doesn't deserve the degree or the status associated with it. Anyone willing to try their hardest can maintain a C average or above. If you don't take college seriously your first few years and haven't grown up by then and had the will power to do well then you have big problems anyway. It's fucking pathetic when people fail out of college because 99% of the time it's because they just don't give a shit whether they're successful or not.
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