Report Card

I worry sometimes about coming across here as the arrogant snob I really am, but then I stop myself and say, "Hey, what's the point of having a blog if you can't brag about your accomplishments?"

Spring quarter grades were posted this morning and I'm happy to say I did well. My grades line up, not surprisingly, in order of how much I enjoyed my classes. I got a 3.9 (UW does not give letter grades) in Cataloging, which was my favorite library/information science class ever, and a 3.8 in Classification Theory, which was almost as cool as Cataloging, and I even managed to get a 3.5 in the Stupid Core Course I Hated And Whose Purpose Remains A Mystery. This averages out to a 3.71 for the quarter and a 3.84 for the year. Which is pretty decent, all things considered. (And you wonder why I have little pity for the transfer applicants who explain that their GPA dropped to a 1.8 last semester because their roommate's cousin's grandmother has cancer. Foxy and I have talked about this before--neither of us is the type to roll up in a ball in a corner and stop functioning when our lives seem to be falling apart (in fact, I think that focus on the day-to-day things is what keeps us sane), which is great for us, but it makes it difficult for us to have empathy for those who are that type, which is not so great.)

Even more gratifying than my grades for the quarter is the feedback my Classification professor gave me on my paper about lesbianism and homosexuality in LCSH and LCC. She gave me a 4.0 on the paper and thinks I should submit it somewhere for publication. Which is cool because it's one of those papers that I got excited about as I did the research and was easy to write because I actually had something to say, so it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who thinks I had a good idea or two.

This is what I love about school--no, not people telling me how wonderful I am (though that is nice), but finding subjects I can feel passionately about, ideas I can wrestle with, and dialogues I can contribute to. It's good to be reminded that school is something I can enjoy now, not just a means to a future end.