Chris (mullibok) wrote, @ 2003-11-13 16:44:00

Doors and assignments
The two have nothing to do with each other, except that they're both in this post.

Yesterday I was going out the door of the science building, and another student was on her way in at about the same time. I got to the door a little sooner, and of course pushed it open. As she was passing me going in she said, "Thanks." Maybe this is just me, but I don't see that I particularly deserved a thanks in this case. My opening the door only helped her out by pure coincidence, so I don't deserve any gratitude. And perhaps I should put "helped her out" in quotes, because I really think a whole unnecessary politeness system has formed around doors. It almost annoys me when someone pauses to hold a door open for me that I could have just stuck my hand out and pushed to open if it was closed. Stop wasting your time! It's not polite, it's condescending! I do like it when it's one of those many locked doors that I have to fumble around to get the key every time, but other than that, don't bother.

On to more important things. I got an A- today on my midterm for the highest level math class I'll ever take, yee-haw! I thought that that was the grade that I would get in the most optimistic of circumstances, but now looking at it I can see that without one fairly small misunderstanding on one question it would have been a straight A. So that's generally encouraging.

Other classes...American Voices seems to be moving along ok. First assignment in there got an 80-ish grade, was not too happy with that and really didn't agree with it but tried to conform to the suggestions in the next one, which appears to have been moderately succesful. I'm probably looking at a B in the class right now, which I believe I can count on being knocked up at least to a B+ because I seem to participate more in class than the average student, which should work in my favor.

In the stats math class, there's a take home that I suppose I must do tonight, but I dread even looking at it. Somehow I never get anything lower than 95 on the homework, but I don't trust that that carries over to the midterms by any means. Gotta face the music I guess.

German is German. Heading for an A- or B+ there for sure.

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