Reminiscing On a Quarter

Ow. This quarter ended badly. My final grades are as follows:

Zooarchaeology - A-
Biology 2C - B
Art History 1B - B-
O. Chem - C

I guess I did a little better than I expected. When I calculated my Zooarch grade, it said I should have had a B+. But the final curve gave me an A-. My Bio should have been a B- but due to the standards of the teachers, I got a B. And I fully expected to get a C or lower in Art History but I'm very glad I got a B-. =] O. Chem was pretty much as I expected.

The only thing is, I did EFFING HORRIBLE on all of my finals. Most of them I got D's or even F's on. The only reason my grades weren't too horrible is because of the strong beginning and middle that I held out for as long as I could. Also curves were helpful. Near the end I just sort of petered out and let everything fall into ruin around Finals. I really wish I could hold it up for the entire quarter and AVOID GETTING A C, AND GETTING ALL A'S FOR AT LEAST ONE QUARTER. >___<

B-'s aren't good in Uni either. The A- is worth only 3.7, and the B- only 2.7. The B is a 3.0, etc. +'s are worth .3 more. So a B+ would be 3.3. But I didn't get any. My grades were similar to last quarter's the only difference being I took one more class than I did last quarter.

I'm terrified of this upcoming quarter. My classes are:

Physics Part 1
O. Chem Part 2
Bio - Genes and Gene Expression
EVE - Intro to Ecology

They're all hard upper division classes. My adviser said I should drop a class. My violin teacher said I should drop a class. Everyone I ask says I should drop a class to have an easier quarter, except my dad. >__< But to be honest if I really wanted to drop a class, I would have done it anyway with or without my dad's permission. That's partially why I get such horrible grades. I like challenges too much, and I always take hard schedules just for fun. I still don't really take grades and school really seriously, I think.

I'm still just here to learn. Not to get perfect scores. I don't think I'll grow out of that. But straight A's would still be nice. I just need to learn how to maximize and utilize my time and brain power. I need a course on learning how to not procrastinate or something, and how to get better study habits. xP With out a strong base, my tower falls or something, right? That stuff always sounded useless to me, but it's starting to make sense now, and I should probably do that.

Anyway, this is Spring Break, and I'm now working so... bye.