Grades

    I need a lot of work for the coming semesters for me to reach a cum laude honor by the conclusion of my degree program next year. I would probably need to have a semestral average of 1.5 for the coming two semester to meet up the cum laude requirements. It would be hard but I have to try.

    The problem I have observed from my studying habits and attitudes is that I always complain before working on anything. This happens every time. In the end, when deadlines come, I could see that no matter how I hate doing these 'stuff' (as how I perceive them), I would still be still obliged to comply by the rules and requirements to pass the courses. In the end, I am the loser. I miss blessings and opportunities that should have been taken advantage of in the name of academic success.

    I dismiss the dogma that grades are not the true basis of knowledge and learning. At the end of the day, who becomes successful? They are those who were able to get high grades. A cum laude title in the resume is an advantage to employability in the competitive arena of industries, office spaces and academes. Who wins after all?

    I am not suggesting that we extremely set aside everything, but still grades are the most important things to worry about in college. It doesn't matter how you gain them, but the question is: would one be able to get them? I completely sound like a liberal.

    There are of course, faults and dents that the universities conceal behind the facades of center-of-excellence titles and traditions. These are in terms of the nature of the learning process (the means of pedagogy) that student's experience. Most students comply. Some do not. Those who don't are still divided to two. They are (1) those who have learned enough to know and articulate the imperfections, and (2) those who are just… like me… whiners. Without a little effort of trying, dissent has been an excuse for not doing anything.

    At this point I consider the fact that, grades are the most important reified artifact of ones whole scholastic performance because, in fact a person can not see every aspect of another in a small span of time. Grades have the formal credibility of explaining scholastic performance. Accordingly, most people we will meet, from different points in our lives, won't really care about the other things because if truth be told, they really don't have to.