Reflecting on Midterm Grades

Well it’s hard to believe but I’m already more than half way through my first semester as a college freshmen. I was a little disappointed with my midterms in general. I was expecting them to be a bit more formal. I hear my other college friends at different universities freaking about their exams and I haven’t had one (yet).
For my computer class, we learn a new concept every week and work on a project that we later post to our homepage. My midterm was just another assignment along with all my previous grades. My anthropology midterm consisted of a paper and all of my previous grades plus attendance. My psychology exam hasn’t happened yet. (We’re taking it on Halloween and it’s my only formal exam). My statistic exam consisted of nothing but previous grade (which I’m not complaining about because I’m terrible with math. And you can view my Inquiry midterm on this blog.
My grades were all pretty good. I received B+s for both computer and anthropology, A for stat, psych is N/A and Inquiry I also received an A (not for the video, it was based on previous grades). I mean that’s pretty good for college level, but I’m still a bit disappointed.

I should’ve and could’ve tried harder in my computer class. I’m not technologically advanced and lost little points on small factors I forgot to incorporate into my assignments. Another thing that upset me was my anthropology grade. I got 11 out of 15 on my paper. It’s not too bad, but it’s not what I strived for. I lost points because I labeled the premises wrong. Okay, I’ll take that without question. I was a bit confused about the differences, tried to get help from the book, but it just confused me more, so I guessed.  What angered me was she took points off because my evaluations of each argument weren’t long enough. Yeah I know each evaluation was supposed to be one page and each argument in standard form plus references was supposed to be a page each. That added up to 4 pages, the maximum for the paper. But my paper went well into 6 pages because each argument was almost two pages each. If I kept everything in my paper I would’ve had 6+ pages. I cut out and butchered my essay to fit her requirements. But what can I do? Next paper I’m just going to include everything that’s necessary and not worry so much about the length restraints.

Other than that I have no complaints. I’m proud of what I did. It seems to be working for me. I just need to try a bit harder in computers and anthropology. Other than that I’m satisfied with my overall results. If I could offer any advice it would be to work hard all semester because you never know which professors will consider your overall work into your midterm grade. If you slack off then, it’ll end up hurting you twice.