Oh My God, Part II

So I've been getting some of my final grades in, and so far things look good to be one of my most successful semesters in the history of forever.

Human Physiology (!): 93.35% A (No A- crap, a nice SOLID A)
Cell Biology: A
Organic Chemistry: A
Organic Chemistry Lab: A
Civil War and Reconstruction: A

I still have yet to hear about my final grades in Ancient Egyptian History, Anthropology, Physics, and Ecology. Things look good for Ray to have a 4.0 GPA while carrying one of the most massive credit loads in the history of forever.

So, only four classes left.

I think I should expand on my sequence of seriously deranged posts because I have been all ARGH all day. First, I was all upset because I had no idea how I did on my physiology final, on which I ended up getting a 93%, so Ray got an A in the class by seriously 4 points. Anyway, Ray is pleased with that now.

Essay for AEH was kind of argh as well, but I tightened that up and fixed it and all jazz.

Then after that, things kind of went downhill. By kind of I meant REALLY badly downhill. As in catastrophically downhill.

So far downhill that involved me eating a pint of ice cream, about 1/5 a bag of chips, a lot of high calorie carbo bars, and an apple. I thought I should throw something health-like in there.

I don't know how much I want to go into it, but basically, what happened was that I went outside and found Cece and complained about my terrible nature of existence, and then went up to find an office with no occupancy. So I came home and sent and email that went like this:

Dr. Wolkow,I went to your office earlier today (around 1:30 PM) and you were not there. I do not plan on going by campus again until Wednesday or Thursday.I appreciate your willingness to discuss with me your reasoning behind the department award, and I understand that there are criteria beyond grades that help determine the most deserving candidate. That being said, if you consider that there is something particularly serious that you believe I should know, then I would be willing to come into your office at some point of your convenience. I appreciate that you considered me for such a distinction.Sincerely,Raymond

I get one back two hours later that goes like this:


Hi Raymond, I do not pretend to know you or your personality from a one semester course in a large classroom...that said, I have known many other really intelligent students who fail after college because they do not express themselves. I know that you could have added a lot to the class and chose not to. Whatever your reasons, I just encourage you to think differently. Participate and share your thoughts with others, because the ideas of students like you will determine where our world is headed. If it means anything, I have never said anything like this to another student before, This is just a letter of encouragment, and I look forward to seeing you around! Tom


Um, omg. I don't know what to say, still after five hours of having this.

Basically, I'm not too happy right now. There's so much I could say, but in the end I'm just defeated.

I still want my final though, and I'm trying to convince Kristina to get mine for me.

I think I'm going to let this stir for a while before I try to determine how or even if I should respond. It's so confusing.