Huh…wouldn’t have guess this
StumbleUpon brought me to Wikipedia’s page on the “Latin honors” for college degrees. Not only did I find out Australia has two different levels of failure (off the “grade” page…and here I must interject: “WTF, mate?”), but the “see also” section also provided me with this.
I found this rather interesting, considering that for the majority of colleges, the U of I’s cutoff points for summa/magna/cum laude are higher than all of these listed. Maybe ‘cause UI is such a small school (SMALL SAMPLE SIZE = RANGE RESTRICTION) they felt the need to have such high cutoff points…who knows.
Haha, sorry, I like this kind of stuff. Had they provided more colleges, I would have made some sort of map to see how the different regions of the US compared in honors cutoffs. Bah.
Also this, ‘cause I found it freakishly funny (and interesting), especially since they were all cracking up the entire time:
Today’s song: Echo by Girls Can’t Catch
RIP future
Follow up to yesterday:
I have also calculated that my getting a B in Nonparametric Stats will lower my cumulative GPA to a 3.969. One goddamn THOUSANDTH below the summa cum laude cutoff. And no, they don’t round up to the hundredth, in case anyone was wondering, so I won’t even get to wear my gold cord.
Can this get any better?
And people never believe me when I tell them I’m a fuck up.
(2-years-later edit: wow, I forgot how much this month just absolutely sucked.)
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