The Geek Brewery

Blogging is fun, right? But beware, excessive and addictive blogging is dangerous for student bloggers like me. See how my blogging preoccupation affected my grades.

Here’s a portion of my report card, click to see the fullview:

Interpretation

Our grading system is a stanine system in which the grade 1.00 is the highest while the lowest attainable grade is 5.00. The passing grade is 2.50 therefore a grade lower than 2.5 (e.g. 2.75 or 3.00) is considered as a substandard grade.

From the figure above, you can see that I am a consistent UNO student for my elective. Anyway, my elective is Embedded Systems (electronics using microcontrollers). I’m also a consistent 1.25er of Computer Science, go CISCO! Most of my other subjects went down, huhuhu.

Rationalization (defense mechanism)

FYI: I always get low grades because of assignments and lab reports. Luckily, Computer Science and Embedded systems subjects seldom have those. I did not submit a single assignment for the third quarter. I have submitted less than half of all third quarter lab reports for Chem, Bio and Physics. What more do I expect, a failing grade right?

On Math 5′s case in which I got a substandard grade, I lost my exercise notebook and repeated all the exercises a day before the exam. I only got less than half correct answers for my repeat exercises cause I was lazy enough to answer them all in a limited time.

Now, that’s the effect of losing control of your preoccupation. Beware: blogging can give you a failing grade.

Bragging Part

My adviser always emphasized in my card that I was a really smart boy, just too lazy to pass a subject. Here’s a cap of my teacher’s remarks:

Again, it’s on the learning NOT the grade. I believe I’m a lot smarter than most of my classmates. Actually, got a very high mark on my NCAE’s GSA (general scholastic aptitude) where I got a 99+.

Here’s an inventory of my 99+ (GSA):
Scientific Ability: 99+
Reading Comprehension: 98
Mathematical Ability: 99
Verbal Ability: 99

LESSON LEARNED: Just like vices, do it in moderation.

I promise to do my assignments, once in a while.

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