Whining undergrads
Friday, December 17th, 2004 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinturnerSince either I failed to post properly, or, like one of my other posts, it was deleted by the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
academics_anon moderator, I'm taking this to my own journal.
This is a response to my comment, which was a response to this girl throwing a hissy fit because she got a B- after "all i had done for this woman" ("this woman" being her professor, and "all i had done" being write a few extra essays for her portfolio at the professor's request).
1. for the average student, a B- is not a poor grade. for an academic, who enjoys achieving and carries a 3.8 GPA, a B- is absolutely a poor grade.
Now I may be hopelessly out of touch with contemporary American college culture, but I don't think getting a 3.8 GPA makes you an academic any more than getting a gold star from your kindergarten teacher does. What makes you an academic is doing original research and getting it published, which is why I don't call myself an academic outside certain contexts (e.g. academia vs. the so-called real world).
academics_anon moderator, I'm taking this to my own journal.This is a response to my comment, which was a response to this girl throwing a hissy fit because she got a B- after "all i had done for this woman" ("this woman" being her professor, and "all i had done" being write a few extra essays for her portfolio at the professor's request).
1. for the average student, a B- is not a poor grade. for an academic, who enjoys achieving and carries a 3.8 GPA, a B- is absolutely a poor grade.
Now I may be hopelessly out of touch with contemporary American college culture, but I don't think getting a 3.8 GPA makes you an academic any more than getting a gold star from your kindergarten teacher does. What makes you an academic is doing original research and getting it published, which is why I don't call myself an academic outside certain contexts (e.g. academia vs. the so-called real world).
