As I’ve said before, God is so faithful!!! And it’s SO true!!! He’s amazing!!!
Ever since I joined the GEOG 103 class in Lawson 161 about a week later than everyone else because I changed classes, i had been studying for this map quiz where Dr. Weinert would give us 10 pages of blank maps of different regions of the world (here’s the order: Europe, the region around Russia that stretched down to Turkey, Middle East, Africa, North America, South America + Latin/Central America, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Australia/New Zealand area).
The “quiz” was going to be worth 200 pts, and there were 163 countries that we had to memorize. Dr. Weinert said that since most of the time, the grades turn out badly, we had the opportunity to retake it but that if we did, the new grade would replace the old one, regardless of whether it was higher or lower than the original grade.
Anyway, I sat in front of a computer for 2 hrs just noting down all the location on these practice maps that she said that we had the option to print off from Blackboard, which was a website that some SIU professors use to communicate with students about assignments/grades.
We took it last Friday, September 10, 2010, and Dr. Weinert told us in class today that our grades were posted on Blackboard. I was really nervous b/c I had studied like crazy on Thursday night, starting from after dinner (8:30) until (1:30). Then on Friday morning, I studied while I was eating breakfast and in the 30 min that i was on campus before my class started. (I had a piano class in between breakfast and GEOG 103 for those of you who were wondering about the gap in timing…)
She showed the ranges of grades, and in a room of 175 people (I looked up the number on SalukiNet. I didn’t actually count heads, I’m too lazy for that haha). There were only around…20-25 people who got A’s, around 8-15 of those got an A+. 6 people got B’s, and quite a few people got C’s and D’s…and a SHOCKING amount (at least for me) got F’s…By F, I mean, 50-0. More people got in the 30-0′s range than in the 50-40′s range, which is kind of scary to see…
Anyway, so I just checked my grade, and I had a 200/200!!! Hallelujah, I don’t have to retake it!!
haha
Thank you lis for letting me borrow that globe from your house!!
Thank you so much to those who were praying for me!! ^^
Okay, now time for a “random” story pertaining to the quiz. Like I said, I was studying during the 30 min that I had before class. After about 15 min, they opened up the lecture hall, so several other students that had arrived early (and were also studying) and I all went inside. This guy sitting two seats away from me asked me how much i had memorized, so i told him that i had all of them done. He was like “wow…that’s impressive. I still have 25 or so to memorize.” Now, just from this guy’s facial expression, you can kind of tell that he thinks the whole memorizing different countries thing is pointless. Funniest of all, the next thing he said to me was “I don’t see why we have to memorize a bunch of pointless countries that aren’t even worth mentioning. I mean like, Singapore? Where in the world is THAT supposed to be? It’s probably some poor country that doesn’t even compare to the US.”
For those of you who know me, that remark didn’t sit too well…
Anyway, so i just stared at him and said “Uh…I’m from there, and for your information, we’re in the top of the world for Math and Science.” He kept his mouth shut for the rest of the time until class starts. haha XD
- Rin
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