Membership to the International Honor Society!!!

Today I received a personal invitation to accept membership to the International Honor Society of the Two-Year College. I am "among a select few students who have earned an invitation to join the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society."

Yay!!! 

A membership fee shouldn't be concerning to me, should it?

Back To School!!

"Back to school. Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight. Oh! Back to school... back to school... back to school. Well, here goes nothing." - Billy Madison 


It doesn't even phase me that summer school JUST ended, haha. Fall semester starts on Monday, wooo hooo! I'm so excited! There are very few people in my immediate circle of friends that are as excited or are excited period as me regarding school. (Maybe I should change that. . . my inner circle I mean. Shouldn't I surround myself with other motivated people?) This semester is going to be a challenge for me, and that should probably scare me, but it doesn't. .  yet anyway, ask me in two weeks. Although I couldn't get into a science course dammit!, I was lucky enough to snag five classes, including two honors. Oh, by the way, I just got accepted into my school's the honors program. Hell yah! The privileges afforded upon completion of the required honors units are quite handsome, so it feels great to have been accepted. More on the honors program later. 

*Aahumm* Back to my excitement. I bought all of my books last month, and have even contemplated getting a jump start on reading the texts. It sounded like a great and proactive idea, but I quickly changed my mind when I remembered that many times a professor/course will start on a random chapter :( That idea went down the drain. . . along with my diet, but that's a different story. I did flip through the textbooks to get more of an idea of what to expect though. 

School AND work five days a week should be interesting, challenging, fun, hard, draining, rewarding, frustrating, etc. but I know I can and will maintain my 4.0 gpa! Wish me luck! 

The Difference Between an A and an A+

Or should I say the NOT SO difference? :( 


So, summer school grades are posted and I received an A+ in both classes. Woo hooo! It felt amazing to get my first (and second) A+ of my college career, but then it quickly dawned on me that those pluses didn't mean a thing. 


Why oh why is it that an A and an A+ both equal a 4.0 yet an A- gets you a 3.7? Booooo! 


Most professors don't do the whole plus/minus thing, but I'm still nervous about ever receiving and A- and it bringing my gpa down. I just feel that if a - hurts you, then a + should help you. Right?


Overall, I'm happy that I have a 4.0, a part of me though wishes those pluses gave me a 4.3.