Academic Standards

Throughout my academic career at Georgetown I have often stopped to think about how my transcript looks. IT is such a mess. There is no real consistency in any of my grades, except for my writing courses and Spanish courses. I know that GPA is such a determining factor in many things after college, but I just don't care enough to be successful on having a high GPA. Many have told me that GPA is not the end of the world. Maybe I just feel like I have failed in college because I have not been so "successful" academically as I had been in high school. I just feel like being in college has taught me more than classes have. I mean I love to learn and sometimes I just wish I could just learn for the sake of learning vs. taking a course to fulfill a requirement or to get that 'A'. Maybe one day our system won't be so broken and students won't be measured on a scale that is inaccurately and doesn't measure personal growth or intellectual growth. By intellectual growth I mean real ideas, not just regurgitation of information and no mental stimulation whatsoever. Or maybe I'm just bitter that I suck at school and clearly cannot get the grades. Although I feel like I would excel in the real world as a person who can think for herself and analyze the world around her, not just a student who knows how to memorize information one day and then forget it the next. I'm not quite sure what direction I am taking with this blog but maybe I'll make sense of it some more after a bit more reflection. 

I think this is it for now.