{"id":89,"date":"2000-01-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/01\/21\/scholarly_data\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:46:14","slug":"scholarly_data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/01\/21\/scholarly_data\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarly Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overachiever fails out of grad school!<\/strong> Yes, it’s true. I got my report card from Pratt today, the one with all the classes I decided to blow off as a means of effectively quitting grad school. In a way, it was very cathartic to just let those grades go. I\u2019ve never failed a class before — I\u2019ve never allowed<\/i> myself to fail a class before. (Considering where I am today, it’s a little funny that my only low grades in high school were for Computer science and Algebra II. so much for my nerd credentials.) It was a good feeling when I realized that a bad transcript wasn’t going to haunt me the rest of my life, not when I\u2019m actually more than capable of learning and doing well on my own. What a revelation: Grades actually ARE just numbers! <\/p>\n

For the record:<\/p>\n

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spring 1999 Courses<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Grade<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Credits<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Typography II<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

A<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3.0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Visual Communications I<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

F<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3.0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Communications Technology I<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

F<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3.0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Corporate Image Planning<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

A<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3.0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Fall 1999 Courses<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Grade<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Credits<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Communications seminar<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

A<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

3.0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

History of Communications Design<\/td>\n

\n

Incomplete<\/td>\n

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2.0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Cumulative Grade Point Average: 2.0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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If you’re familiar with the GradCommD program at Pratt<\/a>, you’ll notice that I failed my basic requirements but aced all my upper-level courses. Basically, this is because when push came to shove and I still had to work full-time while going to school, I devoted my energy to the more challenging, more interesting stuff and blew off the irritating stuff they made me take. Oops, my bad.<\/p>\n

I think I may take a stab at finishing the work for the history class. The professor was a fun old queen who I liked a lot, and who wants me to submit the one paper I finished (on Piet Zwart<\/a>) to the Pratt library since they don’t have any good reference materials on him. I wouldn’t kill me to write a couple of other small papers over the course of the next few months. After all, I certainly like reading up on designers and whatnot. Maybe I’ll finally write that essay about Art Chantry<\/a> that I\u2019ve been meaning to for years now. Art Chantry totally saved my life as a designer, but that\u2019s a story for another day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overachiever fails out of grad school! Yes, it’s true. I got my report card from Pratt today, the one with all the classes I decided to blow off as a means of effectively quitting grad school. In a way, it was very cathartic to just let those grades go. I\u2019ve never failed a class before … Continue reading “Scholarly Data”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultranerdy","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69707,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/69707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}