Been a while since I've visited your blog! I&#...

2011-10-20T23:14:57.192-07:00

Been a while since I've visited your blog! I'm impressed by the fact that you're able to keep up with the posts after school started. I've completely given up trying to follow any sort of consistent post schedule with all the activities going on.

I don't know if you ever published what school you were going to, but I'm at Booth right now and we have the grade non-disclosure policy. And in my opinion, the whole grade nondisclosure thing doesn't mean anything. If an employer really wants to find out what you're grades are, they'll just ask questions like whether you made dean's honor list or something, to get a ballpark idea of how classes are going.

There are literally tons of loopholes around this issue. But I also agree with the point that most of the students here are pretty smart and hard working, so seems like most of the 2nd years i've talked to get good grades regardless.

Hope school is going well for you!

Grades aren't the only way to encourage rigor,...

2011-10-17T11:55:49.267-07:00

Grades aren't the only way to encourage rigor, because professors can still hold students to high standards.

I went to a small school where that was the case. I remember one student who came to a professor asking why she got so many bad comments when she was certain she wrote a great paper. Turns out, she did. What happened was the professor took the essay to her colleagues to tear up, since she couldn't find much to criticize herself.

So while students don't worry about grades, professors can still challenge them.

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