For the best answers, search on this site shorturl.im/c2Xt8I already explained my school's grading system, but I did leave out that some departments change their standards. For example, the Spanish department at my school has changed the grading standards so that 92-100 is an A but 80-91 is a B. After taking two Spanish classes, I have really HATED this choice by the department, but I sc ɾÄ
ÖŅ½ d by both semesters with 93s! I feel like having the grading scale that your university uses would just add an unnecessary amount of stress. I have always been a straight A student but I have always had 90-100 for an A/4.0. Congratulations on your straight A's though! Yayyy for Lark! š (I made straight A's this year too!!) Bonus questions: Is it sad that I already had to go check my student account to see what classes I took last semester? I already can't remember! The most interesting class I took the whole year was Linguistics. It was taught by a professor who was so enÉ”ÉÉ”ed and just loved language so she made the class extremely fun and the material was very interesting to me. I learned to look at language from a different perspective and it really is fascinating to think of the origins of language and the functions it serves. My favorite class from this past semester was probably "Many Nations of Native America" because it was challenging and required me to do a lot of research that I enjoyed. I took the honors section and was happily surprised at the discussions we had. I have used little tidbits of information from that class in a lot of my conversations since that class just because I live really close to many reservations. Most first-year students live on campus but after that the majority get apartments. There are many people who live in-state so I personally know a ridiculous amount of people who just commute every day. I will be one of them! I lived on campus my first year but the price is just not worth it for me since I have a car with decent gas mileage and three homes nearby that I can choose to live in. My dad lives about 40 minutes from campus, my grandma lives 15 minutes from campus, and my mom is moving to a house that is 10 minutes from campus. So it just makes sense for me to commute. There are a lot of drawbacks to not living on campus though. It will be harder to be involved in clubs and other extracurriculars because I don't have a place I can go between my noon class and my 7 PM meeting. All student housing on campus is dormitory style. There is one dorm that has suites (a bathroom between two rooms) but the rest are all community style where two roommates live and there are typically three bathrooms on each floor. My dorm was the newest honors housing on campus and the rooms were big but not functional. The rooms were extremely long rectangles, so the only way to set it up was to have the beds, desks and dressers along either wall. The closets went to the ceiling which would have been nice if it weren't for the fact that the ceilings were probably 9 or 10 feet tall and unreachable without an NBA player. I'm being more critical of my dorm now since I visited Northern Arizona University last weekend. I got to see a room in one of their dorms and it was perfect. Much smaller but with larger, more usable closets and a sink! To be fair, I had a really nice extremely spacious dorm and I was appreciative of that. But I'm still jealous and a tad bit bummed I didn't go to NAU. :p...
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