Quick Review

With your schedule pretty well set and classes starting promptly for this term time will soon   be at a premium.

Friends, events, coursework, family, personal maintenance including your job will once again be constant pulls on your time and attention.

Before that all happens and keeps happening Planet College suggest a brief, very brief, time out, not more than 10-15 minutes. During this time out do this. Look at your grade report from last term. You've probably already reviewed it, maybe even a couple of times, with the now familiar combination of anguish and delight and possibly even relief with which you have viewed previous grade reports.

For this review, two things; first, is it satisfactory.? Well if you're still in school and haven't been dis-enrolled then it is at least that satisfactory. Second, you're lowest grade, what was it? If it was passing and you don't have to repeat the course, then that grade is probably really also satisfactory. But is it really?

As you have progressed toward you graduation your skills and discretion regarding classes, school, and just about everything else has been refining. Your expectations of your efforts have been gradually rising.  A bumpy rise but still rising.

So, that lowest grade? - What could you have done to improve it? What would you do now?  Drop sooner because you just did not have the time? Switch sections because a friend said her instructor was 'easy'?  How about attendance?  Yes.  How often did you miss? Simple, obvious and often overlooked.  If you made every session or at least most every session, turned in the assignments and took the final- then it was probably just simply a difficult course for you. You've had this before and will again during your time on Planet College.

But if you made every session you could, unless there was something else you wanted to do, skipped a few assignments here and there and blew through the final in ten minutes because you had to pack for home- then the grade you got- if it was passing- may have been a gift.

Only you know any of this.  The past is past and might now only one big catalog of lessons learned, if you learned them.

There, that ten minutes was well spent.  Here is the Planet College reminder;  In order to graduate you have to go to class.