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jrjones9933
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09 Oct 2013, 8:33 pm

It ain't bragging if it's true. :wink:



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09 Oct 2013, 8:50 pm

i'm a sucker for good news. please share.



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09 Oct 2013, 9:50 pm

Considering all the griping that goes on around this website, I wanted to make a space for people to talk about their achievements. I can start, though.

I've completed 88 hours of college in the past two years with a 4.0 GPA! I am currently doing another 18 hour semester of challenging classes, and I have an A in all 5 so far!



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10 Oct 2013, 7:58 am

Rock on, Mr. Jones!



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10 Oct 2013, 4:32 pm

jrjones9933 wrote:
Considering all the griping that goes on around this website, I wanted to make a space for people to talk about their achievements. I can start, though.

I've completed 88 hours of college in the past two years with a 4.0 GPA! I am currently doing another 18 hour semester of challenging classes, and I have an A in all 5 so far!


Nice work!



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10 Oct 2013, 9:17 pm

I appreciate the praise, but I know other people have leapt some high hurdles too, and I'd really like to hear about your accomplishments.



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21 Dec 2013, 8:16 pm

The outcome was by no means certain, but I happened to get a calculus final where I knew how to solve every problem. I put another 4.0 semester on the books!



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29 Dec 2013, 3:51 pm

To brag: to use boastful language; boast... It still is.


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30 Dec 2013, 3:35 pm

jrjones9933 wrote:
The outcome was by no means certain, but I happened to get a calculus final where I knew how to solve every problem. I put another 4.0 semester on the books!


Congratulations! What is your major? It sounds like it is one of the harder ones, which makes the 4.0 GPA all the more impressive.



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30 Dec 2013, 4:41 pm

I'm working on a BS in Mathematics and a BBA in Finance. The letter grades don't have any modifiers, so any A counts as an A. I didn't intend for this thread to be about me bragging about my grades. I don't understand why no one else wants to crow a little about their accomplishments. :scratch:



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31 Dec 2013, 10:40 am

I love bragging :D

Basically, I'm in 4th year Psychology (BA) and my transcript so far is 14 A+'s and 6 A's. I can't give a GPA because our system is confusing and the scoring here is different from the States, but you get the idea. I don't have anything lower than an A on my transcript.


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31 Dec 2013, 11:08 am

Excellent work! I hope that I can keep it up until the last year like that.

My BS degree requires a minor, and I chose Psychology, focusing on Social Psychology and Research. I would recommend a Social Psych course for any Aspie in college who needs another elective. I have a little more understanding of people and groups, and I really look forward to taking Advanced SP next year.



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31 Dec 2013, 6:51 pm

Not to brag, but I'm alive!! ^_^

Woohooo! :mrgreen:

Congrats to you, jrjones9933! And congrats to MathGirl! Quite impressive, both of you. =)


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31 Dec 2013, 7:18 pm

jrjones9933 wrote:
Considering all the griping that goes on around this website, I wanted to make a space for people to talk about their achievements. I can start, though.

I've completed 88 hours of college in the past two years with a 4.0 GPA! I am currently doing another 18 hour semester of challenging classes, and I have an A in all 5 so far!


Awesome! You must have worked hard! What r u studying?



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31 Dec 2013, 7:35 pm

I'm working on a BS in Mathematics and a BBA in Finance.



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01 Jan 2014, 3:51 pm

sketches wrote:
Not to brag, but I'm alive!! ^_^

Woohooo! :mrgreen:

Congrats to you, jrjones9933! And congrats to MathGirl! Quite impressive, both of you. =)


That was the name of the game when I was in college the first time. It was incredible that I a.) got into a high-end public university (University of Washington) and b.) graduated on time with a ~3.2. My head was completely unscrewed and haphazardly glued back on back then.

I took 4 years off afterward and went back to school (at a different university, Southern Illinois) and got a M.S. with a 3.8 in a field I knew literally nothing about while acting like Colin Farrell the entire time.

[edit: to be clear, not "acting" like in films, but rather drinking and assholing my way across the midwest]

Yeah, as it turns out my head is still not screwed on properly, but I got a dope job out of it all and it's all good at this point.


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