Spring 2009 Final Grades

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I just got my final grade for my Spring Semester 2009 at Mason

C- in Macroeconomics Principles (Much better than my previous grade I received in Spring 2008)
A- in Comparative American Federalism
A+ in The Nonprofit Sector
A in Conflict, Trauma and Healing

The GPA is 3.50 for semester and my overall GPA is 3.39. My GPA for Major is 3.43 so I am not doing bad at all coming into my senior year at Mason. Plus I made Dean's List again for the second time in a row in this academic year.

Congratulations -- those are terrific grades. What do you want to do after college?

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I am considering to apply for Grad School in Special Education at Mason since my friend, Megan recommend that course. I been thinking about doing Special Education for sometime since I can be a great asset to any school system.

Glad that you're going for that grad program -- we can use all the good people who actually KNOW what's going on in that area!

Actually I know a few people in Special Education that know what is going like some of my teachers in High School and some of my friends who worked with Special Ed students.

Update/Correction:

Final Grades for Spring 2009:

GEO 3321 (Energy Resource Management)--C
GEO 4338 (Land Use Planning)--B
GEO 4321 (Planning Methods and Procedures)--B
GEO 3449 (Population Geography)--A

My GPA holds steady at a solid 3.0

sensation and perception lab A
cognitive neuroscience A-
phonology A
introduction to cognitive science A-
senior thesis cognitive science IC (incomplete, extended until 7/22)

cumulative GPA: 3.7

GRE score is way too low to go to grad school in my field, so i don't even know why i bothered this semester as all that matters now is just getting the piece of paper so i can show it to a prospective employer. i figure i'm going to leave the country as soon as i graduate this summer and move to third world columbia to work on my dad's avocado farm doing manual labor with him for a few years to figure out what i really want from life. i'm like a dog lost in the desert right now.

Cog Sci major? your doing a senior thesis on Cog Sci and taking intro at the same time. At my school intro is required as the prereq for a all upper division classes.
I took Intro to Cog Sci too, got B+, my class was broken into 4 different subunits Philosophy, Psychology, Nueroscience, and Artificial Intelligence. What was your Intro class like?

So what is your cumulative GPA since I gathered that your 3.0 is the GPA for the spring term.

Also what is your GPA for Major?

It was broken down almost exactly like your class: phil, linguistics, psych, neuroscience, computation, neural networks, and dynamical systems. Overall, it wasn't the easiest class I've taken, actually. We spent a lot of time on neural networks and the calculations involved get pretty hairy once you get to 3 layer recurrent networks.

Yeah, I'm a cog sci major. I worked it out with my adviser in such a way that I took all the upper division courses before taking intro to cog sci. I've found that it had little to no effect on my success in upper division courses, because the way it's set up in my school, this is the ONLY cog sci course (besides the thesis) offered to begin with. The upper division courses all have their own prereqs which you had to take.

It sounds like your class was definetly harder then mine. My class covered those 4 different units each. Since their wasnt much time to cover each unit, the profs didnt really go that much into depth, like they just skimmed the surface. I got a B+ without working too hard, my first class I havent had to work so hard for a good grade.
We barely covered nueral networks, in the AI section the prof just told us what it was about, and taught us some very very basic calculations.