Starting Summer
May 10th, 2008Forgive me for being busy lately, but final exams tend to take up time. The work I put in seems to have paid off as I aced three of the exams I took and performed adequately on the one I expected to perform just-adequately on, so there is no disappointment on my part. More than anything, I am relieved to have ended the semester as I expected to end it: with very good grades and a variety of new friends made. I had five classes this spring and took four finals, with one portfolio due in a poetry class in place of an exam. I wish I had been assigned more papers and portfolios than tests, but I did fine anyway. I simply am not fond of exams because I think they do not measure a student’s anything particularly well.
Now if you wonder why this entry is so brief, Dear Reader, since final exam week is over, I would answer that it is final exam celebration weekend. I will return in greater detail tomorrow, but for now I refer you to this article about Grand Theft Auto’s artistic and political value. Quote of the article? “I found that Grand Theft Auto actually offered a less sensational portrait of gangland and ghetto streets than the one put out by most cops, politicians, policymakers, and even academics.”