Rethinking Some Things

As I said a few days ago, I recently got a transcript of my grades and I've had to adjust a memory or two. There are some things I was remembering a tad differently than they actually happened.

For example, I thought I graduated with 21 credits, but I only counted 20 on my transcripts.

I thought I spent the entire sophomore year in Atlanta, but I spent a portion of it in Loudon because I pulled in some first semester grades from there.

I thought I had a class with BJ Stallings my junior year, but it was my freshman year. I have no idea why I was two years off.

I thought I had Miss Mize for two classes, but I had her for three; Journalism, American Government and Sociology. I think the last two only lasted a semester each, but either way, I didn't have her figured out as well as I thought because she dinged me on one of them. :)

I had PE three years and I thought it was just two. I made an A in it one year. How do you make an A in PE? I must have been better at Dodge Ball than I thought too. :)

I had Mr. Arp twice, I had forgotten World Geography. By the way, were Mr Arp and Mrs Arp related?

I had Industrial Arts one year and I thought I had it two. It felt like two.

I didn't take a single science related class after my sophomore year, which is a touch odd considering I worked a large portion of my life in meteorology.

I think my overall favorite class was Applied Math with Coach Dutton during senior year. Others I really liked were Miss Mize's classes and World History with Mr Arp during senior year, Science with Ms Stallings during freshman year and Biology with Mrs Marcus during sophomore year. The reason I enjoyed them so much was almost exclusively because of the people who took the classes with me. I liked Ms Stallings class because she was my favorite high school teacher.

I mentioned somewhere else in this blog that if I had it to do over again, I would try harder. I think my transcripts bear that out. My grades were never anywhere near outstanding, but there is a noticable drop between grade school grades and high school grades, and I think I know why. It was partly due to puberty and that little rebellion we all go through to some degree when we hit the teen years and we think we know more than most adults we come in contact with, and it was also due to the bad habit of doing just enough to get by, but mostly it was because high school was very social for me. Yes, I went to school to graduate, but a lot of the time that seemed to play second fiddle to being with my friends, dating, and the other forms of socializing.

But, at any rate, my number one job now is to make sure my 16 year old doesn't see those transcripts before he graduates, or else I'm going to have some explaining to do. :)