Ioavva Re: --------- I got a flippin' A grade!!!! (in neuro-psychological immunology) --------- Boy. That is great, and in such a difficult subject, double great!
I was in the 8 grade before I got the first "A" I can remember. I did not like school for social reasons. Kids can say the meanest things. School seemed like so much of a pecking ordet thing. Almost everyone putting someond down so they could be a little higher, only one winner.
In college I realised everyone could be a winner, depending on "YOUR" effort, and it did not matter who was on top. As a mater of fact, anyone could be at the top if they had the motivation and put forth the effort. After I graduated from college (1990) I discovered grades even counted less. Some of the B and C students became the most successful workers in the community.
Congratulations Jo. I bet there is more in your soul than you ever thought there was 10 years ago. I made a comment to one of my professors indicating that somehow I was dumb when it came to certain subjects. She pointed out that what most people label as dumb is actually a lack of exposure, knowledge, and pracricing of a certain subject. She had been through this with many other older students. She had a little skit to prove her point.
She asked me some Phd. type of question she knew I would not know the answer to, explained the terms, how they related the question, gave a practical example, asked me to explain what I heard her say, what the concept meant to me, and finally said that I had a Phd's understanding of the subject. She said if I want to earn my Phd. (her way to motivate students) all I had to do is learn thousands of little bits of infrmation just like she just presented, stick to it until I made it to my next little goal like passing the next test, and keep going from there to whatever my ultimate goal might be.
