I think that I am going to have to eat my words now. All of the things that I said about chemistry might be incorrect. Now don't get me wrong, I hate the class to death and I don't think that there is anything that can change that, but I think I might like my teacher a little bit more. All semester I have been getting between a 60% and 65% on the tests, even after studying for 15 hours straight, but my teacher has been doing this class so long that he plans for low grades like mine. Here are all of the ways that he is making the class's grade higher.

1) We have a pass fail test, which is suppose to be review (it wasn't for me), but upon passing it with an 80%, we get 100% on that test, and that test is 12.5% of my overall grade.

2) He knows that it is hard to get up for an 8:30 class on Fridays, so every Friday he has a one question quiz which is turning out to be extra credit. Overall in the semester, we have the potential of getting 30 points of extra credit that goes on our test grades, and 30 points equals 30% boost in test grades.

3) On top of the extra credit that we got from the quizzes, he is now curving all of the test grades to 100. So when I got a 68/112, 70/108 and 65/100, I now have a 68/100, 70/100, and 65/100.

4) He doesn't think that the final should hurt us, so if including the final in our grade would drop our cumulative grade, then he won't count it. Since I have about an 83% in the class right now (with all of the curving... and yes I can't believe it either), I would have to get higher than an 83% on the final for it to count (which almost is a guarentee not to happen). Getting a 100% on the final would only bring me up to an 85%.

Talk about eating my words huh? This is awesome. I think I could like that guy... but I am still never taking chemistry again. I have already had his scope on my chest once, and I am not going to roll the dice again. Whew... my weekend just got that much better. Who is up for some Counter Strike now?