It's been a couple of weeks since my layoff and all is good in my world. There's been a few job leads but I am not overly concerned about how they turn out. I've taken my time to finish up my final paperwork to complete my departure from my company, clean up the house a bit and just relax a bit.
One other thing I've been doing is researching information on graduate school. There's one program that I had looked at during my last layoff back in April 2009. However, when I got rehired at my old job in September of 2009, I didn't look at the graduate school program again. With the layoff hitting me again though, I am seriously looking at graduate school again.
In doing my research yesterday, I found out that the graduate program I was considering requires a 3.0 GPA. That was a bit of a downer as I knew my overall GPA from college was around 2.86. In digging a little further, I found out that the graduate program was just looking at my last 60 semester units. That made feel a little better as I had done better in the last couple of years before I graduate than my earlier years.
I had pull up my old transcripts from college and upon doing the math, my overall GPA from my last 62 units was.........2.99! That was pretty frustrating and got me to think "What if I had done better in this one class or another class?" Alas, those thoughts didn't stick around long as there's nothing I can do about it now.
However, in reviewing my old college transcript, it did bring up an old memory I hadn't thought about in a while (and it could have made a difference in my last 62 unit GPA). There was a class that I had received a grade of C in that I should have gotten at least a B instead.
What had happened was the lecturer graded the class on a curve. Usually, when a class is graded on a curve, it's to help the students on the lower end of the grading scale to pass. I think most of my fellow classmates thought the same. However, when the final grades were distributed after our final, I was given a C grade despite scoring 85% (or somewhere around there) in the class. Basically, our lecturer had went on a curve and RAISED the standards since the class was not terribly difficult.
I wasn't the only one who got stuck with a C in the 85% range. A bunch of classmates tried to complain but it didn't get us anywhere as the lecturer had warned us upfront he was grading on a curve. Who would have though that class could have implications over 13 years later?
All complaining aside though, with a 2.99 GPA, it looks like I will have to take a class, get an A, and get my GPA about 3.0 to apply for the graduate program I was looking at. While this is a little frustrating, it is also a benefit. I haven't been in school in a while so taking a class to boost my GPA will also get me back into school mode.
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