So… I had a hallmate first year… he ended his second semester first year w/ a 0.0 GPA… he was kicked out, but he blamed it on iron deficiency… I blamed it on him playing Command & Conquer Red Alert 24/7…
The rest of my hall talked about it a lot after he left… getting a 0.0 GPA would have been just as hard to get a 4.0 GPA… he was a shooting star to never be seen again!
Stephen White was happy to give out Cs
Yup, fair point. I was on my way to a C (or worse) in a lab and dropped it like it was hot.
I feel like there are/were some classes graded on a curve that hand out C’s. If I remember correctly, Beaches, Coasts and Rivers which was know as a gut was 1/3rd A’s, 1/3rd B’s and 1/3rd C’s (but no F’s).
I always felt like the engineering/med school kids had tough classes but could get A’s and my history prof was like, great paper, A minus. I also remember my E-school roommate getting like a 13 on a test and the curve making it an A.
Anyway, I digress!
Beaches Coasts and Rivers was NOT a gut! Shout out from the Cs section
I just remember him walking into class with a margarita in an erlenmeyer flask one day…
All of that resonates. I hated hated hated gut classes at UVa. They were often harder than their rep and featured profs trying to shed their rep. Plus they were filled with people who were there b/c they cared about their GPA so paradoxically, it was hard to get an A.
Also, continuing the digression, while I don’t know Stephen White (I had a visiting prof for Political Theory req.), visiting the Politics Dept website reminded me of one of my favorite profs at UVa - Herman Schwartz, and his webpage reminded me of why I loved the guy. In the place where the profs are meant to discuss their research interests, he says this: “The best way to see my research and teaching interests is to look at my CV, available by clicking the “CV” button.” My guy…
I got a 9 on a Calculus 2 test in the E-school… I went to class the next time to get my test back and our professor Vera Granlund gave anyone who was present that day an additional 10 points on their test… so I ended up w/ a 19… out of 100.
With the curve I got a B+… still confused to this day…
EDIT: I just looked up Vera Granlund and she died in 2007 at the age of 81… I feel so old. 
Or be old enough to have been in school before grade inflation!
Florida coached by Todd Holden the analytics nerd from San Francisco where they kept talking about his analytics but didn’t mention our 1 trillion missed bunnies at the rim as to why we lost lol.
We’re due some revenge for those two times they punked us out in the tourney.
Oh damn I might actually be able to go to this
Did the analytics say we were terrible finishers?
I started out in the E-school. Did fine grade-wise but decided I just liked the math part best and transferred. Anyway, my first semester in the Engineering version of literature I got a 40 on my first composition. Now, I don’t dispute that I deserved a bad grade (well, maybe a little bit since I think they try hard to shock you right away - ended up with an A), but how does anyone assign a numerical grade to an english paper? Only in the engineering school, I guess.
e-School handed out Cs and worse like candy during my day.
E-school was like playing Houston. It was a hard grind just to be competitive, and if you weren’t careful and working hard, you could get boat-raced right out of there. And frankly, a whole lot of classes just weren’t interesting. You were just trying to get through them. In 4 years of E-school and also another major in Econ, my favorite class was Cinegut. Watching movies with a critical eye was fun, unlike Calculus V.
My first semester in E-School was a disaster. Turns out I did not know how to study yet. That, and a cheap TI calculator that would put out a random string of 8s everytime I hit the button…the HP-11c I purchased over Christmas was a worthy investment.
Y’all should check out this De’Angelo Stevenson guy that does creative stuff for Virginia sports. I wish they’d post cool shit like this on the main accounts
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnRs8MXhnl4/?igshid=NDk5N2NlZjQ=
Cinegut with Sweaty Wally?
Yes. He was kind of creepy even back in the 80’s but still loved the class. Years later, took my kids on a college visit to UVA and popped in that auditorium and the dude was still teaching the same class (same movie even, “Mean Streets”) but with digital technology.