Glutton for Punishment

I am a fool. A smart fool, but a fool nonethe­less. I have will­ingly signed up for more classes.

My GPA is right on the bor­der. 3.745. If I take just one more class, I’m bumped up to Magna CL in the U.S., and firmly upper Second Class in the U.K. I was fine with set­tling with a 3.74 in order to JUST BE DONE. Until I was look­ing at my tran­script and think­ing, but, but, that 3.75 would be awfully pretty… so I decided, okay. One more class. Then I thought, hmm. If I take two more classes, then I can receive most of my nor­mal schol­ar­ships and grants and so on. That’d be an extra $1800 in the bank! Just for tak­ing another class!

Well, you can imag­ine my decision.

So I’m now reg­is­tered for two Fall classes this year. Rather than grad­u­at­ing in two months, I’ll grad­u­ate in December. That sounds dread­fully depress­ing, but a) $1800 extra in my bank (and liv­ing in a coun­try where I can live for $30 a month… just buy­ing DVDs and diet pepsi…), and b) a 3.755 as opposed to a 3.745? MSU’s online course selec­tion is piti­ful. It’s mostly account­ing classes and How To Run A Farm classes, and all of the inter­est­ing courses (his­tor­i­cal cos­tum­ing) have umpteen prerequisites.

Here are the two courses for which I’ve registered.

English 287: Life Stages in Literature. Read 8 books, write about said 8 books. Artsy-fartsy lit­er­a­ture BS, at which I’m pretty good. Even if the books are rubbish. 

Media 300: Film Analysis. Learn about the his­tory of film crit­i­cism. Critique movies. Yes, I can cope. Also, the $100 text­book is on sale at Amazon for $11. That always makes me happy.

There you go. Graduation is post­poned for fluff classes, for extra schol­ar­ship cash and cheap (okay, at $774 per class it’s not cheap) GPA infla­tion. Besides — I can use a lit­tle fluff now and then. If only Shakespeare II were taught online!