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The sense of relief I should and will feel is on hold for the time being. Instead, I have the post-exam "How I screwed that exam up" blues. The sourness was somewhat alleviated by lunch with beer with two of my classmates immediately afterwards.
At first I thought I did OK. Then I remembered how I struggled to find the standard error for the difference of two proportions. I think I just wrote "± SE." This might have been acceptable if the instructor had not placed the formula on the front page of the exam. So now I am thinking that a B is the very best I can do now in the course.
I remember professors telling me that grades do not matter as much in graduate school. They do matter as much or more, to the extent that they affect future funding possibilities. What I think the profs meant was that graduate students simply stop caring about grades, since they will be irrelevant once grads are on the job market.
Posted by Underblog at May 5, 2005 6:29 AM
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