what makes swarthmore special

interesteddad
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:08:33 +0000

you can feel bad about your grades cause you will never get an A (unless you become an alcoholic, drug addict and psycho)



When my daughter got an “A” on a paper or course at Swarthmore, she felt a sense of real accomplishment. I don’t think she ever felt “bad” about a grade except maybe her mid-term exam in advanced calc first semester freshman year. We know people taking the same course at the same time at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Georgia Tech who all pretty much had the same experience, so it doesn’t appear to be specific to Swarthmore.

Her final shadow grade in that course turned out to be her worst of the four years at Swarthmore and, rather than feel “bad” about it, she was dancing on cloud nine to have gotten it.