<p>A lot of people asked about 181 sometime ago … so who here is in Harman’s class too? </p>
<p>And Shoebox, you totally misinterpret me lol … I don’t think I’ve met a single private school student, yet. But it’s like everyone else went to a magnet high school (definition: magnet high schools are high quality public schools) or something, and learnt to type extra-pretty colourful reports with advanced diagrams. (Contrast: 50% of my graduating class will be going to a two-year school, and trust me, community college in Maine is WAY worse than it is in Virginia.) </p>
<p>And don’t get me wrong, I’m not making excuses. Actually I’m more of remarking how it’s a baptism of fire. </p>
<p>But, they never said that you couldn’t use common sense (with a good reason, like, "It is unlikely that certain pennies would have had as much variation as .5 grams less than the average…) to remove outliers. I probably would have known if I knew everyone else went to the office hours to get the TAs to vet their reports, lol. (Still, I’m apparently one point below the average…). I thought I followed the rubric to the T, except for my omission of an abstract which was never penalised. I wouldn’t want the marking to be more lenient. Still, baptism of fire.</p>