During my last semester of college, I was the same as I was the ones before, except added the job-hunt to it. I was taking classes online through Louisiana State University, working 4 days a week in banking, and on my day off cold-calling to accounting firms to try to find an accounting job. My first year of college I had an academic scholarship (the top one for my college), so stressed over grades. After that, I switched colleges, and stopped stressing over grades, started stressing over learning. I used classes from a mixture of schools to get through as cheap as possible and transferred them all in to one school that took everything from other school as pass/fail and based GPA solely off their institution, so my official graduation GPA was 4.0, but I had a lot of B's in my school career as a whole. 😉 My goal, though, was to learn, to pass, to maintain my bank job while graduating on time, and to move on with life. So, even though I had a high GPA for high school, I was OK with not worrying about my GPA in college. I'd say it was probably a 3.3 or so if I factored in all my classes. However, my last semester was the same as all the others after my freshman year: wanted to learn the material and pass the class, but whether that pass was an A, B, or even a C, it didn't matter. Just as long as it wasn't a D, cause a D wouldn't count to transfer in for my major.
When I get my MBA, I want to actually get a good GPA, even though by that point I'll be too far into my career to put it on my resume, but just so that I can have a degree with a good GPA that I can actually claim as a legitimate GPA (my 4.0 on my official transcript I can't really claim, since it's based on only the classes at my Alma Mater).
@taxgeek Awesome story about your late homework. 😉
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