Grades

To whom it may concern: I don't post grades on D2L, as I indicated at the beginning. But you already knew about 85+% of how you did in the course via exams + presentations (you got all the points for those, unless I've indicated otherwise).

But our Happy class wasn't really that much about grades, was it? I thought of it more as practice.

"How do you determine a student's grade?"

     --"Well, I add up the grades for the essays, quizzes, the midterm and final. I average them out. Then I consult my stomach."

That's what the late Fred Stocking, Williams College Shakespeare scholar, told his student (later NPR reporter) Barbara Bradley Hagerty.

My stock answer is a bit simpler: I add up the points, consult my stomach and scorecards, and add more if they tell me to.

Happy holidays!