I got pretty cocky about grad school last year when I had three A+ in a row. This year wasn’t so great. I got an A in Distributed Systems Verification class. This is by no means a bad grade, but I had set the bar higher and now I am grumpy about it. I don’t expect to be terribly happy about my Distributed Systems Engineering grade either, thought the whole class seems to be getting bad grades (at least the grades that are posted on prof’s door) so providing that he curves, it might still not be too bad. I admit to obsessing about it too much, but I have my reasons for this and I am sticking to it.

I still have one deliverable to go, a programming and research project. So far it’s fun and I hope I will have enough time to finish it, being a quarter end at work and all. Even though I am getting flustered about not getting the top grades, I am still happy to have taken this course. For one, I actually get to program in something other than C so I am learning quite a bit. On top of that, even though I did not find some material in the course appealing, at least now I know what approach to research appeals, or does not appeal, to me. So there you go, one more learning experience.