Final (ly Done!)

A big thank you to Katie for organizing our Final Art Games! I hope it was a low-stress way to wrap up your Fall 2018 semester.

Another big thanks to Daniel "Jeff Koons" Curry for all the balloon animals and balloon swords.

And thank you for being you!

They’re all in my office, FO5-234. You can hit me up anytime next semester if you’d like to get yours back. If you want them, get them before May 2019, once we get to Summer, there could be an office cleaning.

You can find me during OH or class and I can let you use my office to sift through the big pile of cards.

How do you find me?…

I’ll pretty much be at the same places at the same time next semester. On the "B" Wednesdays (AKA Weeks 4-13) I’ll be in the SOA Gallery Courtyard from 3:30 – 4:45.

My OH will be 1-2 pm on M&W. Mondays will be at the umbrella tables outside Robeks/Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at the USU.

If the new Student Success Center actually opens in January, then my Wednesday OH will be there (up in the cool 2nd floor glass thingy if possible, or down at the "Asterisk Benches" below if not) If it doesn’t open in January, then my Wed OH will also be at Robeks/Coffee Bean.

Everything is now up on BeachBored! Final points, attendance points, everything! We wound up with 1,000 points possible. Here’s how many points it took for each grade level, and how many peeps finished at that level:

• 900 points = A – 94 peeps
• 800 points = B – 10 peeps
• 700 points = C – 8 peeps
• 600 points = D – 4 peeps
• 599 & below = F – 7 peeps

Final Class GPA = 3.46

Awkward

I always feel a little bit mixed about posting these leaderboards. Earning a lot of points doesn’t make you a good person. Earning not-so-many points doesn’t make you a bad person. It doesn’t even mean that you are smart or not-so-smart.

Grades?

All grades really tell us is an amount of work accomplished in a given unit of time. Grades don’t tell us whether that work was useful, or memorable. Grades don’t tell us whether an experience changed your life or was boring. High grades don’t tell us if something just happened to be easy for you, or if you cheated. Low grades don’t specify if you were physically overwhelmed and emotionally paralyzed because your grandmother was dying of cancer. Or your dad. If I got into the foolish business of judging the quality of reasons for low grades, I might say that caring for a sick relative was a "good" excuse, and that going to a party every night was a "bad" excuse. But judging the reasons for someone else’s time budget is a slippery slope at best, and pure folly at worst. And who’s to say that all that partying doesn’t lead to strong business partnerships that build your career?

In the end, points and grades tell us everything about your college experience, except what it means to you, why it matters, and how it affects your life.

It would make sense for me to never mention points or grades at all!

Nonetheless…

Nonetheless, while there is so much that points and grades don’t tell us, some of you did earn a lot of points this semester. I think most students would describe Art 110 as a fairly easy class. Still, it does have more deliverables than most of your other classes. 2 posts/week during "B", plus the Art & (my) Life essay, so 21 things and a lot of ID cards to turn in. That’s a lot more stuff to turn in than just a couple of midterms and a paper. Even if Art 110 is easy, it’s still a responsibility to get something done every week. Some of you managed to do that. And to do some EC too. And occasionally to do something so well that you got more than full points on it.

(Believe it or not, a few years ago, it was was double the number of deliverables! 42! No kidding! Lucky for you, the students who came before you told me that 3 posts/week was kind of pushing it, so we cut it down to 2. And then I came up with the bright idea that 15-week semesters were just too long in the Millennial age, so we carved a 10-week "quarter" out of the 15-week semester, so now you "only" have 10×2 posts instead of the old 15×3! 😜

94 & 55

We wound up with 94 A’s this semester, which is awesome. Not only that, but 55 of you earned more than 1,000 points, which is awesomesauce!

Here are the 55 peeps who earned over 1,000 points…

1. Audrey Resella, 1167
2. Erica Lander, 1166
3. Taylor Wilkins, 1139
4. Katie Dill, 1124
5. Daniel Curry, 1124
6. Allison Sanchez, 1111
7. Toty Tottress, 1108
8. Trent Riemer, 1104
9. Brian Freeman, 1096
10. Hope Kindred, 1095
11. Jamie Landicho, 1074
12. Hailey Hairell, 1065
13. Sienna Sanchez, 1060
14. Jullian Lou, 1059
15. Janet Chung, 1059
16. Obeid Uddin, 1055
17. Hunter Dennis, 1053
18. Merna Shehata, 1051
19. Alex Horn, 1049
20. Natalie Hops, 1047
21. Elizabeth Moses, 1047
22. Olivia Casella, 1046
23. Stephen Kang, 1045
24. Samantha Jensen, 1044
25. Nicole Merrit, 1040
26. Jameson McEnany, 1038
27. Katelyn Tran, 1035
28. Minhyuk Kim, 1030
29. Jeff Vintimilla, 1028
30. Cynthia Martinez, 1027
31. Christine Van, 1027
32. Andrew Ea, 1024
33. Veronica Maglonzo, 1023
34. Kaelie Osorio, 1023
35. Marie Kili, 1020
36. Isela Rodriguez, 1020
37. Brandon Rex, 1018
38. Kyle Brown, 1017
39. Lesly Carrillo, 1016
40. Brayden Rios, 1015
41. Mayra Garcia, 1014
42. Justin Ahn, 1014
43. Roberto Ruiz, 1013
44. Regan Banz, 1013
45. Devlen Rourke, 1013
46. Jamie Otero, 1009
47. Isaac Embry, 1007
48. Christian Rodriguez, 1007
49. Vaesala Lesatele, 1006
50. Victoria Cheng, 1004
51. Kimberly Galvez, 1003
52. Kajiki Yamada, 1003
53. Alex Newe, 1002
54. Eleanor Meyer, 1001
55. Cristina Molina, 1001

Whether you earned an "A+", or "only an ‘A’", or any other letter in the grading alphabet, I thank you for being a part of our Art 110 journey this semester. I hope everyone took something useful from our time together. Remember that in this class, or in any other class, or in life itself, the most important things aren’t always immediately obvious. Sometimes what matters most emerges slowly over time.