springtime feelings in the middle of December Recently I requested my final transcript from Bishop's. I knew all my marks already, of course, but I didn't have the final document representing the sum total of the five-and-a-half years spent completing my degree. In the past I've shared my marks with everyone here, so I won't completely re-hash last year's results, but I was noticing some interesting things that I want to mention:

• My cumulative average for the period from 1992 to 1997 was 53.97%.
• My weighted average for the 2004-2005 school year was 71.94% (see what you can do with a little motivation?).
• My cumulative average including this past year was 61.74%. (I brought my average up 8 marks - not too shabby.)
• Last year I repeated four classes that I had previously failed.
• Last year my final mark was higher than the class average in seven of the eleven classes I took.
• In the years from 1992 to 1997, my final mark was higher than the class average only eight of forty-three times.
• My highest mark last year was 80 - ten marks higher than the class average.
• My lowest mark last year was 58 - two marks lower than the class average.
• The final words on my transcript are: "PROBATION REQUIREMENTS SATISFIED". (That's good, since I've now graduated...)

Seriously, I was just getting rolling. I should still be in school.  | ¶ 8:00 p.m.