<p>Does anyone feel this way sometimes? I'm a Philosophy major that just transferred to UT Austin from a less rigorous school and I took 6 hours of lower level summer classes this month. My grades for both are A- which is depressing me because liberal arts is supposed to be easy and my chances at a top 10 law school are slowly diminishing. Though my grades are good and better than the majority of the class, I still feel depressed because I was seriously aiming for an A in both and now I can't help but feel mediocre/inferior which is really tearing at my soul.</p>
<p>Lol… not all majors are easy.</p>
<p>Since when is almost completely subjective grading supposed to be easy? If you’re taking philosophy because it’s easy, you may be in for a shock once you get into the meat of it in the upper level courses. </p>
<p>To answer your question, I was upset when I got an A- in my liberal arts courses only inasmuch as it meant I’d need to make up for it with my other courses to keep my scholarship. Otherwise, I was pleased as punch to be keeping my grades in the A range. You might want to re-evaluate your metric for success, or change majors to something less subjective in nature, since you’ll almost certainly face a couple more A-s in your college career (and this may even be even beyond your own control, depending on your profs), and you shouldn’t be getting depressed over a couple of grades that are half a letter grade lower than you’d hoped for.</p>
<p>(To be fair, I was a bit put out by the one B+ I got, but that one was my own fault. :p)</p>
<p>@tito</p>
<p>Oh no I never said philosophy was easy. I just mentioned how liberal arts majors are generally easier than the hard sciences, and the reason it is upsetting me is because I’m dead set on going to a top law school, but with my grades it all seems like it’s becoming less of a reality.</p>
<p>christ an A- is still good</p>
<p>^^^Exactly!</p>
<p>@Robert: I wouldn’t presume they’re easier, as I’d never want to be a history or English major, with all of the reading they have to do, or even a philosophy major, with how subjective the grading can be. I think you’ll want to keep that in mind as you continue into your liberal arts program, so you don’t underestimate your classes in future. I also wouldn’t recommend being dead-set on getting into law school - check out the Law School subforum, and they’ll tell you why you ought to have a plan B.</p>
<p>Just remeber a philosophy degree alone is useless and that should be all the motivation in the world to do better next time</p>
<p>i’d rather go to trade school than study philosophy somewhere like Oxford, it’s not always the joke degree people make it out to be.</p>
<p>Keep getting good (yes an A- is good) grades and do well on the LSAT (the statistics show philosophy majors have some of the highest scores) and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Eh. I figured if I had majored in English/History/Something else I would’ve had done better, but I couldn’t even touch the level of passion I bring to studying my current major. </p>
<p>Philosophy and the logic you get from your major will help you on the LSAT. But yeah, I have a friend from Brown who works retail that was a philosophy major. So…have a plan B.</p>
<p>An A-?
Jeez, and I thought I was bad crying when I got a C, one time.</p>