<p>I forgot to mention that I was .5 away from a B. Did the teacher bother to round-up my grade? Nope. No way am I getting a rec from him! </p>
<p>Regarding including it in an essay. I suppose I could write an essay about how I always take the most challenging roads in life no matter what I do and use the fact that I took the hardest math class and some other really good examples (non-academic).</p>