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Colby Gergen

Do Grades Matter? Episode 2

By Colby Gergen on August 24th 2010 in Untemplate 9 comments

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In the first part of this thrilling two-part series I decided that grades didn’t matter to me. That’s not to say that education and learning doesn’t matter, but that my lecture professor with no real-world experience isn’t going to contribute to any waste of time on useless pursuits or stress. Simply, society’s expectations for myself [...]

It’s Not Right

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It isn’t often that I’m at a loss for words. In fact, some would consider it a damn impossibility. Right now, as I sit here at 11:57 p.m. on June 2, I’m at an utter loss for words. This morning, I learned that a young woman, about to graduate from the high school I attended, [...]

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Do Grades Matter? Episode 1 of 2

By Colby Gergen on July 22nd 2010 in Untemplate 28 comments

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Two years ago, I asked myself a question that changed the way I approached my college education. Before my sophomore year, a time when I needed to get my grades up to avoid going to community college and then keep them up to get into my program, I asked myself, “Do grades matter?” Awful timing, [...]