Certainly, this grade is rather below expectation, and has a negative bearing on my grade-point average (GPA). Its going to take a rather Herculean effort to keep it at its current perfect standing. Or rather, it would take one, if my exams were not quite so finished.
But quite beyond the practical repercussions of this grade are the principles of fairness and justice. And it seems to me that both these principles have been grossly violated in the process of my receiving such a grade.
Now, I do not pretend to be the best communicator in the world. I personally know a handful who I would prefer before myself. That list, I also concede, is not exhaustive. Nevertheless, it is also true to say that none of those people are in my class, which then makes the grade all the more bewildering.
I suppose it would make some kind of perverse sense if the highest grade in class were a B+, whcih would then suggest that the criteria for grading were rather too strict. Yet I suspect it is not the case. Rather, I do suppose some sort of favouritism was at work and merit had little to do in determining grades.
Yet at the end of the day, I do not suppose it truly matters all that much beyond my GPA. Life moves on, and a new semester in the very elect Law Double Degree Programme beckons. It does seem that the interviews speak for my communications skills. Perhaps now I do have to set myself a goal to go to the World Universities Debating Championships, just to make a point.
More pointedly though, this particular course instructor I have not held in high regard from the first lesson. And there may yet be something to be said and done about the matter. Do not rouse sleeping serpents, for only the deadly dare slumber so openly.
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