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Relax the Mind, Repair Your GPA
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I enrolled to repair my GPA after advanced calculus took a chunk out of it. For once, it wasn't my fault. Adding my scores on the various problems on the final exam, the math professor made an error, which reduced my grade in the course from B to C. He acknowledged his mistake but refused to correct it. (Perhaps he was embarrassed by irony. What self-respecting mathematician can't add?) Since he was the department chair, I had no recourse.
Only after he entered the classroom did I realize he was an instructor for Principles of Chess.
To assess the students' ability, the three instructors divided the large class into three sections, and each simultaneously played the 14 or so students in his section. My luck, I drew my former calculus professor. Terrible luck for him, he lost to me, the only game the instructors didn't win. The other students, who'd hung around to witness the outcome of our hard-fought match, cheered.
Afterward, the professor took me aside. "Don't come back," he said. "You'll get full credit for the class."
It wasn't the easiest course I took in college, but it was the most gratifying.
-- Anthony E. Harris, Washington
