{"id":1169,"date":"2018-02-28T06:09:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T11:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2018-02-28T10:15:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:15:36","slug":"tell-me-please-college-and-grades-dont-matter-that-much-right-so-why-do-we-have-to-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/28\/tell-me-please-college-and-grades-dont-matter-that-much-right-so-why-do-we-have-to-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell me. Please. College and grades don&#8217;t matter THAT much. Right? So why do we have to do this"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1161\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw02282018-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1161\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw02282018-1-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tell me. Please. College and grades don't matter THAT much. Right? So why do we have to do \" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tell me. Please. College and grades don&#8217;t matter THAT much. Right? So why do we have to do this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I hear your frustration. College is only 4 years out of a long life, and grades should really just be a way of ascertaining that you&#8217;ve &#8220;got it&#8221; about a subject, not the goal. On the other hand, college gives you opportunities you may not have again in life, to learn intensively and follow a path of study that interests you. Grades may or may not matter for your career goals, so there is some risk in ignoring that aspect, I hope you can focus on the core learning and growing part of your time here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear your frustration. College is only 4 years out of a long life, and grades should really just be a way of ascertaining that you&#8217;ve &#8220;got it&#8221; about a subject, not the goal. On the other hand, college gives you opportunities you may not have again in life, to learn intensively and follow a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/28\/tell-me-please-college-and-grades-dont-matter-that-much-right-so-why-do-we-have-to-do-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tell me. Please. College and grades don&#8217;t matter THAT much. Right? So why do we have to do this&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}