Grading system; dance.
The grading system here at Penn (in particular, at Wharton. Though i'm just a happy College kid, not one of them Whartonites) simply does not make sense. In fact it goes against the principles of excellence. In the sense that excellence should be individual – it should be a measure of the individual’s ability, not a comparison of one’s relative standing against others’.

Bell-curved exams defeat the fundamental purpose of testing. Particularly for exams, they should measure how thoroughly you have understood the course, or how much knowledge you have absorbed; how does this have anything to do with others? How does correctly answering a few more questions than someone else mean a higher level of knowledge (e.g. A as opposed to B)? An A is an A; so what if there are many A’s? Does it diminish the value of ‘A’s? Does it mean that the examinations are not hard enough? Or does it merely mean that most of the students in the class have thoroughly grasped the taught concepts (be it due to the professor teaching well or the students putting in effort to learn)?

Tonight I danced. I’ve always loved dancing. But my operation destroyed my hopes of being a dancer (contemporary dance). But there’s still hip hop dance, R&B, and normal club dance. Sometimes there’s nothing as liberating and joyful as blasting R&B or dance songs (think “Pump It” by Blacked-Eyed Peas), and dancing without reserve to it. In my room of course. I’ve always wished to be part of a dance group (e.g. Strictly Funk or some other hip hop dance group), but I never auditioned. I never thought I’d be good enough.

Darn, why am I such a night owl.