Alpha Dog

Subject	Course Title	Final Grade
CLP 4433	Psych Tests & Measurement	A
FRE 1121	Beginning French II	A
SOP 4004	Social Psychology	A

So, in other words:

STRAIGHT A'S MUTHAFUCKA!

It's been quite a while since I was able to experience this amount of academic-related satisfaction (I passed my French lab as well). But the best part is, that's not it. There's more.

For my social psychology class, we were given two paragraph assignments. By paragraph assignment I mean we were required to read a well-known published and peer-reviewed psychological article and then summarize, in one regular-length paragraph, the hypotheses, methods, and findings of the researchers. The two articles were a Middlemist et. al. (1976) publication on interpersonal distance at men's urinals, and a Cohen et. al. (1996) article on the southern culture of honor and male aggression.

My paragraph on the first article was approximately 95 words, and I met with my professor (hottie teacher, if you recall) in his office to review the paragraph and make it more concise (and therefore less superfluous). He told me where and what kind of unnecessary data to cut out, and said that my paragraph was one of the best and included it with a few others in a handout to students as to how their next paragraph assignments should look.

So of course I'm elated, because I was on the fence for a little while since I'd began questioning whether or not psychology was my calling. His telling me that my assignment was one of the best really boosted my confidence.

Anyway, I turned in the second paragraph, feeling pretty confident but wondering if I could have done better. A week later I receive this e-mail from hottie teacher:

Sarah,

Just wanted to let you know that you wrote the best paragraph by far. Maybe a little wordy (all good students tend to be at first), but you actually did what you were asked. Very nice.

Have a great Holiday.

Dr. [Hottie Teacher]

P.s. Let's talk careers/research assistant stuff soon.

I mean, how fucking stoked am I? Not only was my assignment the best (by far), and not only did I get an A in his course, but he wants to discuss my being his research assistant.

Everything is going fabulously right now.

If only I can keep track of where the cats keep hiding my work shoes...