Thankfully I had the opposite: “So if I ace this assignment, I’ll go up another letter grade?” This does not translate to graduate work where there isn’t grading though.
LOL for me it was “if i just slam dunk all these piddly assignments, then i’ll have plenty of cushion to bomb the hard stuff at the end and still come out with a b”
me in college, at the end of every semester: “so…what would my final grade be if i just…didn’t write this paper…”
Thankfully I had the opposite: “So if I ace this assignment, I’ll go up another letter grade?” This does not translate to graduate work where there isn’t grading though.
LOL for me it was “if i just slam dunk all these piddly assignments, then i’ll have plenty of cushion to bomb the hard stuff at the end and still come out with a b”