on the world's mysteries

and by "the world's mysteries" i mean "my grades."

why is there an inverse relationship between the effort i expend and the grade i receive?

ok, so intercultural comm. mwf, 11 am.... and i've NEVER been to it all three days. i read all the material from the reader the night before the midterm, and missed more than a third of the class meetings and got a 28/30. but that just means i make good use of last minute studying. so then there was the paper. last quarter i wrote what i thought was a pretty good paper for another one of his classes, and got an A-, which made me get an A- in the class...which is really annoying. this quarter i wrote the paper the night before it was due. but even worse, i didn't actually do any of the research the paper required. all of my facts and observations were works of pure fiction. only one thing in that paper had actually happened. besides that, my "analysis" was fairly superficial and obvious because my grasp on the class material is weak because i'm never there and don't do the reading until the last minute. guess what? i got 40/40 on the paper. WHAT? are you serious? i bust my ass on von blum papers and the past couple times got Bs. I mean, honestly, i was expecting a C because i thought the paper was so shitty. but no, a perfect score.

so i think the moral of the story is: never go to class, study at the last minute and rush through your papers with fabricated evidence.