Blog 38: English Class So Far

Okay, so I am a sophomore and I am a Mechanical Engineering and pre-med major.  Pretty amazingly busy right?  My classes are very, very difficult and time consuming and most people wouldn't even attempt to try to have this type of major and then continue onto medical school.  One of my easiest classes that I am supposed to ever have to take is freshmen year english right?  Well apparently not.  Apparently I  have A's in Junior level math, Chemistry, and Engineering classes but my lowest grade is by far in English.  I just can't understand how my lowest grade is English right now.  I just received my grade my ARP grade and apparently I barely passed?  I consider myself a rather intelligent person being in the honors program for a top 20 engineering school in the country while also taking pre-med classes.  I honestly just can't believe that Freshman English is going to bring down my GPA right now.  Hell, if I get a B+ in this class it brings my GPA down.   I understand English classes and writing skills are very important, however, it really pisses me off when my friends have to write 5 blogs per quarter and then write 10 pages worth of papers and they get an automatic A because they completed the work.  The English department needs to get its shit together and decide whether they are going to grade easy or difficult because it doesn't seem fair to me that grades can be so subjective during a freshman course.  Upper level courses I can understand that, but not freshman level courses.  It doesn't make sense to me when I read one of my friends papers from his English class and it is absolute shit and he gets an 88% on it.  He was laughing about the fact that he never did anything in his class and wrote his paper in an hour and a half and then gets an A in the class.  It looks like I have to take more time out of my already packed schedule and go to the writing center every flippin' day to try to make up for this.  I really don't know what else I can do.  I felt like a made an extremely compelling argument that made perfect sense.  No, I didn't explicitly write out every single detail.  That could take 20 pages.  Oh well.  Shit happens right?  Apparently we get to do a revision? I don't know.  I hope so because this grade needs to change.  Its time for me to get off my soap box now...