College Transcripts (or HOW did I get away with that?)

While digging for some unrelated paperwork, I found my college transcripts from BGSU today. I had a good laugh at some of the courses, the grades, and the absolute balls I had when it came to scheduling.

My grades were pretty average in college. I was very committed to my time at the college radio station (WFAL), but I was usually not very interested in anything I took that wasn’t a Telecommunications class (or was an elective in film or popular culture). I ended up graduating with a 3.03 GPA, but there are 4 C’s between the first two semesters of my college career. (If I may pat myself on the back, there are also 4 A’s in that time period.)

Somehow, I took an upper level class called European & Latin American Cinema in my Freshman year, but then after FIVE film courses in 4 years, I actually signed up for INTRO TO FILM in the last semester of my Senior year. I don’t remember the loophole that made that possible, but I was clearly looking for an easy grade. I am NOT listing my grades, although see if you can guess what class I earned my lowest actual grade in (it’s NOT the class I took twice, because that was a Pass/Fail situation and was wiped away when I retook it and passed the 2nd time!).

Fall 1994
Bio 101 - Environment Of Life
Intro To Ethnic Studies
Speech Communication
Popular Culture & Media
Intro To Mass Comm

Spring 1995
Computer Basics (!!!)
Eng 112 - Varieties Of Writing (most ridiculous class of my college career, where we spent an ENTIRE SEMESTER writing about Bovine Growth Hormone)
European & Latin American Cinema
Principles Of Sociology
International Telecommunication Systems

Fall 1995 
Intro To European American Studies
Weather And Climate
Human Communication
Intro To Statistics I
Writing For Electronic Media

Spring 1996
Canadian Film
Ethnicity & Popular Stereotypes
Hist 152 - The Modern World
Radio Announcing & Production
Video I

Fall 1996
Intro To Canadian Studies
Intro To Popular Music
Applied Research In Telecommunications
Media Effects
Oral Interpretation
credit for WOXY Internship

Spring 1997
Mass Media & Ethnic Groups
Ethnicity In The US
French Film
Intro To Statistics I (re-do)
Radio Workship
Electronic Media Management

Fall 1997
Writing About Films
TV As Popular Culture
New Electronic Media
Telecommunication Policy & Regulation
Women, Mass Media & Culture
credit for WOXY Internship

Spring 1998
Philosophy Of Film
Contemporary Popular Literature
Themes In Popular Entertainments (Graffiti As Communication)
Radio Programming
Introduction To Film (this seriously cracks my shit up, even now)

It is still amazing to me that Bowling Green is one of the few colleges in the world where you can major in Popular Culture. I had a really great experience with the Pop Culture and Ethnic Studies departments in addition to my own TCOM faculty when I was there.