Grading on a curve

So my GIS class cracks me up. It's an upper level undergrad course, but there are a lot of grad students in it. Probably even more than half. At the first lecture, the professor announced a curve of 1/3 As, 1/3 Bs, and 1/3 Cs. Sounds like a very friendly curve to me.

The next class the girls next to me were talking about it, and hoping that it means that there won't be any Ds or Fs. One of the girls said she'd only gotten 2 As since coming to Davis. That seems rather low to me, since she has to have been there at least 1, probably 2 years already. But what do I know? I'm used to grade inflation... And apparently some students had expressed concern to the prof about all the grad students wrecking the curve. So at the next lecture he made a statement about how the curve will be based on the undergrad's grades, and the "mean, scary grad students" (his words) will just be graded on that scale. Neurotic undergrads! whee.

Its a pretty dull class too. Oh well. Provides an excellent forum for me to practice my origami, to see if I remember the models I'd make to keep myself entertained in boring classes (read: chemistry) as an undergrad. On Wednesday I made a procompsognathus (cute little flesh eating dinosaur). Today I made a flower and an apatosaurus (same thing as a brontosaurus, my favorite dino).