B in college class equals abject failure
Well, it certainly would not have been for me when in college. My eldest daughter has a B in organic chemistry (“ochem”) more than halfway through the semester. As a result she considers herself a failure, unintelligent and abjectly unfit to survive, never mind thrive, in society when she emerges from college.
Nothing like a typical over the top, the sky is falling, reaction. By all accounts Organic chemistry is a difficult class, so I’m slightly mystified why a B average equals doom. Of course being a dad means “I just don’t get it” (direct quote) anyway, so why would I get this?
The good news is that the barrage of phone calls, skyping and self recriminations is starting to subside, this after a unrelenting steady 10 days. So sanity may return, temporarily, to teenage daughter #1. One can always hope.