Fall 2009 grades have been posted! I did as well in all my classes as I expected to, but unfortunately not as well as I should have done. I'm not overly concerned, considering my major GPA is still quite respectable, and my overall GPA is still on the rise (even my SJSU GPA, from after I stopped being a total flake). I should have done better in Proofs, though. The thing holding me back was my homework grades, and if I can do the proofs on the exams, there's no reason I shouldn't have been able to do the homeworks to a standard so as to not drop my grade a letter. This seems to be a recurring problem in my math courses---statistics, as well, was dropped almost a letter due to homework performance. That reminds me why I decided to be a CS major, even though the math would have me done and gone with Undergraduate work.
With grades posted, thus ends my concern with the fall semester. I am convinced I am prepared for the coming Spring 2010 semester, and have now entered academic limbo. I hope to have work to do through my internship, but that probably won't fill up my schedule---though the task they suggested might very well be that complicated, I don't have it yet. It's also a translation of already written scripts, so much of the hardest work is done. C'est la vie. I shall perhaps have to get involved in my own projects---currently revolving around learning Python---or get a jump on my Spring courses (I have the texts on order from Amazon and Intel).
A worrisome note: Dr. Beeson's CS 146 course, which was one of the Fall courses I speak of, had an automated plagiarism tool run on the homeworks. The disturbing part is that eight discrete students had the tool flag their submissions. Now, while automated tools make me a bit nervous, they seem to run towards underreporting rather than overreporting. I hope that this is not an underreporting, as eight students out of fifty-five is more than one-seventh. I have a hard time believing almost fifteen percent of students are that intellectually dishonest.