i got an A+

My first class in Project management ended last Monday and I have been anxiously waiting for my final grade. Really I knew what it would be as the instructor gives out a weekly grade each of the five weeks and it's not too hard to figure out the trend. And yet I checked every day to see if the instructor had posted it.
I always claim to have a liaise faire approach to formal education. I was lackadaisical in my attendance way back when in my undergrad years. At the MBA I took attendance more seriously but viewed the reading assignments as more recommendations than requirements. And yet, I always fretted about that final grade, checking daily to see if it was posted.
I am pretty good at the whole school thing. I view learning as a separate activity from school - you can learn without formal schooling and not learn in formal schooling. The goal of school is to make the grade. And I am very good at figuring out what must be done to earn the points that add up to that final letter. Sometimes it's class participation, sometimes it's homework, most of the time it's taking exams. Fortunately I have the God given talent that enables me to read the entire text the night before the exam and synthesize it enough to ace the test the next day. Whether or not I retain the information is another matter, after all, schooling and learning are not the same thing. And so far, in my project management program I am making the grade.