It took me four years to graduate with a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree. I failed to realize until my third year that I was supposed to be taking six and not five courses per year, and when I asked Simon why he or Ellen didn’t say anything to me about my reduced workload, he responded, “I figured you were having enough trouble with five.”
I ended up majoring in English, which meant that out of my twenty-one mostly bird courses, seven of them were English Lit. My final grade point average was slightly higher than the 1.2 I received my first year, due to an inexplicably high mark I achieved in Modern American Literature, likely a transcription error by my professor because my marks throughout the year were poor.
1.2 Simon made the Dean’s list again after his second year and received ea
