I think that people don't get A's where I go to school. I know that I do my homework pretty solidly, and had some shit professors first term who couldn't teach if their life depended on it, and there don't even have a solid B. However, this semester is much better, just annoying "busy work" and crap like that. Taking classes that interest me and of things I'm good at makes life much better. (Half my schedule is french, then political science and communications versus Math, the most overcomplicated phys.ed class EVER and literature. yuck-o) A's are definitely not "given out" and most students here work hard for B's.

That said, my "lowly" 91 in high school left me as one of the "retarded kids". Not even a fookin' A, you needed a 104 to be in the top 10%.