As none of you know, all my grades for past courses are available here: click on the "Grades" tab -- note to self: allow linking to specific tab... Anyway, you may see a pattern (or you may easily not). Look at the math courses. They are divided into classes with less than a B in them, and other math courses. The ones where I got less than a B had graded homework. I really don't like homework. I understand that for many people it helps their grade, but I dislike it so much I don't do it and then my grade is 90-95% of whatever the weight of the other parts are.
This semester one of the math courses I'm taking is Combinatorics and Graph Theory. We had our first exam recently, on which I got a 70%! Ouch! I would have done 3 points (15%) better if I hadn't lost my mind test day. Looking now, the answer is simple. This atrocious grade coupled with my 12% (estimated) overall homework grade prompted an email from the professor. Ouch again! That's alright, I'll redeem myself with the penultimate and final exams.
In other news, I'm doing well enough in my other math courses. The third time I've gone to Applied Statistics was for our midterm, which I got an 84% on. I haven't gone again to get my exam back, but I'm sure one of my answers was wrong because I forgot to multiply by 2 to go from pairs of shoes to individual shoes. Shit! Which reminds me, get more pencils. Ran out on that exam and had to use a pen for that shoe question >_>
In Applied Numerical Methods, I've made it to more classes and got a 95%, which actually surprised me somewhat. I was having a really off day and forgot the formula for the Secant Method. As per usual, I didn't make a note sheet (front/back) which we were allowed to have. Then, I forgot how to do linear regression given two points! Man, I was on a role that day. I basically re-derived the secant method in the margin with a totally different formula and used that instead. Basing of my other answers and actual score, I'm guessing I actually got that one right. I'm pretty interested to get my test back :)