Got my first grade of the semester yesterday on a ten page paper I wrote.
Not a bad grade, either — B+/A- — and that’s my first paper of my first semester of grad. school, so I’m happy. Of course I would have liked to do better, but after talking with a couple other people in the class (people I see as smart and want to keep up with), I realized everyone I talked to had a lower grade than I did.
There is an option for doing a re-write, which I may do. The main reason I didn’t get a solid A- or A is because I slightly misinterpreted what the professor wanted.
Not bad for misinterpreting what the prof wanted. Sounds like you got a solid start on Grad school. Congratulations!
And it wasn’t a big misinterpretation by any means. Just a little off.