I don't know what Asian fail is any more

So I am almost finished my university exams. For some reason, I have left 3 of my 4 exams so far with the feeling that I would not do as well as I thought I would. This is and will continue to trouble me until I can see my grades (which hopefully prove my instincts wrong). So anyway, I looked up what an A is for UBC (University of British Columbia. I'm not going to assume you know where this is unless you are from Canada) and I was shocked. I had been led to believe my whole academic life that an A was 86-100, a B was 73-85 and a C, well I never got to find out the conversion for a C thank (marks) god. It turns out, there are now +/- in conjunction with the classic letter grades. UBC's mark conversion system goes as follows: A+=90-100, A=85-89, A-=80-84, B+=76-79, B=72-75, and B-=68-71. I will not do the other letters because no one should ever have to stare into the dark cold abyss that is their academic mediocrity. Besides, would it really make a difference to you if you got a C- or a D? So, if you haven't noticed already, the range of grades that constitute a letter grade of an A in university are wildly different from that of high school (6 percent is a lot for those of you who think otherwise). This news actually made me very happy for a moment, as I could still finish the semester with straight A's even if my finals didn't go as planned. But then, if you think about it, 80% is just not the same as 100%. I would be kidding myself if I was totally satisfied with getting stuff wrong 20% of the time. So I guess the Asian fail mark remains at anything below 95% until further notice. Until then, I will still believe in the green light (loads of money), the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster( metaphor for studying more), stretch out our arms farther(another metaphor for studying more)... And then one fine morning-so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past(metaphor for how you can never change the wrong answers after the test). See how I just used a little Gatsby to class up the post. What now. What now.