Course 6 DONE!

We finished up tonight and I'm happy to report you're reading the blog of the "Student of the Course"! I finished out with a 99.10 grade. I didn't get it by much though. The guy right below me had a 98.98 grade. Yea, you read it right. I got it by only .12 and needless to say he was NOT happy about it. Evidently he gets it quite often and was not happy about the new guy getting it. I personally couldn't care less if I get it or not. I'm not in the school to get top student awards. I'm there to get the best education that I can get and if I should happen to get the highest score then its a nice added bonus but I don't feel that I'm better than anyone else in there. I just got the better score that particular day.

On the final exam I scored a 96. I missed one question and I'm still kicking myself for getting it wrong. It was such a stupid mistake on a question about flat rate billing percentages that I'm not even going to dwell on it. I got a 100 on every single project we worked on and on a few of them I just barely got it.

While I don't feel I'm an expert by any means I do feel I have enough of a grasp of the basics to tear my own project motor apart and rebuild it. I plan on doing so as soon as I get back from Thanksgiving break. I've already started getting my information together from the service manual and getting my parts list squared away so I can order the stuff that I'm sure I'll need. I know there's gonna be stuff that I won't know about till I tear into it but it's to be expected.

The next class on the path is Course 5. Yes I know I just finished Course 6 but they schedule us out in blocks of two courses. Half the group goes to one and half the group goes to the other and then we switch. Course 5, I'm told, is maintenance work. I'm looking forward to this class. Probably more so than any other so far. It's the class that will realistically teach me the skills I need to save myself the most money on labor for my own bike.

Until the next update sometime next week.......peace!