Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Column: ‘Do your best and forget the rest.’

It’s graduation season for students across the country, and honors go to those who have performed well according to the most common measure in academia: grades. 

I just wrapped up a year of college classes myself. After 33 years, I found myself thrown right back into the pressure and panic to “get good grades,” along with wondering what happened to that permanent record I was always being warned about, nail-biting fears about whether I can…