Grades don't make the man

I don't care about grades or what they stand for. I am a journalism major and have always believed that my grades won't matter as long as I have good examples of my work. You get a job in the writing world by having good internships, and you get an internship with your good clips, not a Grade Point Average.\nThis has been my philosophy since entering college -- that is until I started filling out internship applications recently. I can impressively fill out every question perfectly, that is all except one. There's one box that is stopping my applications from being a 4.0 on the Internship Application Scale. That one blank is of course, "Cumulative GPA."\nIt's not that I'm dumb, I'm really smart and I really am gifted. This isn't just my opinion, I have been tested before and I used to go to one of those gifted schools one day a week while in elementary school where we learned about the stock market, chemistry and debate. We also learned that because we're smart, but not attractive, we will run the world someday. Since I am attractive I didn't believe that, but there is no doubt in my mind that I will run the world. Back to the point, I have horrible grades in college, and not because I go out drinking or have started dwelling in the world of heroin; I wish I had that excuse. My only excuse is that I don't care about grades.\nAll my previous years in school, up until this very second while writing this, I have only been willing to do my homework if I was interested in the subject. I never tried to pretend I liked something when I hated it. I \ndidn't care that in chemistry you put some letters together and some numbers and you get salt, I'll just buy it at the store. I was never going to actually use the information in the future, all except what I learned in English and journalism. These were my best subjects and I could do them blindfolded, unless they bored me with Shakespeare or grammar. Grammar, whom needs that? What I'm trying to get at is that my freshman and sophomore years in college were so boring that I am surprised that I even have the grades I do. I didn't care about the so-called "required" classes I had to take. I didn't want to learn about the history of the press or about the supply and demand of economics. God, I hate econ. \nSo up until this year I hated all my classes, they were uninteresting and boring. I love my classes this semester, and could possible get a 4.0 if it wasn't for stupid Italian. I still don't really care about what my GPA is, but it will be good now because I enjoy doing my work -- especially now that I know the internship people do actually ask you what your grades are. I won't have time to improve my grades before I get an internship, but hopefully my examples of previous printed work will impress them enough to not really look at my grades. If only there was a box that would let me explain why my grades aren't as good as they should be. \nMaybe that box is in the clip section.