In 2017, Macalester College, a pricey Midwestern college, ran an article in its glossy “Macalester Today” magazine titled “The Dog Is In.” However, those grades will remain internal, will not appear on official transcripts, and will not affect first-semester GPAs. I had a couple of times in college and law school where I was either lazy or confused, resulting in bad grades. Failure (well, not an actual “F” but, still, bad grades) was as important a lesson as anything the professor was actually teaching. Grades should be weighted, with the grades at the beginning of the year, semester, or quarter having less value in the averaging than grades later in the quarter.