This blog entry does have a good message. Good grades are nice, but nobody has every asked me about my GPA, either. I actually think there comes a moment in most people's lives where they find themselves choosing between good grades and focusing on what they are most passionate about. In grad school, I got so into programming that I started putting less effort into my coursework, and my grades suffered (a bit). I still got my MS, and nobody has ever even once asked about my grades. One of my professors was so into one of the software apps I wrote that he agreed to sign off on it as fulfilling the MS project.

In the end, you may have to let go of grades to truly follow your passion. Some of the top grad programs are set up in recognition of this.

Now that said, I have no idea how or why this blogger needed to sacrifice her time or sanity to get A's in English. I double majored in English and Math, and I think I got one B in lit the whole time (my overall lit gpa was someting like a 3.85, because there were some A- grades in there as well). It took a bit of doing, but really, you don't have to go to the wall to get A's in a most lit classes.

The Math, on the other hand, was really tough. I got about a 3.5 in the major, because the undergrad calc series throug differential equations made sense, and I could handle applied math pretty well. But math theory (real analysis, abstract algebra, and so forth) was hard as hell. I really struggled for even a glimpse of understanding of this stuff. I studied hours every day, spent hours working in student groups and in office hours solving problem sets, giving it everything I had, and I still got B's in plenty of these classes. In the end, I'm glad I did it, but I could tell I was not Ph.D material in Mathematics.

I agree with edw519 - unless you're doing serious math or science, don't tell me about your super high GPA.