Lifestyles of the poor and nameless

Thanks GC for reminding me to talk about my brother's grades. It went a little something like this:

Brother said he was going to show my parents the grades on the Monday after I left. He did not. The next day was election day and he had the day off but still went to school anyway. He came home very late (around 1 a.m.) and my mom started screaming at him about how he always comes home late and doesn't have anything to show for it. She said she would go to the Registrar's office the next day and get the grades. He relented and showed her a printout of his grades.

She was so offended by the grades he showed: C, C-, C+ and F from his summer courses, that she forgot that he hadn't shown grades for the spring semester either. Fortunately for him, because the spring semester was about the same as the summer (except that there, he threw in an "incomplete"--- for spice, you know?)

Anyway, from what I hear, she wailed and yelled, but there wasn't much that could be done about a semester that was already gone. So now she just prays that he gets out with at least Cs.
Brother seems to be somewhat in denial of the whole thing. He had always said that his plan was to go to medical school, but it will be difficult (at best) for him to get into med school with grades like that. Right now, he's just plodding along with no direction. We'll see what happens.