Rough Day
So I finished flight school on Friday - hooray! It’s been the hardest, most frustrating, most rewarding experience of my life. So now it’s all over and I get to just do paperwork and attend meetings and stand duty until I get my wings, right?
WRONG. Today I am told for the VERY FIRST TIME EVER that my overall grades are below the minimum grades for “passing” and getting my wings. 
I never failed a single flight, simulator or test in all of advanced training so I’m still really unclear on how this whole terrible grade situation came to pass. Plus, I’m completely done so there’s nothing I can do about it now.
Tomorrow I get to go plead my case with the Commanding Officer. He should almost certainly still let me get my wings, but just the possibility that the last 2 years have been for nothing and that I am apparently “in the bottom 10% of helicopter advanced completers in the last 6th months” have really rocked my world today.
It feels shitty, but I am trying to be optimistic.
