Final grades

So theoretically I can start viewing grades today, as soon as they're submitted. Obviously, my math and chemistry grades won't be submitted until after I take the final exams, but my WGS, dance, and lab grades could be up anytime now.

I don't expect WGS to be up for a while; after all, my GTF has to read 60 5-page papers, turned in last Thursday and Friday. Dance should be a short wait, because there's very little to grade and it ended on Tuesday. Now lab, I'm not sure about. It's not posted yet, but the final exam results are available on Blackboard (I got a 95). Unfortunately, that doesn't give me enough information to calculate my grade because the class is curved and I don't know what my TA's average is.

Also, a problem from my very last math assignment: "The rate (in mg carbon/m³/h) at which photosynthesis takes place for a species of phytoplankton is modeled by the function below, where I is the light intensity (measured in thousands of foot-candles)."

I can do the math on the function, but WTF does any of that mean? Really, foot-candles?